Tour Down Under

Last week was a fairly big training week as we were stationary in Adelaide. I did 86 km of running with 2 long runs of 20 km each at 4:30/km pace and a 10x1 min speed session. I’m really enjoying my running now, especially not following any kind of schedule and just running for as long as fast as I feel like. As we are staying near the see front I’ve also been swimming quite consistently in the sea with a total of 8km last week and a nice speed session in a local pool.

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Sunday was the last day of the Tour Down Under. There’s been some good action at the tour, but the big continental teams were controlling the race closely so none of the breakaways succeeded and all stages ended in a bunch sprint. The sprinter on fire at the moment seems to be the German Andre Greipel from the High Road team. He won 4 out of the 5 stages and brilliantly defended his 8 seconds lead to win the overall classification from the Aussie Alan Davis.

Team CSC were ripping things apart at the front on Sunday

The Adelaide circut provided some tight racing

The King of The Mountain classification winner - Philip Gilbert

4 - times stage winner and the overall winner - Andre Greipel on the podium with Indurain