The last week of hard training and the most interrupted week since I signed up for LEJOG. Last week ended with a toothache that turned out to be an infected wisdom tooth. Cue 5 days of antibiotics and then having the tooth taken out on Wednesday. This meant no training for a couple of days to allow the extraction site to start to heal.

I am finding the sessions since my FTP increased much harder, especially the VO2Max sessions. My coach is very encouraging; whenever I think I’ve not performed as well as I should he tells me I smashed it. I think that some of the sessions are meant to be too hard and I just need to do my best even if that means I don’t hit every interval.

It was good to get out on the bike at the weekend. I cannot see me riding at anything like the pace I went at on Saturday or Sunday on the LEJOG ride itself but it’s good to know I have the power there to call on.

A week of tapering and then it begins. I just want to get on with it now.