Monday
Zo
Swim and spin Monday. 2.8km swim with ECR, GF and DH. AB and GB joined in at the end. Very busy pool, hung around at the side of the pool until swimming lesson finished and grabbed that lane.
Jumped on a spin bike and had no-one around me again. This is becoming a bit of a worrying habit. Maybe I have lost the ability to talk to people. Certainly working and living on my own is driving me stir crazy.
Tuesday
Tough swim set, everyone was talking about the 8 * 100m after. The target times were tight. Swam so hard I had sore elbows by the end. 3.6km I think.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Thursday.
Back to the real world and back to work. Really horrible night and a major effort required to load the bike into the car to head for the club turbo session. No way was I going to do the post turbo run though.
Friday.
Rest day.
Saturday.
Swim time trial. Raced against Gordon Friel. I went for taking it steady and concentrating on big turns. I think we dead heated in 5m59, I need to up the effort level a bit. This was taking it too easy.
Club run, tough old run, out to Blairforkey Drive, up via 9th hole of BofA to do the ressy backwards. Then over the mtb course. I thought I had put in a good shift and then AB and JS came in 10mins later after doing Jennys run.
Sunday.
70km bike in about 2 1/2 hours. Wee Braes and Big Braes with AB Jools GF and ultra runner Phillip. Impressive seeing GFs legs spinning round on his fixie when descending the Braes.
Back to the real world and back to work. Really horrible night and a major effort required to load the bike into the car to head for the club turbo session. No way was I going to do the post turbo run though.
Friday.
Rest day.
Saturday.
Swim time trial. Raced against Gordon Friel. I went for taking it steady and concentrating on big turns. I think we dead heated in 5m59, I need to up the effort level a bit. This was taking it too easy.
Club run, tough old run, out to Blairforkey Drive, up via 9th hole of BofA to do the ressy backwards. Then over the mtb course. I thought I had put in a good shift and then AB and JS came in 10mins later after doing Jennys run.
Sunday.
70km bike in about 2 1/2 hours. Wee Braes and Big Braes with AB Jools GF and ultra runner Phillip. Impressive seeing GFs legs spinning round on his fixie when descending the Braes.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Fleeced
Zn
The life of a professional athlete continues. I could get used to the life of no work and lots of training.
Went out with APs cycle group for the first proper group cycle of the year. The group was AP, Jools, Brenda and whispering Geoff and I. Geoff was on a new bike which had a puncture, wheel and saddle issues. The initial plan had been to do the wee Braes but as we approached them the weather was looking a bit dodgy so instead we went strange side roads that AP knows which took in Thornhill and Kinbuck. All in all 50km in 2 hours.
Fleeced in the title refers to the fact that I decided to get my non latching front door fixed. I called a guy in, he was here for five mins advised me to just keep on using the dead bolts as he would not be able to get any parts for the lock and a new lock system would not look good. So £78 to be told just keep doing what you are doing.
Thankfully the swim session was a good one. 3.5km of solid hard work. I was bringing up the rear of the lane with Big John, Peter and Alistair Preiss. I initially did not feel up for this but the joy of getting through 5 * 100m with dead turns perked me up. Back to Bob's afterwards to eat his crisps and drink his beer.
The life of a professional athlete continues. I could get used to the life of no work and lots of training.
Went out with APs cycle group for the first proper group cycle of the year. The group was AP, Jools, Brenda and whispering Geoff and I. Geoff was on a new bike which had a puncture, wheel and saddle issues. The initial plan had been to do the wee Braes but as we approached them the weather was looking a bit dodgy so instead we went strange side roads that AP knows which took in Thornhill and Kinbuck. All in all 50km in 2 hours.
Fleeced in the title refers to the fact that I decided to get my non latching front door fixed. I called a guy in, he was here for five mins advised me to just keep on using the dead bolts as he would not be able to get any parts for the lock and a new lock system would not look good. So £78 to be told just keep doing what you are doing.
Thankfully the swim session was a good one. 3.5km of solid hard work. I was bringing up the rear of the lane with Big John, Peter and Alistair Preiss. I initially did not feel up for this but the joy of getting through 5 * 100m with dead turns perked me up. Back to Bob's afterwards to eat his crisps and drink his beer.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Spingo
Zn
On holiday for a few days to use up some days. Went for a big start to the week
Went for a run around the Uni loch prior to joining the gents who lunch for a swimsuit swim. Followed this up with the regular swim and spin sessions at night.
Over 5km of swimming today.
