How are you doing these ?
1hr commute ride home. Fairly steady-ish.
Did a swim.
It wasnāt pretty
Iāve rejoined my old gym, with the view to improving my overall body conditioning and I wanted to start swimming again. So today I was back in the pool for the first time in probably 2, maybe three years. It was really bad. Barely able to do a set that would have been my warm up, back in the day. Everything just felt wrong, out of balance, timing off. Itās going to be a long old haul back.
So 850 meters, all as 50m reps, mixing up drills with a bit of full stroke.
Spin class at lunch.
Token weekly swim tonight.
11km 55min jog.
26Ā° here
1hr steady commute ride home. Legs a bit battered from the 5 whole lengths of kick drills, last night.
Fuck all here
Iāve wanted to sit on my sofa and drink beer telling the world to fuck off for three days
Just ordered a KFC
Friday 6th September
06:44 - 60 minutes easy bike ~ 150 watts
*my bike is probably the worst its been at this time of year in all the years Iāve rode a bike, i.e since 2008. Feel like Iām starting from scratch, a month of building some volume back should help. No road worthy bike at the moment, just a frame with a single chain ring on the trainer. *
13:25 - 30 minute 6km easy run 4:56/km (work lunch time)
Got stopped by police and told to cross the road as there was some one on the side of the pavement I was running on with a knife. Road was closed to traffic on the way back but I was allowed to run past. Eventful. It was hot and humid.
75mins gravel bike.
243W NP / 219W AP.
WHOOPS
Twas only meant to be a fun pre-breakfast spin
Safari Park & knifemen?
This is why they invented treadmills
Another swim. 20x50m mainly doing catch up and full stroke, trying to keep my stroke long. Better than Thursdayās set.
Why is it when I make my mind up to make an effort with training and start somethign structured, I either get ill or injured before I have chance to start.
Done my back in. Only saving grace is I dont think its serious. My quads/hip flexors have gone very tight and I can feel them pulling kn my pelvis. Hopefully a bit of massage and stretching and they will losen up
Itās the law, or so it seems!
Supposed to be a 3 hour run - sacked it off after and hour and a half - I was soaked, the dog was soaked both of us were miserable
Nothing in the legs today either - knackered before I started
I think you did well to get that far!
If I was the hound thereād be a special present for you in your trainers tomorrow
They now smell so bad he wonāt go within 10 feet of themš
Week 5 back in the game. Managed 8.5 hours this week, with 34km running.Leg feels good now .
Still hot - donāt think the temperature has dipped below 30C yet, even at night.
Club duathlon training coming up again on Tuesday evening. Well, itās called training but in reality itās a race to the death over 2km/30km/2km. Determined to beat my hamster-like power from 2 weeks ago (195W), thatās the A goal for the week right there. Figuring out how to make the light stay on the Garmin might help, it will be dark & last time I hadnāt got a scooby what power was until the end & slightly gave up.