The Menu is a weekly post detailing what I plan to do over the coming week, it also looks back on my previous week and my learnings from it.
First week back since Shepparton 70.3.. For my race report click here
1. Pulled up generally ok after Shepparton 70.3, mild right calf soreness. Will get some treatment on that today.
Trispecify Post Shep!
2. This week, well until Sunday I am doing a no bread and no refined sugar week. Its meal 2 and i’m battling already!!
3. Planning on doing the Team Up – Race 2 on Sunday. Sprint Distance. Should be a nice hit-out.
4. Managed to get along and watch the Gatorade Race 1 this weekend in Elwood. Cheering some of the MPTC/Trispecify members on I was witness to many a transition fail and win (being the pros). So will do a little countdown of the three worst transition fails witnessed on Sunday.
3rd place) The man who tried to leave T1 just in his speedos, no tshirt, no helmet. Didn’t have them in transition at all. Gold.
2nd place) A man who swam only in budgy smugglers and proceeded to take them off and get fully dressed in T1, including shorts, t-shirt shoes and socks.
1st place) The man who got into T1, got out of his wetsuit.. then produced a coffee in a takeaway cup and drank it like he was at a cafe before starting on his bike leg. Clearly needed his fix.
And on to the program..
This week is the beginning of a harder intense based phase throughout December which is going to ideally move me from 70.3 fit to Ironman fit. I assume it is going to be taxing!
Monday:
AM:
PM: MPTC – Open Water Swim 2.5km
Tuesday:
AM: MCC Hills
PM: Trispecify – Swim Skills Session – Will update photos etc afterwards. But focusing on pack swimming, sighting, going around buoys etc.
Wednesday
AM:
PM: Trispecify Aquathon (Swim/Run/Swim/Run)
Thursday:
AM: Trispecify Run Group
Friday
Day Of Rest!
Saturday:
AM: Ride T2 3 hours
PM: Open Water Swim at Mt Martha
Sunday:
AM: Team Up Race 2 – (500m/16km/5km)
Best of Strava Last Week
Shepparton Half Ironman – Didn’t come out perfectly on Strava. A fast flat Half Ironman course on a hot day in Shepparton.
Seldom do things go perfectly in a race. But this one went pretty well.
Stephen.
The Race To Be Fast 
There was also a bloke on Sunday who did the the whole ride in a full wetsuit because i assume he forgot a t shirt? Nuts! Unsure if he continued on the run but the sun was out by then and i was hot enough running in skins so he would of been well and truely cooked!