Light training

It's now 1 week before the onslaught of the Highland Fling. 53 miles from Milngavie to Tyndrum up (and I do mean up!) the West Highland Way.  It's at this stage your training becomes light as you try and rest you body, let it recover from the hard training but don't let it think you've finished or it will shut down for a holiday along with your brain.
On Friday I headed off to do one lap of Chatelherault - hardly even a warm up so I ran it 4 minutes faster just to make it a bit of an effort but not too tiring.  The sun was shining through the trees and I saw my first bluebells - beautiful. In the next few weeks I expect the place to be covered in them and I'll walk round as part of my recovery from the 'fling and get some pictures.
But the day was so nice I decided to venture out on my bike for the first time this year. I went out for just an hour but that was plenty for my first ride. I could feel the different muscles working but I didn't push it. Getting out on the bike on such a glorious day was amazing and I will have 7 weeks from the fling to get bike fit as I have a 70.3 Tri coming up. I deliberately planned my season to start with a run focus, shift to Tri and finish with swimming (10km swim in September). That should reduce the chances of picking up an injury from doing the same thing all the time.
Later on I headed out for 13 holes of golf with my son. A bit of a warm down however I was tired when I woke up this morning and I won't be doing any training today in order to recover despite it being another glorious day. I have booked my sports massage for Tuesday to allow me time to recover from that before the race. Isn't life good when the sun shines? People smile more and places can be transformed. Enjoy it while it's here. 😎