As last week was a really bad one for running, I decided to get going on some intervals early this week, so did a late evening 6x1km interval session. I was running 1km slightly uphill at about 4:05 then 1km slight downhill at about 3:35 pace. It wasn't too bad really, the weather was much cooler and I felt like I could go on. It was 14km total at about 4:40/km average.
Tuesday I ended up doing nothing, I forget now why, I guess I was tired, but who knows!
On Wednesday I got up at 6am and ran my 10,5km route at 4:57/km pace. In the evening I cycled to Nieder-Olm and it wasn't crazily full for once, so I got 3000m in before heading home. It was a good session with the pool gradually getting emptier as time passed as I got there about 90 mins before it closed.
Thursday I stupidly went for a run in the evening after eating quite late after work. That meant that my stomach was all over the place, but I got through it anyway, even if it was very slow at 5:17/km for 10.5km.
Friday: I knew that I had a lot of cycling left to do if I would do my 300km for the week, so I cycled 75km on my road bike in the evening. It was really nice and at a decent clip too. I attacked the Muy de Dittlesheim which was fun too, 1min at full power. I got back feeling good and ready for my real long ride on Saturday.
So as prep on Saturday, I found a GPS online and downloaded it. I wanted to go to Odenwald so found a 80km route from Mainz into the Odenwald. Apparently I didn't check that it was for Road bikes, and I spend a lot of time on quite questionable paths, but usually it was ok. It was slow going though, so my average was just over 25km/h. I got to Zell and the road I was supposed to take was closed, and I had 85km+ on the clock already, so I turned for home. I didn't want to mess around too much, so headed straight for Darmstadt, from where it would be an easy 40-45km home. I saw a sign saying it was 7km to Darmstadt, then a left turn saying 10km to darmstadt, so I continued on the shorter route. After about 1km the road ended at a motorway, with a bike route going on through a forest. I took the bike route, but it was a bad one, very bumpy and lots of sharp stones everywhere. Sure enough, I got a puncture after 1 or 2km. I stopped and changed the tyre, but that went again a few hundred jaw breaking metres later, leaving me in the middle of no where. I decided I had to push my bike to the nearest town, Roßdorf, and hope there was a train station there. It turned out there wasn't one, but I could take a bus to Darmstradt, then a train to Mainz and Tram home 🙁 I had at least cycled 120km, so it wasn't a dead loss, though it was a lot of effort and 2 inner tubes and my cleats ruined.
On Sunday I had to ride again to get 300km in, so I rode 54km early on. My planned run was chucked and I cycled to the pool later for another 3km swim. I needed another 20km to get to 300km, so in the rain, I cycled an extended route home, ending with 302km for the week!
Running: 35.1km (1261,1km YTD)
Cycling 302km (4979,3km YTD)
Swimming 6km (99,85km YTD)