Day 6 – Becoming one with the wind.

We were back to the grind today after our rest day.  Today was more of a love the island type of day.

We started the day with a 3km ocean water swim.  As I was donning my wetsuit, my wetsuit decided it had enough training and fell apart.  I had salvaged the wetsuit a couple of years ago and sewed it together before one of my IMs and was able to use it for another year and a half.  I think it is done for realz now!  No chance of salvaging it this time as the hole is incredibly huge.  I was able to still swim with it this morning but I do not think I will be able to use it for the rest of the camp.  Only if it hung in there for another two days.

We came back to the villa for another delicious breakfast before heading out for our bike ride.  The route was changed and shortened to account for the 35+ kph winds with gusts in the 40-50kph range.  The first part of the ride was straight into the wind.  I kind of swore at the wind, and decided to embrace it and just deal with it as I really had no choice.  So the ride really was not that bad, helps that there were no crazy ascents or descents and it was more of a human-type ride.  Since it was a shorter ride I was so tempted to add in an extra 20km for an extra point but decided against it at the last minute and keep to my plan of sticking to the schedule.  After the ride I then went out for a run with Alicia and it was my best run to date.  I think I am getting my running legs back which is exciting and it was great to have Alicia push me along.  I think I may have gained a couple of new training partners when I get back home! ;)

After the run, the pool at the villa looked so inviting so I decided to go for an extra point and do a swim set: 20x100m on 2:00.  I tried 1:45 but the pool is a little on the slow side so I reverted to the 2:00 min pace.  Initially I was going to do another 3km swim but aborted that idea as I was getting tired and feeling lazy. Oh…and I have to make a correction from my post for yesterday – I swam the IM set yesterday with Robyn! Oops!  A bit of brain lapse there!  I ended the day with a yoga session led by Thomas, a friend of Coach T, and it was a really good session.  It was so nice to spend a few minutes to just relax and stretch things out a bit.  Also was nice to do yoga outdoors under the sun.

Day 6 done! Two more to go!

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