I'm sick and 70min ride

Sunday 1st June 2008 A.D.
AM;Cycled for 70minutes on exercise bike, heartrates around 90-120, so very low intensity.
PM; 200 ab crunches.

WEEK 11 (26/05/08-01/06/08);
Volume; 70min + 32hrs MR work. Sessions; 1 +MR
Best RHR; 46 bpm
Sleep; 42hrs (6.11hrs per night but includes 9 hours saturday night) *29
OD/LSD; 70 minute ride??? Does that count?
Races/Time trials/LFD; NIL
Reps sessions;NIL
5-point strategy measures;
1-long run/ride etc done?-yes achieved kinda...
2-2x reps/race/timetrial sessions done?-no failed
3-Abs done?-yes achieved.
4-cycling done-yes achieved.
5-swim done?-no failed

Comments;...
Second consecutive week of mostly less than 6 hours sleep per night, combined with my meter reading work and training for my new callcentre job in the evening, struggling to get enough money to keep my family going, Jacob getting a runny nose, and then last night my wife Kathryn and I both started to get significant flu symptoms, today resting heart rate is like 56 after being down to 46 earlier in the week on a few days, and I feel very low on energy and am going through the tissues every minute or two. Basically I am pretty sick with the flu.

Yesterday was a pretty hairy day trying to meter read in the middle of continual lightning,thunder and heavy rain storms, on one street I felt like the lightning was striking all the way down the street and the thunder claps sounded like waves breaking or a death/thrash metal gig they were so loud and close. Was very keen to get back to my car then.

So training wise this week is another "no-show" pretty much. Maybe next week???
Perth Half marathon (and Comrades) are on June 15th, and Lake Monger 10km on next weekend, so hopefully by then I will be recovered, work,bills,sleep mix will be a little improved, and I can put some good races on the board. As soon as I am healthy again I will be endeavouring to hit the track. However the resting heart rate readings of 46bpm (x2 this week), suggests that the training I have done in recent weeks combined with my meter reading work has given us some fitness momentum, so if I can get that down to 44 or better a PB in the Perth marathon on July 6th is very likely.

I will try and run 30-40km on Dave and Nathans Munda Biddi 100km trails "race", next weekend, and that may well be my last major long run before the Perth Marathon on July 6th. Be mostly high intensity 22km or less stuff then, and a few days of taking it easy before the race. That should ensure I am tapered enough, although I barely have anything to taper from at the moment, have a few more weeks to change that...If my new job continues to be a success (Did 3 shifts, and felt like I as getting there with the calls on Friday night), I should be able to afford to take a few days off from the meter reading early July, and then of course hopefully a big holiday in October to celebrate Kathryn and I's second wedding anniversary, with a return to the Melbourne Marathon high on the list of things to do, details are online as of today @ http://www.melbournemarathon.com.au/

So for now its back to my tissues (blowing my nose every few minutes, and maybe the Fremantle Dockers can brighten my day
for a change...or not...its groundhog day and pavlichs poster in the last quarter is really getting terribly annoying...so its back to square one, back to the drawing board etc etc etc...Hopefully next week will be about as positive as the Dockers 3goal winning first quarter...at least...