The Last Supper

This will be my view for the next two+ weeks.

Tomorrow I will fly to Sierra Nevada [Spain].  This camp is notoriously savage; just over two weeks of pure physicality at 2320m above sea level.  Nearly all of our sessions will be on the ergo or in the weights room.  With four sessions a day (and sometimes more) this will be a real test of my body.  My memories of this camp last year are painful, you end up in a dark place - living from session to session, hoping to hang on.  Very few people will complete the camp without injury or illness, the challenge is to be one of those few.  Deep down I love it.

The camp will be a huge strain on the body; it is this strain that your body adapts to and thus gives you a greater work capacity, and will mean you return a significantly better athlete.  As the camp is at altitude the training is substantially harder, meaning you have to re-adjust the 500m split time you pull on the ergo.  The programme is also intensified with more sessions, bigger mileage and less rest.  You have to be time efficient; eat, row, sleep becomes a 3 hour ritual. But the time I put in at Sierra Nevada will be worth double that time I put in at Caversham - I just hope I can survive!!

Today I came across this on the BBC website.  It's a short article and interview with Jurgen.

For my last supper I will be having Spring Chicken with Rice.