Cripes that was terrible.
This morning started at 5.40am when i was rudely awoken by my alarm. I realised immediately that things weren't going to be fantastic when i felt slightly nauseous (weird). But i made it to the gym, and got on the spin bike. It was a pretty awful workout compared to the class on Tuesday. I took ALL the easy options and left to get on the treadmill before stretches.
Run this morning was meant to be 6km. I made it 5km. And it took me 29.30... AND i had the stitch the whole time :-(
Need to concentrate on recovery and fuelling today for tomorrow's 33-35km trail run. At the moment i'm feeling very unenthused for it. And it doesn't help that i'll be doing it by myself. DH did his yesterday without me!
Thankfully I only have to work for 4 hours today as i'm catching a flight home earlier. Might even grab a nap on the plane or when i get home!
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Swim before the storm!
Again, feeling quite unmotivated today. And tired. First week back at work is doing it's damage!
Today's plan is swim and run. I just made it to the pool before the stormy weather closed in. The first 20 lengths (33mt pool) were a right struggle and i fancied hopping out there and then. But every time i got to the end of the pool i just thought - turn around and push off... then you just have to do it! Made it to 2km. Certainly wasn't fast or flash... just a boring steady freestyle swim.
One of my swim goals for this year is to regulary do alot more drills and push myself to do different stuff in the pool. Sometimes i prefer just ticking off the laps, but i suspect that's not what's gonna make me stronger/faster!
Meant to be running tonight after work but we are in for rain, thunderstorms and hail! And i didn't bring my gear to do treadmill at the gym :-(
Other option - if i'm hell bent on getting the mileage in (which i really should be) is to run the 6km off the spin bike tomorrow morning... not ideal but doable.
Right. Back to work!
Today's plan is swim and run. I just made it to the pool before the stormy weather closed in. The first 20 lengths (33mt pool) were a right struggle and i fancied hopping out there and then. But every time i got to the end of the pool i just thought - turn around and push off... then you just have to do it! Made it to 2km. Certainly wasn't fast or flash... just a boring steady freestyle swim.
One of my swim goals for this year is to regulary do alot more drills and push myself to do different stuff in the pool. Sometimes i prefer just ticking off the laps, but i suspect that's not what's gonna make me stronger/faster!
Meant to be running tonight after work but we are in for rain, thunderstorms and hail! And i didn't bring my gear to do treadmill at the gym :-(
Other option - if i'm hell bent on getting the mileage in (which i really should be) is to run the 6km off the spin bike tomorrow morning... not ideal but doable.
Right. Back to work!
Yesterday's run...
Oh dear. Was meant to be 12km of hills. Final distance was 8.8km with a total time of 59.34! Errrr what the heck. That's the worst run i've done in months.
http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/166258536
What went wrong?
I drank a cider approximatley 40mins prior to hitting the pavement.
It was a hill run... and very steep at that.
It was VERY hot and windy.
I was feeling very unmotivated.
These runs will happen so gotta just move on. Lesson = cut the alcohol. At least until Tarawera is over with.
Today will be a 6-7km flat run. Aiming for 5.30 pace. Will need to wait till early evening if i want to get anywhere near acheiving this.
http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/166258536
What went wrong?
I drank a cider approximatley 40mins prior to hitting the pavement.
It was a hill run... and very steep at that.
It was VERY hot and windy.
I was feeling very unmotivated.
These runs will happen so gotta just move on. Lesson = cut the alcohol. At least until Tarawera is over with.
Today will be a 6-7km flat run. Aiming for 5.30 pace. Will need to wait till early evening if i want to get anywhere near acheiving this.
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
First training report post
I plan to use this homepage for my main training reports as they will be the most frequent.
Monday was a rest day for me, recovering from big weekend - wedding and travel back from holiday.
Tuesday
First spin class in a few weeks. I was very unenthused for this session but begrudeningly managed to get through the 50min class. Took it fairly easy as my legs were still sore from the long dancing session on saturday night!
Followed the spin class with a short 2km run on the treadmill and was then starting to get into the groove a bit more. Managed 5.30km pace pretty easily and felt good at the end.
Followed that brick up with a weights session, only 25mins but i'm all about just sticking to the sessions per week with my weights at the moment. It's pretty hard fitting it in on top of the 3 main disciplines and yoga but it's proving essential to moving the last bit of weight (5kg to go!).
Today
Lovely centergy class. First one in over a month. Felt pretty tough and unbalanced today but looking forward to the next class.
Heading home to do 12km hill run shortly!
Monday was a rest day for me, recovering from big weekend - wedding and travel back from holiday.
Tuesday
First spin class in a few weeks. I was very unenthused for this session but begrudeningly managed to get through the 50min class. Took it fairly easy as my legs were still sore from the long dancing session on saturday night!
Followed the spin class with a short 2km run on the treadmill and was then starting to get into the groove a bit more. Managed 5.30km pace pretty easily and felt good at the end.
Followed that brick up with a weights session, only 25mins but i'm all about just sticking to the sessions per week with my weights at the moment. It's pretty hard fitting it in on top of the 3 main disciplines and yoga but it's proving essential to moving the last bit of weight (5kg to go!).
Today
Lovely centergy class. First one in over a month. Felt pretty tough and unbalanced today but looking forward to the next class.
Heading home to do 12km hill run shortly!
New Year, New Blog
This year i've decided to start a blog to record my training. The blog has several objectives, but the main one is to provide training and race reports. I already log all my workouts pretty religiously on mapmyrun.com and am currently in the process of switching over to trainingpeaks.com.
The other main reason for the blog is to provide myself a place to put all the links to training/nutrition/injury articles that I find helpful but always end up losing!
Other things i'll pop into here are links to my training plans, training goals, and links to other cool tri/run blogs.
And I also just love writing... so this is another opportunity to do so in a non-work related way! Something I don't make enough time to do.
So here we go, brace yourself... it's half way through Jan, two months until Tarawera and i'm about to ramp things up again!
The other main reason for the blog is to provide myself a place to put all the links to training/nutrition/injury articles that I find helpful but always end up losing!
Other things i'll pop into here are links to my training plans, training goals, and links to other cool tri/run blogs.
And I also just love writing... so this is another opportunity to do so in a non-work related way! Something I don't make enough time to do.
So here we go, brace yourself... it's half way through Jan, two months until Tarawera and i'm about to ramp things up again!
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