Took this hip for a 3 lap (6.3km) test drive round St George’s this morning. Not going too bad, but still quite a bit of ITB tightness.
Interestingly, my heart rate was responding well to changes in running intensities: something it had not done for a quite sometime before my 3 weeks R & R. I was previously battling to get it up, which is a strong indicator of overtraining! Now I could again easily push it to 153bpm (my theoretical max) and hold…
Also my sweat levels are back to their normal high, indicating good body thermal control – anti-inflammatories are of course notorious for messing with this.
Nonetheless it’s going to be a long hard build to 42km…