Black Caviar

AM
14km Easy Solo The Bay

Crazy busy day, so out at 4am. Even 30min earlier than usual makes a big difference, ouch!

PM
10x400 (1min jog) avg 70sec. With James Nield Park

Active recovery, felt easy, a few weeks ago this session would've been hard off a standing recovery.

Ran without socks for the first time in a long time for the time trial yesterday. My feet are covered in blisters today, hope they recover in time for Saturday, I hate wearing socks when racing.

On the positive, I've dropped the 5kg and for the last few days I've been sitting comfortably at race weight, just need to keep myself out of the gym and off the ice cream for one more week.

Up late watching Black Caviar, Luke Nolen stopped riding with 4 strides to the post, very lucky to sneak home ahead of 2 fast finishing French sprinters. It reminded me of the ultimate Woopsy Daisy when Adriana Pirtea started celebrating too early and Berhane Adere sprinted past to take the win and cost Pirtea the equivalent of 30 years Romanian income. The real highlight of the race though is when Pirtea passes Copey at the top of the home straight complete with blood dripping from his nipples.