John Keyes

Three turbo sessions in a row, but this is the first one I’ve felt stronger in. I was pleasantly surprised at how the legs felt. Not getting ahead of myself, but it’s nice to be able to measure some progress in terms of just how the legs feel.

I made a boo-boo with my measuring; I paused my Garmin while I changed my viewing from Chuck to The Sufferfest. Of course I forgot to restart it, so I lost eleven or so minutes of data. Not a big deal at all, but niggly all the same.

I’ve a day off tomorrow, and then a nice outdoor spin planned for Tuesday.

I’m just looking for an excuse to use the new embedding feature of Getty Images:

Didn’t make it out this morning, so did a tempo session on the turbo instead.

Sniper Reloaded provided some distraction, not as much as I would have liked but some.

The Turbo awaits again tomorrow. It makes little odds to my legs where they are pedalling, but my brain longs for the road after the past few days.

I had a great nights sleep and a clean bike so there was nothing stopping me today.

I got the finger out and did a turbo session today. Let’s just say I got through it. Many times I asked myself was it worth it, and many times I called myself a wuss and decided to knuckle down.

Memories of Stinger (Paddy Ryan) bringing the pain in the Portlaw Woods in pre-season training came flooding back. His smile grew proportionally to our grimaces, but come the first game of the season we’d be flying (fitness wise at least).

This was the first day of a three day block, tomorrow was supposed to be an outdoor spin, but I’ll have to get up early if I’m going to squeeze it in. If not I’ll just do an equivalent turbo session. Please let me get up early, and please let the roads be dry.

Pretty annoyed with myself right now. I missed yesterdays session due to time restrictions somewhat of my own making.

I spent between two and three hours just cleaning the drivetrain. It was manky. Everything is now spick and span, but as we know that won’t last for long.

I only finished cleaning the bike today so I’m skippng this session too as I need to catch-up on some quality sleep.

All of this means I’ll be out of kilter by a few days on the plan. I’m annoyed with myself for this, but I won’t try to make up the time as that may lead me down the road to injury.

Tomorrow will be treated like Week 2 Day 3 and I’ll go from there.