A BUSY WEEK

Hiya there, Less than 145days now and things are coming together nicely. The past week has been really good for a variety of reasons which always helps motivation and that’s what I really need at the moment.

TRAINING
The highlight has to be a the first real open water swim of the year, yes Sunday morning 7am I found myself slowly edging my way in to the local lake for a 1h15 swim and after 10mins of conditioning I acclimatised to the water temperature and got the swim done. After about 4.5kms the swim was up and I was rather happy to be getting out the water only to discover that I could hardly move my jaw…frozen! Now that I’m warmed up I’m really looking forward to getting more open water swimming done. It’s a lot better than following the black line at the bottom of the local pool.

Also a nice 6hr ride that started in the sun and finished in the rain! Guess the upside is I got to test out my new Prologue Windproof Rain jacket … it works really well. So now I hope I don’t need to test it again.

In total it was a 22hr training week which I’m really happy with.

LAB TEST
Well Wednesday was a busy and I had a date with the treadmill in the Lab! Yes another Max & Sub-Max test and loads of lactate level blood tests. Not wishing to bore you but the important fact that came out of it is that my VO2 increased by 15% but more importantly my point 1 Lactate Threshold (LTH1) is still reached at the same Heart rate as it did in February but this time it is 2km/h quicker than in February. So I think we’re doing something right!

NUTRITION
So logically if I’m training 20-25hrs a week between my full time job I’m going to have to take my nutrition seriously. I was put in touch with a London based nutritionist, Carrie, and after a long chat and run through of my weekly program Carrie quickly pointed out how my current diet was falling horribly short of my requirements. Basically I need to be taking in about 800gms of carbohydrates a day in other word I needed to increase my daily intake by about 300gms of Carbs a day!


WHATS NEXT?
Accelerace Mid Wales Ultra Triathlon, more details will follow shortly.



Cheers Nino