Hardly The Schedule Of A Geriatric

Back on the bike, which went well, although it still had to rain on me of course.

Dog training tonight. L assures us that she’ll no doubt be zonked on the settee when we get home, being the geriatric thing that she says she is. That is when she gets back from her punishing training schedule - swim this morning, gym and run this evening etc etc. Which is hardly the schedule of a geriatric.

At training, MD is awesome.

(Wednesday 3^rd June)

Recovery, Training, Tapering... In A Week

How do you fit recovery, training and tapering into just six days? Tricky. Today is day two of recovery, then I hope to be back on the bike on Wednesday. I’m out on the ale tonight and we have close to gale force winds anyway. So I’m well out of it.

I suppose real (professional) athletes would be recovering in style. Lying in bed, listening to the wind and the rain whilst having someone rubbing baby oil into their throbbing calves.

I make do with a few post-work pints in the Brunswick and a meal at the pub that’s not called the Royal Standard anymore. Where they have burgerised their entire menu and taken off the pies, chillis and curries. So we won't be going again as none of us eat burgers.

(Tuesday 2^nd June)

The Six Percent

'Less than 6% of adults in UK can run a mile non stop'

L quotes that to me. Now if I’d quoted that to her, she’d have come back with ‘but I’m sooo unfit...’ I know her so well.

Now if only 6% can run a mile, how many can do a sprint triathlon? And how many can do a half-ironman? Then again, how many would want to?

I wonder how I’m going to get my stiff legs through dog training tonight, then find out I won’t have to. The weather returns to Outlaw Half mode, once more becoming wet and windy. Dogging is cancelled. It's too windy, it will blow everything over and probably blow our little dog off the equipment.

I rush home and hobble out into the rain to chuck some grass seed down instead. You have to take these opportunities.

Then we get the foam roller out, I have some restoration work to do before Sunday.

(Monday 1^st June)