8 min ski erg…?!
Bloody hell?
I would be near the 24 but would do a faster bike to start.
Well done
192! Lol
Exploratory runs for me invariably end in disaster - even when re tracing old routes. I re traced a race I ran a decade ago. Once open fields now housing estates etc… cue a lot of double backing, stress and energy spent before giving up.
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Can just about manage a stand alone sub 8min Ski on the back of a high volume training block but haven’t done it as part of an Ergathlon. Target time was around 8:10 which would allow for a fairly conservative row to complete all distances within 24mins.
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The row and bike I can get near/ under.
Miles off the ski erg, but I’ll keep trying.
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Managed to squeeze in a quick run yesterday before the funeral I was attending. I’d plot a route before I went up, but you never know what it’s going to be like when you actually get on the ground. Turned out to be a cracker of a route, with only one nav error where I took the wrong track off the top of the hill.
It had little open moorland, tiny lanes, a beautiful little river valley, ancient Broad leaf forest, open Heather and I decided to go up the south side of the main peak via a direct route to get some good bouldery scrambling in (which accounts for km 13 being nearly 17 mins).
18km, 682m vert, 6.19/km pace.
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Looks lovely mate!
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That looks like perfect training for a Bob Graham 
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It would always be a Paddy for me!
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Half way through a family hike to Croyde and back. Will be about 13km all up. Waiting on ‘nutrition’ 
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5km uphill treadmill run this morning, will do a 45 minute spin class later.
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2hrs in the sloppy surf but this time I had a plan. Instead of wishing it would glass off, I hired one one the 8ft foam kook boards. Caught a lot of waves but handled like a super tanker. Great fun though.
Mrs FP asked me to teach her but I’ve learnt my lesson there. It’s like trying to teach your kids to drive. I’ve signed her for school tomorrow. My marriage is worth £35
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Small price to pay 
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Been in a sort of planning mode today. Haven’t really had a goal for the last 6 months, I have just pootled from one week to the other doing whatever I feel like.
This year, Strava says that an average unstructured, whatever-type of week has looked like this:
2 swims, averaging 1 hour 25 minutes
4 rides, averaging 2 hours 18 minutes
5 runs, averaging 3 hours 16 minutes
For a total of pretty much bang on 7 hours per week.
Which is fine, I feel pretty good on this, no injuries, not too tired, and my body fat vs beer intake seem to be in a happy equilibrium as, as long as no-one looks at the liver too closely.
There are not many long sessions in there. I struggle a bit with long sessions, sometimes they can stop feeling like play and start feeling like work.
Which is a bit of problem because being a suggestible sort of guy, I signed up to two long distance races. So am going to have to start doing some longer stuff at some point.
The first will be the Costwold Classic Middle Distance on 10th July 2022, and the second will be Ironman Lanzarote now in May 2023.
I keep reminding myself I’m doing them because I want to, and not just because I got swept up in the enthusiasm of someone on TriTalk & flashed the credit card after one too many Fossies. (Although that’s true too.)
Not wishing to break myself or start hating the sport too much, I’m trying to be a bit thoughtful about dosing the effort.
Knowing how I roll, I think I can probably sustain interest in a block of proper structured training for 8-12 weeks & then the mind starts to wander and I started knocking the house about, trying to learn the sax, neither of which help you go faster in a race. So am trying come up with a sort of long range plan to get to the start line of those 2 races in some sort of shape.
Currently thinking that the baseline will involve ticking over like now. It seems to work fine for general day to day life. But for 3 or 4 “blocks” I might try to go all psycho, lock the beer fridge, put Tri Talk Bangers on repeat and actually do some long sessions too.
Block #1: frostbite
In the late Autumn/ Winter 2021 a run block and try to hit a half marathon goal in Jan/Feb 2022
Then a bit more pootling, until say Easter 2022 when:
Block #2: some actual riding
A build for the middle distance tri. Ideally would like a Training Peaks graph that builds in an impressive and disciplined fashion, a la @sidsnot. And not so much like my usual random skyline, mainly lowrise, some tundra.
If that goes well then probably take a chill pill for the rest of 2022, dig the garden and so on, before coming back to school in earnest in the Winter for:
Block #3: the arthritis express
The long build to Lanza 2023, which I might do via a Spring marathon so that I can mentally break the training into 2 parts- blocks #3a (more run, when its cold) and #3b (more bike, when it’s still cold but not quite so)
How’s that sound?
Just thinking out loud & trying to get some thoughts in order.
Did wonder about getting a coach but that feels a bit serious. I’m not going to be challenging for any age group podiums or Kona slots or anything. Just want to be able to look back feeling that I pitched up fit on race day & gave a good enough account.
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30 minute jog am
29 mile bike pm. There and back to Rugby 
Odd to think a game known universally came from this place - an unedifying town made famous by one bloke in an institution that marries over-privilege with mediocrity so effortlessly
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Your block 1 is my staple.
Zwift? Nah mate.
Get on the XC, get strong running, hit a spring half and be confident you can run.
Then start a bike block to get that good for Cotswolds.
Running can go on the back burner, as you’re already decent at that.
Swimming? I am now in two minds about this…
…getting to, from and in the pool is a good 90 minutes for 45 minutes of swimming.
I could do 75 minutes on Zwift/core/weights in that time, which would net me a larger benefit come race day.
But…if you can’t swim, you can’t bike or run well afterwards 
Don’t think about Lanza until Nov ‘22
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This is/was my theory
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Aren’t you “ older” with a 35 min ten k in an oly tri you tried to sandbag explain… and did an awful job to be honest…?!
But your obviously not challenging for any age group places … in any form of race … heaven forbid !
All on seven hours a week… if you weren’t obviously such a nice chap, I think I’d quite dislike you !
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Haha that tri was billed as 10km but was actually 9km, Garmin never lies. Would be happy with 38 for a 10km
by “older” I assume you mean “in the prime”, I’ll be 50 in Oct 2023 & the way things work I think that means will count as 50-54 AG for Lanza in May 2023. Not really interested in AG placing, there are always plenty of studs out there who have better genes, do more training, drink less beer and spend less time on tritalk.
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I like the sound of this. Especially shifting focus throughout your blocks. Should stave off boredom and repetition, keeping you engaged
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