30 minute spin class. That’s ya lot.
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55 mins of various local hill repeats - surprised myself with how good I was feeling
3 Strava segment pr’s and 3 seconds
Quietly chuffed about that
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We met the outlaws for morning coffee today in Blandford Forum and I ran back, 31km mostly off road.
It’s something I have wanted to do for years but never got round to.
Everything was going fine for the first 20km and then suddenly ascending a gentle hill I felt my right calf go again. (@APM I know, I know 
). Not as bad as 3 weeks ago, but enough to make me slow down and really shorten my stride.
The next 11km were spent shuffling like an octogenarian, but I made it home.
Was up against a hard deadline as the Tesco’s man was bringing stuff at 3.20pm. No phone, wife out doing other stuff… that added a certain frisson but I got back at 3.15 
Knackered now, definitely not built for distance & confirms my feeling that 21km is a sensible limit!
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The first half of your 2026 will be spent on a physio bed and doing calf raises, Fruity.
Anyway, gym this morning. First time in 2 weeks!
Rowing, shoulders and glutes.
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He was doing mile repeats the other day unless I am mistaken.
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Honestly yesterday morning it felt 100%, to the point I hadn’t even considered it might flare up again during the run.
I think it’s only a small muscle strain, although admittedly seems to be trying quite hard to turn it into a big one. Will take it easy for a while longer 
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18km with 700m of vert with Mrs T and the dog Around Macclesfield Forest
Included going up “the Matterhorn of Cheshire” - Shutlingsloe - seems to be slightly overegging it somewhat given the actual Matterhorn is 4km higher - it’s slightly Toblerone shaped though I suppose
beautiful day
not sure if the road sign was a reference to very lethargic pheasants or not
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Monday: Run with pram, 12.5km, 188m elev. 1hr05.32, 5.14/km. Av HR 149, Max 162. rTSS 120.
Tuesday: Trail Run, 12.4km, 297m elev. 1hr9, 5.33/km. Av HR 138, Max 156. rTSS 117.
Weds, Thurs, Fri off. Felt unwell with temperature. However booked IM Wales and Slateman 70.3.
Saturday: Train Run 19.4km, 464m elev. 1hr45, 5.25/km. Av HR 147, Max 162. rTSS 189. Felt fine throughout. As soon as I finished I knew I’d overdone it and felt shattered all afternoon.
Sunday: Run with pram, 8.7km, 164m elev. 47min12s, 5.26/km. Av HR 141, Max 161. rTSS 79. Stopped short as was tired, so took the toddler to a different park. Hoping to feel better for a bike ride tomorrow instead.
Weekly TSS 504
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Pretty poor week for me, but the race yesterday, recovery and travel from last Sunday means more recovery is probably better and my watch has been insisting I’m strained for a while 
I did manage the reps on Wednesday and a few short bikes as well, but swimming is pretty much dead to me until around April next year 
Not racing next weekend so will see how I’m feeling.
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Weird week
10 hours
FOUR complete rest days !
Delights include a swim in a tiny hotel pool
3 x 1 hour bikes
Squat challenge session and a hyrox sim at 12.9 kph run av.
one week left out here… missing home now
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Was a de-load week but came down with illness.
Two days sick where I just went for a gentle walks, four walks over the week of about 26-27 minutes each, hence the 1h41 other (walking.)
7h15 — all easy
x1 – 13.2 km 70-minutes
Surprising that the weekly total added up to 10 hours.
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Reassessing plans, trying to find year round consistency. Any tips?
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Had a cracker today. Didn’t do my long ride over the weekend as was feeling tired from being a bit ill last week. Decided weather today looked good, so would set off 7am at 9 degrees C, back 11am when it would be 13C, as I’d got things to do later.
Got my mid weight jacket on, toe covers, full finger gloves, leg warmers. Thinking I’ll be a bit warm, but can always take the leg warmers off later. Was fine temp setting off, clear blue sky and sunny.
Set off and noticed pretty soon I was at least 10% down on normal power. Spent 25mins gradually climbing, and sweating buckets, but not feeling overly hot. Got to Fox House, down towards Hathersage and noticed there was a cloud inversion. Thought it’s going to get a bit chilly. Should have followed the sunshine at that point.
Rode through to Castleton gradually getting colder. It wasn’t chilly, it was really cold, grey and misty. Putting more effort in to try to keep warm made me sweat more, travel faster, but not get any warmer. Fingers freezing, I thought at least when I get to Winnats Pass, I’ll warm up, hopefully passing back above the cloud and into warmth. But then there’s another 30mins or more still down round in the cold to head back in a homeward direction, before I hit more hills to warm up.
Stopped at the bottom of Winnats, realised it was a bad idea to carry on and headed back into Castleton.
Felt terrible, freezing cold, not right at all. Could have made it the hour or so back, but would have been an unpleasant situation. So found a coffee shop and had to get the wife to come out to get me!
Car was reading 3 degrees when she picked me up, no wonder I was cold! Think I’ll give it a bit more time to get over the illness this week before venturing too far from home.
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45 minute spin class.
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I went back to crossfit again. Shit the bed my shoulders are weak.
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Gym first thing.
2 x 750m rows, military press, bicep curls, deadlifts, sumo squats, seated calf raises, calf raises, thrusters.
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I’d possibly be more concerned about the levator ani 
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50k Boxhill bike loop home, as it was a lovely evening.
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Only went to a blimmin gym didn’t I! Was weirdly a bit nervous, as it’s not my natural environment whatsoever. Have a basic programme a mate built for me, but still didn’t feel confident enough to hit the free weights up. Have sucked down my ego and am going to do one of the sessions with the staff at the puregym to go through lifting for beginners and i’ll pick it up from there.
I did actually quite enjoy myself though. It’s nice to have a bit of variety. Gonna make the most out of that step machine this winter as well to prepare for a big race I have in mind next year.
- 6 mins @ 12kph treadmill
- 5 mins row - 1197m
- 5 mins stretch
- 3 x 12 trx row (tricep variant)
- 3 x 12 ea single leg glute bridges
- 5 x 40m 24kgs kettlebell farmers walk (30 r)
- 3 x 12 ea step ups on 20 box
- 3 x 5 wide arm pull ups
- 5 mins @ level 10 stepper - 24 flights
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