Did a short turbo session last Monday (45mins/22km) and then took the rest of the week off to try and shift loitering tickly cough/cold. Hasn’t had desired effect but do feel better for a week off, so time to knuckle back down and get some solid weeks in before Xmas.
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Had a serious case of CBA. 3 days of bike commuting and a single short pool swim for myself - I hadn’t been in an indoor pool as cold as that in my life. Take your breath away was an understatement!
Need to pull my finger out this week - seems like most of the week is looking wet too
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I hit 98CTL twice last week iirc. Yesterday a good hard aerobic 2h ride, with NP at 226w. Because my wife has been going running at 8am, I’ve not been getting out until 10ish, and going out later I am actually feeling more awake and the ride is generally better in all respects i.e. I’m able to enjoy a decent workout. 
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I did 21km of running last week! one night off roader and one road run. had actually planned on going out last night, but an administration error meant i couldn’t go aka i didn’t listen when my wife told me she was going to her friend’s house. Annoying as i was out spectating a local race (which i have now missed 2 yrs in a row thanks to injury) and i could’ve easily run over to my spectating spot (the muddy patch i posted from my run earlier in the week) and back home.
It was great fun though heckling all the runners to plough into the deep mud and water. There was a little cheat chute that some runners found., so i heartily booed everyone that took that (despite only saving you 20m of mud).
Hoping to get out 3 or 4 times this week. Need to get the body parts used to running again - feet, knees, calves etc.
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Great to see @gingerbongo 
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Yup!
I tend to do my tests a good three hours after breakfast, but before lunch, as I’ve always found that to be my “optimum” time.
After work, I’m usually tired and a bit annoyed, before, I’m usually tired and just want to do something simple.
A quiet week for me, last week, culminating in a 10k on Sunday. just lots of stuff at home / work but it was meant to be a taper week into the 10k. I was meant to take it very steady, but as soon as I pinned the number on I decided to give it a go. Ran 40:36, which I was quite pleased with; just ran out of steam at 7km but just about held it together after taking it steady for a minute or so. 16th and 4th in my age group, so not too bad.
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The furthest I ran last week was about 20 metres to catch the lights, I did look at the bike once, but that’s about it.
This week has started in a similar fashion.
But I did give a pint of O- away today if that counts for anything (also means any efforts will be well down for a couple of weeks).
I’m starting to get worried whether any of my kit will still fit me in a day or two!
Jeff
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That means you’re doing resting right!
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Open water? As in no roof? 
No, just OW simulation - turning at the T’s, no push offs.
A lot of heads up, eyes closed and trying to swim straight.
It’s an easy session to break the week up.
Saying that, Nantwich has an open air brine lido, which isn’t too far away 
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Phew, I knew you lot were hard ooop north but that seemed next level
Just been catching up on this thread & the sub 3 thread (and the sub 17 5km thread, not that I have any business being there).
Finding it interesting to put times to names, and to see what sorts of training approaches work for different people.
Reading the discussion about 20 min peak bike power made me wonder if anyone would be interested in a sort of TriTalk2 leaderboard for 2019?
Top of my head, this might work if people were happy to share their best times this year for say a 5km run, best average power this year for 20min on the bike, and maybe best time this year for 400m swim.
It could all be extrapolated up to race distances to give a sort of virtual triathlon leaderboard. Can’t remember if something like that been done before? If anyone thinks that sounds interesting maybe I could start another thread linking to a Google sheet
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Reminds me of the old 30 min treadmill challenge.
Could someone cleverer than me come up with a way of combining those efforts to give an overall score in a kind of Isoman stylee?
A running thread along the lines of the cycling time trial:
Would that not work for posting 5K, 10K, half & mara times etc?
A google sheet would seem to be a simple way of doing stuff and enable things to be updated dynamically. People copying and pasting a list is a fairly archaic way of doing things.
It would also allow for easy reference to previous years (by starting a new work sheet each year) and therefore seeing progression. You could probably URL within the google sheet to strava activities and the like, if people really wanted to add that info
8km treadmill with 7@ 5.25 and the last one at @4.11, ouch.
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This sounds like an off-season challenge no? If so, it should be times done once the leaderboard goes ‘live’. It should probably include some cross training too; like a 2km row 
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