EC 2007 day 11 (Dave C's blog)

Activities day at EC. Good news and bad news.

The good news was no epic bike, run or swim. The bad news is I had to face my two betes noire - 400m IM and 200m kicking. I have never done 25m, let alone 100m, of butterfly. And I positively suck at kicking. My 10 year old son destroys me in kicking races (and has done so for several years).

Anyway, like every other epic challenge, these two had to be faced one at a time. Somehow, I got through them. I'm pretty sure I set a new slowest time at EC for the kicking. But, thankfully, there were one or two others equally out of their depth (so to speak) at butterfly.

There were 10 events in all spread over the day. In contrast to the past 10 days, they could all be classified as fast-twitch events. For example, 1km TT, 1 mile run, press ups (have to mention here Bevan's new EC record of 100), standing jump and the stone throw. We finished with the particularly sadistic wall squat (back against wall with thighs parallel to the ground). It was, literally, last man standing (or, at least, squatting). Take a bow Clive.

Overall winner of the day was Mark P - showing great consistency over the course of the decathlon.

The day only served to remind me that I really am tired. The fall-off in power over the 1km TT was scary. But all to be expected of course.

BTW, we had a good Q&A session last night led by Scott and Gordo. Great opportunity for us to put our questions to two of the best minds in the business. Interesting also to talk about what we should expect and do, on the training front, over the coming season given what we've been through.