Didn’t you do 25km the day before?
I did nothing yesterday except schlep loads of kit around to an athletics meet that had a car park 1km away and generally do 5hrs of ‘supporting’!
Did volunteer to help with the javelin as they were short (amazing how many parents are suddenly ‘busy’ on their phones when the shout for help goes up 
).
It was pretty interesting, I was the ‘tape anchor’ as that seemed a whole lot safer than being a spiker. 
Just 15km with the dog
Forecast said high teens last week and I was hoping to get used to running in the heat 
Now it says low teens!
Its crazy how much difference a tail wind makes on perspiration levels in a hot climate. Remember it very clearly running along Ipanema. Like running in a vacuum, no air movement and sweat just pouring off.
I got a 120km and a 127km some what gravelly rides in Friday and Sunday last weekend and a 10km run with some gym stuff in there too. I’m now on enforced rest/upper body only till Sunday to hopefully let this cortisone injection do its thing 
First day back to work WFH and I essentially haven’t moved in ten bloody hours!
I’m exhausted
Need a lie down to think about getting a workout done…
Trained twice today, and ate like a horse throughout the day.
First thing, 30 minutes in the gym.
1.5k tempo row.
3 ascending sets of calf raises, military presses and sit ups.
Lunch, 30 minute spin class.
11.4 night run with mates. 1:14 and 195 mtrs vert
Work routine messed up, I’ve been playing with training calendar for days but I can’t seem to see how I’m going to get half of the plan done this week 
I think I can swim this lunchtime, run in the evening.
Tomorrow is a complete write off with 8hrs travel
Thursday I’ll be knackered in the morning so my bike commute is in jeopardy, probably get two swims in though.
Friday I have a 2hr45 brick so that’ll have to be at night when I’m knackered
Saturday no morning training due to kids which usually means I don’t train during the day due to stuff
So I have like ten hours to compress into Sunday.
Edit 1
I need to sit back and look what slots I have and pick the sessions I can reasonably achieve …
Edit 2
Okay revised plan for the week is imperfect but at least have my head space sorted:
Mon: bike 0.5h (easy)
Tue: swim + run 2h (hard)
Wed: lift + short run 1h (easy)
Thu: commute bikes + swim 3.5h (easy)
Fri: Threshold bike + run 2.5h (hard)
Sat: Tempo brick 2.75h (hard)
Sun: Tempo bike + long run + swim 4.25h (hard)
= 16.5h
Hmm. Maybe I should skip the 2.5 bike commutes and bring the threshold bike forward.
when you do the Concept 2 Workout of the Day (WOD) and check the honourboard to find you’re #1 in the world in your age group. currently. 
Was hoping to get a turbo in today but it’s slipping away and now the meetings are deadlines are piling up and I have to take LO to athletics later.
‘Rest’ day
That challenges Chris swim”s recent full distance heroics!
“ in the world “ is something you don’t hear very often, a very very well done ( are you the only entrant )!
Guess I kind of spoiled that
ha! I just checked and I’m now down at #5 so still not too bad. the problem with the C2 rowing challenges is that it brings out those who have rowed for many years and have the long levers I don’t have. I’m more of an explosive rower typical of a rugby player, rather than a fast endurance one
not a rest day.
Volunteering is quite hard work when you have multiple age groups on track all night!
Anyway, I had a meeting canned, so was able to jump on Zwift. Did the Wandering Flats in Maruki Island. 25.6km. 43:42. 191 av watts
Nice going that’s a nasty enough WOD, very easy to get over exicted on the initial intervals.
yep. I did a 1k warm up rather than going full bore into a 1min session and blowing myself out later
Firstly team, sorry, it’s been a long time been a long lonely…
Sorry, I needed a break from all things online.
Anyway, Lake District reccie of 1/2 X bike route today: Ambleside, Kirkstone, Ambleside, Langdale, Blea Tarn, Wrynose, Hardknott, Eskdale Green, Hardknott, Wrynose, Blea Tarn, Langdale and back to Ambleside. Only 56 miles, took about 6 hours incl stops back at car for water, then plenty of phots and sight-seeing, … that’s in my defence (spelt correct?) M’Lud/Lady. Weather stunning, non-stop blue sky… yeh sunshine, yeh heat, yeh hyper me!!
Found it quite tough, not much bike training over Winter. Coming back over Hardknott, that 1 in 3 at the top for what seems like 100m into a headwind, will be honest with you all, was nearly crying. At 59 my strength seems to have gone (lack of training I guess). My brain said oh can we get off and push… I had to be really assertive and tell it to f off! Last time this happened at Etape in 2007 127 Pyreneean miles blah blah blah.
Anyway, what shocked me most was not my lack of strength, but the fact that I was scared to get up any speed (I used to be a descending daredevil) due to the what seemed like shit road surfaces including potholes like moon craters… forget the traffic, avoiding those requires 100% concentration and can be quite a challenge when a car appears the other way on opposite side to pothole grrrrr.
Anyway, just wondered what the word on the street is re whether folk are using fatter tyres similar to off-road grit/ cross to cope with the shit road surfaces?
It’s the time of year imo.
Council will sort them out by June. 
Hah! I thought that was March budget end - sadly tho this year haven’t seen as much going on (“Oh we have an idea, if you want to pay to drive on the road we can privatise it for you and it will be much better” 
)
