It’s seemed like a long time coming but we finally did our last training session before we start the two week taper before the first competition of the season. I don’t necessarily need to taper for a 48km ride but I wanted to practice the routine with Estrid and get to know what works best for her.
We did a lovely 20km ride, we had planned to do this on Cannock chase, but unfortunately my van is in need of repair and waiting on parts so I didn’t have a tow vehicle (fingers crossed it’s ready in time). So we just did the best we could from home, which is more road work than I would have liked but the sun was shining and we enjoyed a slightly slower paced training session.
We did 1hr 20 of walk, 45mins of trot and 4minutes of canter. I would have liked to have the walk and trot the opposite way around but we have to work with the situation we find ourselves in, and I wasn’t about to pound out miles and miles of road in trot so our average speed was 8.7kph. Now I’ll have 4 5km hacks, one schooling session and one water treadmill left before we, hopefully, get our 2025 season underway!
Beth Endurance 