Solid week that. 
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Thank you.
Feeling stronger as a result of consecutive weeks building volume.
I signed up to Manchester Marathon, Oct/Nov when easy pace was about 4:55 - 5:05/km less than 122bpm heart rate. I thought maybe 3:12 - 3:18 with a prefect build would be possible.
However, I got a nasty virus around the 18th November that lasted two weeks, then a few days were I okay but followed by another illness that I now think was covid. That took 3 plus weeks to recover from (covid or not.) Suddenly I’d lost 50s per km for the same HR.
So from January its been a steady build. I wasn’t seeing much progress to start but its starting to come, I think. 
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6hr 42 this week - not bad considering I missed Monday/Tuesday with the lingering effects of the bug I picked up and still not quite 100% really until today.
The weather was bloody awful today - no way was going to get Mrs T out so went to the gym for a 2 hr HM distance run (bit less for Mrs T) - could bear another hour as probably would have done 30km outside if the weather wasn’t so bad
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Yeah… I feel that given my semi recent training history. It can take a while or long while to get back to the normal you. See above post.
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I saw that coming and I needed to switch the long run from Sunday to Saturdays to help the taper work. This weekend was a good weekend to do it. Terrible today after around 11am.
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Nice.
What was the split? Activity wise… SBR?
Mostly bike of course; roughly 7 bike 1.5 swim 2 run in terms of time. In terms of effort, 2 hard runs, 3 hard bikes and 1 hard swim.
Actually maybe all the runs were hard to some degree; threshold, vo2 intervals and threshold. But not long.
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Solid
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Saturday 16k easy run with zl
Sunday 6k easy run with zl
Will be taking it easy for a few days as I have another random midweek 6hr ultra on Thursday (5.5k and 140m ascent per lap, plan on doing 10laps)
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Made it over 8 hours this week after a swim, bike & run today. Dragged myself outside on the trails and just about avoided the rain, got shelter from the wind in a couple of places but where I thought I’d get a bit more has been massively deforested in barely 3 weeks so is now wide open 
Pretty even split between running & cycling and just the token effort in the pool today, but will pick that up in the coming weeks.
Supposed to be giving blood tomorrow and could do with a rest day so will do that, and fairly easy this week. Still planning on doing the half next Sunday as a training run at around 70.3 pace.
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Finally back to it after a week off sick. 6 miles with 10 x 20secs hill intervals and a 2 min recovery.
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Trained twice today, sponsored by Virgin Media’s outage.
5k run first thing.
22:04. 65m elevation.
Lunch, Deadly Dozen workout (paging @Chriswim).
1.5km run, hard.
3 continuous sets of military press, bicep curls, kettlebell deadlifts.
1.5km run, hard.
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Was about to ask you for a status report, just been talking to a friend about it.
I’ve not trained gym with this much enthusiasm for >10 years. Slowly getting some strength back, and enjoying it.
Did the 60x single arm snatches straight into the clean and press as a finisher yesterday 
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Been going to tennis coaching. It was 90 quid for 8x90 min sessions so pretty good value. There has only been 2 of us on the course and the other lady isnt very good so its been hard to get much practice.
Today she wasnt there so I had 60mins 121 with the coach, just focussing on what I wanted and playing against him. Was brilliant. Knackered at the end of it.
Pretty close to getting my serve spot on.
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I’m definitely getting stronger, and similar to yourself enjoying the journey.
I’m nowhere near ready though (mind you, I’ve got several months yet).
My body shape is naturally a bit stockier. Welcome relief than trying to get in running or triathlon shape.
How about yourself?
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Monday am 6k easy run
Monday pm 30 mins strength training
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So much for recovery…
NUEL Masters ripped my arms off this evening. As I clocked up to 3000m I was like, fuck this, my arms don’t work any more. I was skipping 50s to keep going but I was done
I vaguely remember a few lengths easy. Everything else was hard! 
Man they are fit. Racing in Essex at the weekend apparently.
3500m I think. I turned up early too…
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2025•44 - 18km with 15km about Marathon Pace
Felt good.
2km warmup
1hr14 for the 15km at 4:56/km
1km cooldown
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In the gym this morning. Somehow my 8th pre-6 am workout on the trot.
Anyway, strength.
2.5k on the rowing machine, then bench press, military press, core work and seated leg raises.
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