86 days to go!

Blimey, that's not long to go. I'm still on track though, I've had a good week Sat was a coaching session over at Hillingdon so I cycled over there, did 1/2hr Jog 1/2hr intervals then bit more cycling with the guys on the circuit then cycled home, then straight into 1/2hr jog 1/2 hills 1/2hr jog. Sunday was 5.5hr bike then 1hr 10min run with hard 10km in middle.

Snow! Lots of it! I decide not to drive to swimming early Tue or Wed, the rds looked a bit dodgy, felt a bit guilty about this though as I found the rds weren't actually that bad and on Wed did 3.5hrs with Tony in the morning then another 3hrs on my own after a lovely cup of tea at Fanny's Farm. Had some food then ran 2hrs with 20min of hill reps in the middle. Quite tiered last night but feeling fairly recovered now.

Next weekend I hace the intercounties CC champs then weekend after Inter counties Half Marathon champs then Humanrace 16mile then first Triathlon; The fabulous Thames Turbo race series on Easter Monday. London marathon is then only 3 weeks later, I'm pretty sure I'm in better shape than when I ran 2hr 34min so I hope to get a good PB there, after that I have to really hit the cycling for a month and then I should be ready for Ironman Lanzarote- that's the plan -

Hope everybodys thraining is going well, remember a stiff body is a dead body, keep stretching to stay alive. "what?"

Standing up all day makes you tiered.

As I discovered at the TCR show at Sandown pk last weekend. A really good show and great to meet some Fit-For members while we were there. As well as walking around the show and talking to lots of different people all day, I had to shoot off to Lloyd pk in Croydon for our last Surrey League cross country of the season, I finished 4th.
On Sunday it was back to the show and I had also entered the 10km run around the race course, it was freecing cold and the start was delayed so meant warming up twice, anyway there were near 800 runners, I went off fast and opened up a comfortably lead on my friend Roger Barr, then the lead stayed about the same for the rest of the race and I won in a time of 36mins!!! (either I was running slow(maybe) or the coures was tough(which it was) and possibly long(I hope).
I then went back to our Fit For stand, but didn't have much of a rest before Gary Palmer of Sportstest called me over for the Max Test on the treadmill that I agreed to do for him, mmmmmm, good idea with tiered legs, anyway started with a sub max test running 5mis at 13km/p/hr then 5mins at 15km/p/hr then 5 mins at 17km/p/hr this was not to tough but I knew the hard stuff was coming after a 10min rest. Started the test at 12km/p/hr and the speed increased 0.5km every 30secs until I couldn't get any faster, I made it to 22km/p/hr, not bad I thought with tiered legs and at 1% gradient.

The rest of the week has been good, much the same as usually swimming with Hounslow, and riding hard up hills.

My new bikes are arriving soon, can't wait!

Another good weeks training.

Well I said last week, I needed to up the swimming and so I have started swimming with Hounslow hurricanes in the mornings this means getting up at 4:45am but I don't mind, and the 90min sessions are really good.

This weekend was great it was our Fit-For training weekend, I cycled down to meet everyone at Merstham on Saturday morning, then from there 12 of us cycled down through the lanes, up "The Wall" and stopping off for a cup of tea in Ditchling on our way to Arundel, great weather and 95mile all told, then went straight out and had 1hr 45min run around the fields and roads of Arundel, I felt pretty good.
On Sunday, we cycled back a similar distance but a different route through the Surrey lanes, and I had another 1hr 15min run again felt good.

Monday up at 4:45am to drive to Isleworth for swimming, felt a little stiff and tiered but still had a good swim.
Tuesday: Swim in Putney, 1hr run steady, 1hr bike steady, then track run session at Croydon arena, 5lap,4lap,3lap,2lap,1lap with 1 lap jog between each, again felt good.
Wednesday: Swim in Isleworth, 3hr45min bike steady pace and hard on the hills, then 1hr steady run.

Good solid weeks training, I'm upping the intensity all round now, gonna be some tired Stephen!