Training - What Training?!

Yes, @Poet is being a right fanny.

It was humid today mind. I did a Bergen Run (20kg) 10x up ‘Hill Lane’ (300m @ 11.7%). Totalling 446m ascent in 7.4km at 8:58/km pace in boots. The guys building the stone wall on the hill must have thought I was nuts; they certainly didn’t say anything to me! Best ascent was 3:04, slowest 3:21.

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To the mums out there, I’ve done nothing all day. :zzz:

To the dads, I’ve been looking after my 3yo all day. :hot_face:

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You’re supposed to be my LD inspiration… cmon, I went further, faster and when it was hotter :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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Need to get hold of some cycling endurance in the next 11 weeks or so. 60 miler today started off ok then slowly but surely the watts dropped after the first 90 minutes, disappointed at best

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Shut it you :rofl::sun_with_face::dark_sunglasses:

Now, beers, or a 30km jog? :beer::beers::hamburger:

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Hours core / weights

150 l swim … 55:22. PB!

Boom.

30 mins cycling specific stretches.

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4 x 500g reps + some smaller, more frequent ones :see_no_evil::rofl::man_shrugging:t4:

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Why are there tea towels on the pub table?

Gave up on squeezing in a late bike

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I CANNOT find a nice little tray/board thing to go there.

Wooden worktops are utter shite.
Stain if you look at them.

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That’s the whole point of them. They aren’t meant to stay new looking, they’re meant to tell a story.

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The story being they look shit and filthy?
Hate the things.

Not shitty but used. It’s like scars on your body, a life journey.

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8K run at dinnertime with 5K tempoish, ~20:30 but was flagging in the last K and it included a few dead turns, ramp and got caught at a crossing, so not too bad.

Also jumped in the river tonight for an abysmal 1K swim, but if you don’t swim you can’t expect to swim fast! It was warmer than I expected but the windchill off the north sea when I got out was a shock, had to go to the sauna to get warm.

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Yeah, the wooden worktop in our utility room is covered in laundry detergent ‘stains’! My kids call it a ‘counter’ FFS.

iirc Lost is no longer £9 for 12 cans in Tesco; that was the clincher for me.

£10 for 10 until mid June

All kitchen worktops are called counters in Oz ( but then again, linen is called Manchester over there!)

Think I might have finally hit my TSB hole.

Was feeling drained yesterday, but put it down to a mix of too much sun, dehydration and underfuelled.

Went to the pool today with the best intentions of at least 60 x 100m off 2:00

After about 20 I was feeling less than energetic.
Thought I could hold on for 50, but called it at 40.
Managed 1km pull and paddles afterwards, but that was a struggle.

Currently on the sofa rethinking my day.

Anyhoo.

40 x 100m off 2:00 making mostly 1:31-1:32
2 x 500m Pull and Paddles 7:45 / 7:48

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Vo2 bike intervals

4x 5.5min split in half with a 45s break, still hard.

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Is that saying you had a max heart of 158 for 365 watts?

So what you are saying is. “I was going to swim 6K this morning, but felt a bit tired, so only swam 5K”

I haven’t swum 5K this year…

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