The last few weeks have been quite strange. There's no doubt a marathon, no matter how much training you do, takes its toll. My legs feel fine now but it took 3 weeks. As well as the legs, the general feeling of fatigue was a bit strange.
Given I trained hard all the way through the winter and didn't have any downtime apart from short spells due to illness or injury, I think I deserved an easy 4 weeks.
I've been back out on the bike this last week. I've been up around Kimpton and over by Luton Hoo. It's been all zone 1 work and just about getting the legs spinning.
Last night I took in the hill up from Luton Hoo and down the other side to the Lower Luton Road. Then up to Peters Green and home via the downhill to Batford and up Westfield Road. I felt strong and happy to be back out.
Over the next week I'll kick off my training programme for the Forestman Half Ironman. 1mile swim, 50 mile bike and a 13.1 mile run. Its in September and although the running will be fine I need to build endurance in the other sports and obviously have the capacity to stitch them together and complete in less than 6 hours.
So watch out Kenny's back and this time he's wearing trunks.
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