Taking a more leisurely lead up to Coast to Coast this year, and knowing that I am only doing half, has seen me enjoy all of my training, but left me slightly under-trained for the event!
Instead of slogging away with early morning starts, lunchtime training sessions, and weekend brick sessions like last year, this year I’ve relied almost entirely on gentle lunchtime runs, the occasional ride around the bays (on nice days, heaps of those in Wellington!) and a few weekend “long” runs.
Hopefully though, my Coast to Coast training “cramming” long weekend two weeks back has set me up to get through the run and cycle in one piece!
This was how it went:
• Friday – 12k run in Christchurch – wearing my favourite Icebreaker GT 150 Dash zip
• Saturday – 100k cycle from Queenstown to Glenorchy and back – wear testing our soon-to-be-released bike shorts and the same Dash zip
• Sunday – gentle trot along the shores of lake Wakatipu – again in the same top
• Tuesday – Coast to Coast run leg – yep, still in the same Dash Zip (which I also slept in Monday night)
• Wednesday – hobble around the office… then 2 hour massage
Fingers crossed that will do the trick!
Even after all of that, my Icebreaker top was still smelling sweet!
Just ask my flatmates, who I threw it at when I got home. “Ew that’s gross” quickly turned to “oh my god, it doesn’t smell. At all!”
- Kimberley Gilmour, HR Manager, Icebreaker Head Office
