Long Weekend, 7 days to go

Saturday is first day of a long weekend here. I'm not planning any mind blowing training this week as I have just a week to go and I'm looking to avoid injury and conserve energy. I did a quick 30K ride on Saturday morning including a 10K hill climb session, not hard just seeing how long a gear I could push up the Policeman's hill 5 times. I then finished the 20K time trial circuit including the hedgehog etc. Total time was over the hour and average speed 26kmph. So nice and easy and no major dramas. I was a little tired on the first climb but settled in once I'd done it a few times. I tried as much as possible to stay in the seat, I also timed myself dropping to the lower chainset but it was slower over the 1km climb. I'll stick to my usual strategy of pushing as big a gear as possible in the race as long as I can keep cadence sensible. I'll need to check the course out next week to see where I'm looking at > 6% climbs as this is the point where I'm hovering between big and small chainset.

I did a nice easy 10K run on Saturday afternoon, again it was warm around 24C but I took my time and finished in 59 minutes. I had some foot pain on my right foot on the sole. I've had issues there before and I think it was down to pushing a big gear up the hills earlier in the day. It was more painful on the rocky paths but nothing that a hot water bottle and some rest won't cure.