Sleeping beauty and Peak Power

21 January 2013

Well we all have good days and bad days.  Today I took a day off work to sort out some personal admin issues which resulted in me feeling rather stressed this morning however I did make some progress.

Just after lunch I then had the chance to get my training done but I found myself with 2 options:-

  1. Bed
  2. Erg

Hmmmm I pondered for a while – bed or erg bed or erg?  Yep went for the bed option and 3 hours later woke up.  A good choice if I do say so myself.  That’s a good 3 hours still adapting and getting faster in my book.

So on with todays piece a little later than planned in the afternoon.  A good chance to release some frustration and hit some Peak Power interval training.

The temperature in the garage was a little chilly just above freezing so settled into a 3km warm up then into:-

20×7 stroke max efforts on 200 DF (rest for the remainder of the minute)

All above 90% which was the target although still not able to beat my 917 watts score from last week.  Anyway target achieved and another tick in the box.

Tomorrow is my last brutal session before a mini taper into next weeks racing.  I have started to have a think about racing now and had a peak at the entry list for my race.  It would appear I am seeded third so could come away with a medal although the plan is to race the clock and pull the fastest possible 2km I can on the day – if it is faster than others then great, if not then fine, I will settle for a PB.

Race head is now on – time to focus.

Ollie Osborne

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