Thursday, March 24, 2005

Pulled muscle in my calf.

What a bugger did a 2hr steady run on Thursday with 15mins hard at the end and my calf went, I massaged and Iced it and didn't run on it till the Human Race 16mile Breakfast run on Sunday, I was fine for the first 8mile, could just feel it a little but it wasn't getting any worse so was happy, then on the bridge going over the Thames it went again, it wasn't excruciating but I had to slow up still managed 2nd but more worrying I'm having to rest from the running till it recovers! oh well lots of swimming and cycling. Had some good 5k swim sessions Tue and Wed getting lots of miles in on the bike.

Hopefully will be ok to run on it by Monday as I'm keen to race the Thames Turbo Triathlon.

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

20th in National Half marathon champs

After taking it easy towards the end of last week , I felt fully recovered and had a nice steady 3hrs on the bike on Sat and a very short jog with a few strides. Then on Sunday I traveled down to Hastings for the National Half Marathon Champs , It's a very hilly course but with most of the climbing in the first 5miles, (I found the long 2mile climb from 3-5mile very tough) but after this got into my running again and felt strog towards the end, I finished 20th in 1hr 12min 12 secs and with the first 2 being Kenyon I think I was 18th in the national champs and also I was running for the Surrey team and we all finished in the top 20 so we managed to win the Inter Counties champs, very good day all round, mainly pleased that I recovered well after feeling so tiered last Wednesday.

My swimming has changed as traveling every morning to Isleworth and back 17mile away through traffic at 5 in the morning was becoming quite a stress so I am going back to swimming on my own, just have to make sure I keep up the intensity!

Well Just over 2months left to Lanzarote, Swimming and Running are definitely on track my cycling is going good but I will hope to really get the speed going on the bike with some TTs and road races after London marathon.

Cycling to the pool now so ciao for now.

Thursday, March 10, 2005

My God I'm tiered!

You know when you're a bit to tiered when you start getting so irritable that an offer of a lovely cup of tea is annoying, your eye lids start twitching and you can't even keep up with the postman that it's time to have a rest.

I ran the Inter County Cross Country Champs on Saturday and as a team Surrey came 3rd which was great unfortunately I was a non scorer as I finished 153rd(was not gonna mention this result as is not very impressive and quite embarrassing but hey) I felt rubbish but thought it was just the muddy course and a bad day but I did a 19miler with my friend Kev on Sunday and felt really tiered all day, strangely after an easy day on Monday I did an interval session on Tuesday evening and was running much better but was getting slower each interval- bad sign- then on Wed I felt good swimming in the morning but have rarely felt quite so tiered on the bike and so realized it was a necessity that I needed a good rest.
As you can gather I've overdone it a little. I've looked back at the training and it's quite clear that I was tiered last weekend and with no proper rest day I just haven't recovered properly and have accumulated a bit to much fatigue so am taking it easy for a few days. I feel much better today but am gonna still take it easy till the weekend.

Note to self: Take more proper rest days/periods!!!

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

March

Well it's now March so only 81 days to go.

Thursday: was 1hr swim 1hr rollers then run 30min warm up 30min hill reps 20min warm down.
Friday: Swim 4.5km, Bike easy, Run 1hr with steady strides and 1min intervals.
Sat: Turbo warm up 2x10min 4x5min 2x10min all with last min flat out. Run 5mile cross country hard.
Sun:100mile fairly hard and lots of snow showers which is always fun, cup of Tea and a tea cake in the middle at Dollys Pantry in Ditchling. Run 1hr was gonna be a steady 2hrs but felt V tiered so cut short.
Monday: Really short easy swim bike and run at Gym.
Tuesady(today): Fell much fresher, good swim with Optima this morning in Putney, Bike and Mile reps running later.

New Zealand Ironman on Saturday, my moneys on Cameron Brown again will be his 100th win or something in this race. In the womens race look out for a friend of mine Bella Comerford a very dedicated young lady so I hope she has a great race.

I do hope this cold weather; snow,sleat and rain will end soon, I suppose it will so I'll try and enjoy it! while it lasts!