Target: 13:36
Achieved: 13:58
So this week was quite a challenge and very testing. My flexi hours was changed to office hours and this on a very tight week where failure was not an option.
I live by the motto “Improvise and overcome” as well as the fact that losers look for excuses and winners find opportunities. I would have to improvise and find an opportunity in this week 10.
I made a decision to do a big chunk of work in the week. I have learned a very big lesson in the last couple of weeks and that is to keep up the work rate in the beginning of the week. One never knows what can happen later on in the week.
I packed my tri-bike and home trainer into my car and left home early in the morning to make sure I could start my training in the basement of our office at 6:00 am. This plan seems to be working fine as I ended up clocking 7 hours from Tuesday to Friday.
This was mostly done in base and I decided to do 7 hours of riding on Saturday thus leaving Sunday as a family day. I had some time to fix some stuff around the house and even ended up washing and servicing both my MTB and Tri-Bike. We then went for a movie after having some coffee with some friends.
We arrived home and I made some pancakes in front of the TV while we watched another movie. I am now sitting in bed and updating my Blog. This system seems to be working so well that I will apply it for the remaining 6 weeks.
I ended up with plenty base lots of altitude training and 2400m of ascending. I totaled 330km of riding and this while doing my work and spending plenty of quality family time.
I recon I achieved my goal this week and look forward to next week where I have to clock 15 hours and this is also our longest week. I am waiting for some pictures a friend took while I was riding in the basement and will upload as soon as I get them.
This week in conclusion:
Make the time you have count. When you train, train hard and when you work make sure to do it right the first time and never neglect the family. I will do an update in the week on my noble steeds as well as my awesome wife without none of this would have been possible.
Live your life like a writing a book. Make it worth reading!
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You have a wife witch!! ;) Better make sure she does nto read this! A quick edit may be in order. Good weeks and quality training lift the spirit no end. At least the hum-drum of the basement will make you appreciate the vista's of the Epic route!
ReplyDeleteGood luck for the week ahead!
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Roons
Nice to see how you could reshuffle your schedule and still make it work.
ReplyDeleteI am still trying to find the ideal training schedule, between juggling kids and work and the wife putting in more work hours than I do I am struggling to make the training work.