On holiday for a few days to use up some days. Went for a big start to the week
Went for a run around the Uni loch prior to joining the gents who lunch for a swimsuit swim. Followed this up with the regular swim and spin sessions at night.
Over 5km of swimming today.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Ice, Ice Baby
Zm
Damn, I need to pay attention to where I am in the alphabet thing.
Went for a cycle with A N Other. Coldest I think I have ever been if you exclude the time I cycled to Rainbow slides to shake Simmon Puttocks hand when it was -5c.
Did the Carron Valley route backwards. Some ice on the road and lots of ice in the water. I should have taken a picture, the frozen water in Carron Valley Reservoir was spectacular. I promise to take more pics.
Cycle was done at a leisurely pace.
Damn, I need to pay attention to where I am in the alphabet thing.
Went for a cycle with A N Other. Coldest I think I have ever been if you exclude the time I cycled to Rainbow slides to shake Simmon Puttocks hand when it was -5c.
Did the Carron Valley route backwards. Some ice on the road and lots of ice in the water. I should have taken a picture, the frozen water in Carron Valley Reservoir was spectacular. I promise to take more pics.
Cycle was done at a leisurely pace.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Saturday 29th January and catch up
Wednesday - 32 mile road bike up to Yetts of Muckhart and back to Stirling. Group run in evening, did not enjoy at all as no energy and constantly at back.
Thursday, MTB for 1.5 hours
Friday, nothing !
Saturday, early morning tri club swim session, short fastish sets for one hour. Followed by run from uni to rezzie. Nearly cancelled skiing holiday after loosing control of my running coming down a steep hill and tripping myself up, now have a nice bruised right leg and a tad sore if I sit down for too long.
Thursday, MTB for 1.5 hours
Friday, nothing !
Saturday, early morning tri club swim session, short fastish sets for one hour. Followed by run from uni to rezzie. Nearly cancelled skiing holiday after loosing control of my running coming down a steep hill and tripping myself up, now have a nice bruised right leg and a tad sore if I sit down for too long.
3 day catch up.
Thursday
Zm
Swim Lactate Threshold test number 2. More pretty graphs. I had my head much more together this time. Managed to maintain the 5sec increase in pace each 150m. The final all out set was controlled all out. Started with the thought of aim for 37s for first 50mkeep the pace up 2nd 50 and all guns blazing last 50m. Pretty happy with the time of 1m48.
Night time went to the Turbo session. I was really struggling to get my heart rate up at this. Until we did the out of the seat stuff the best I could manage was abround the 125bpm. Wimped out of the run afterwards, partly cos I would have had to run in my fleece. Must pack a second t shirt on Thursdays.
Friday
Rest day. Went to see Black Swan at myvue. Enjoyed the film, just weird enough.
Saturday
Swim session was very busy. Took a tow off Christian all morning. Session was all short stuff so probably quite a low total distance, I'd guess about 2km.
Picked up a parcel from the PO. Turns out it was a duplicate delivery of power gel starter kit, result.
Arrived at the run session as everyone was heading off. By the time I got out I could see the back of a runner disappearing up the hill and the back of another heading round the loch. Opted to chase the hill back. Turned out this was the easy group so I did my own thing until hooking up with everyone at the hole in the wall. Ressy run with new path and mine wood. Nice run.
Zm
Swim Lactate Threshold test number 2. More pretty graphs. I had my head much more together this time. Managed to maintain the 5sec increase in pace each 150m. The final all out set was controlled all out. Started with the thought of aim for 37s for first 50mkeep the pace up 2nd 50 and all guns blazing last 50m. Pretty happy with the time of 1m48.
Night time went to the Turbo session. I was really struggling to get my heart rate up at this. Until we did the out of the seat stuff the best I could manage was abround the 125bpm. Wimped out of the run afterwards, partly cos I would have had to run in my fleece. Must pack a second t shirt on Thursdays.
Friday
Rest day. Went to see Black Swan at myvue. Enjoyed the film, just weird enough.
Saturday
Swim session was very busy. Took a tow off Christian all morning. Session was all short stuff so probably quite a low total distance, I'd guess about 2km.
Picked up a parcel from the PO. Turns out it was a duplicate delivery of power gel starter kit, result.
Arrived at the run session as everyone was heading off. By the time I got out I could see the back of a runner disappearing up the hill and the back of another heading round the loch. Opted to chase the hill back. Turned out this was the easy group so I did my own thing until hooking up with everyone at the hole in the wall. Ressy run with new path and mine wood. Nice run.
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