Hardcore paddling!
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Which one are you, mate?
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Did some weight lifting. Havent done any for a while and dropped the weight down massively. However, can already feel that the leg DOMS are going to be baaaad tomorrow.
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The grumpy one not doing anything in the middle!
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10km evening trail run with my mates. Just about got away with no headtorch but won’t be long!
Has the Garmin Connect overview changed?
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weights, and a short evening run 
… too soon after tea 
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Cake eating. End.
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Did a swim. it was shit 
Pull buoy to isolate the Frankle.
Did the first and penultimate 100m in 1:35.
Mostly did 200m in 3:50
Whole set felt like ‘bands’ as I wasn’t moving my feet at all.
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10.3km this morning - 8x1k with 2mins easy between
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Had to back off the higher intensity stuff. HR was at max 198, but output was nearer 70-80% not 100%. Central nervous system is clearly still a bit knackered even though I feel mostly fine. RHR had got up to 60+ (I’m usually 48-52, training load dependent). So sticking to single session days and keeping it to just strength work or zone2 running. RHR has been dropping slowly day on day since the last high intensity session I did on Thursday so going to let that guide me. Hard to gauge as its not something you recover from within a week or two!
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What pace would you hold for them FB?
Rowing has exploded amongst my friends who are competing in Nov/ Jan ( hyrox) it obviously gets you fitter no doubt but the “ best “ 500 m times on repeat won’t help you out in an event that is 60% fatigued running.
I’m going to try today see how the calf is
I’m going nice and easy at 2:20/500 pace - kept all 8 within 0.1sec of that. I could go quicker but this isn’t a race just a challenge so no need to burst a blood vessel
But long gone is my ability to hold a 2min pace or quicker on long rows - age is a bitch!
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I know you will, but be careful and listen to your body. I’ve had this with my really big ultras. Within days i’m ‘feeling’ fine. Could run again (when injuries had settled down) quite quickly, when doing steady, pretty flat runs. But whenever i asked the body for anything more it just didn’t have it.
I had this deep seated fatigue that lasted a good couple of months. Threshold and really hills stuff was just off the cards. So i just took it easy, ticked over with Z1/2 type stuff and let the body tell me when it was ready, not the other way around.
In fact i put my best 100 miler together about 4 months after my first 100 miler that caused this deep fatigue. I barely ‘trained’ but just ticked over. But the body really responded and gave me a really solid performance on that 2nd one.
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Age and weight for me
I know how old you are and all credit to you.
Once I hit 70 kg my run goes north ( when my right calf’s working!) but my row/ ski times go south I’ll only be holding 2:15 per 500 ( 4:30 km) for ski and row in Jan as any faster than this is non economical and what you gain I’ll 100.% lose x 2 on the run.
Stick at your big month!
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Mrs FB did about 9.4km this morning at 2:30 pace - she’s the same age as me, so for an old bird she’s well up there in a/g world rankings over various challenges.
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Seriously unmotivated at the moment. Got Tenby in less than two weeks, have seriously completed no training for it and now I’m back from holiday I just don’t have the mojo to get ‘stuff’ done. Mrs has taken the kids to the library and I now have an hour ‘free’ and all I can be bothered to do is sit in the sun and drink coffee!
Need to have a word with myself
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It’s grey here with rain coming.
I’m BoredAF.
CBA to drive anywhere for a day out, as I’ve a 400 mile round trip tomorrow 
Looking at the “dirty” oven and debating cleaning that 
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its possibly a bit too late to worry about Wales now 
I’ve got a dodgy knee so know I shouldn’t run but really feel I should run as I can feel the pounds piling back on (not that they were missing in the first place). @gingerbongo started his taper weeks ago, so you’ll be fine 
I’ll have a nice easy (hopefully it won’t be raining) ride in the Peak District hills on Saturday a couple of swims and only some short runs over the next week or so
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I’m not really worried about Wales. I know I’m not going to gain any fitness for the day and if anything will add unnecessary fatigue. I mean I started tapering for Wales at the start of July 
, I’ll get round, it’ll be painful and long but I’ll finish it.
Just need to put my big boy pants on and get out of the lazy funk. I think it’s being at home for the summer, kids are at home, wife on maternity. All out of the usual routine, no structure etc
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I’ve got better at listening to my body but I’m sure amongst most of us here, we are great at telling people that, but awful at following our own advice
After a telling off from my PT friend and seeing my RHR going up I did decide I needed to back off. Its just working out when I can start to build it back in. I don’t feel fatigued though. Hyrox in October and November and that isn’t very low intensity!
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