Monday 24 August 2009

24th Aug - Bike

Ride to Wandsworth - Redhill - Croydon

Approx 40 miles

20th Aug - Bike

Ride out to Oxted with Tommy and Ed, took it easy.

New PB on Oxted hill 4.37 mins. Felt pretty bad but recovered quickly.

19th Aug - Swim

Purley Pool with Mike

400m w/u
8 * 100m various sprint work
200m w/d

17th Aug - Swim

Training with SLH

16th Aug - Worthing Triathlon

Olympic Distance Tri down in Worthing.

Felt OK in the swim, really need to work on holding my direction better and actually trying my hardest!

T1 was pretty poor, need to leave myself more time for setting up.

Bike was a really nice ride but I def didn't push hard enough, was trying to save my legs for the run but I def didn't go hard enough, at all.

T2 was good although got a 15 sec penalty for taking my helmet off too early.

Run was really good, felt pretty bad for first 3km but just focused on catching the next man each time, 4km-8km felt really good and just pushed as hard as I could. 8km to 10km went for it and felt like shite! Pleased with the time though and 10th overall on the run!

Splits:

Swim: 30.55 mins
T1: 02.03 mins
Bike: 77.23mins
T2: 00.43 mins
Run: 36.16mins

Total: 2.27.22 hours 101st, 19th in category.

Morale of the story: try harder.

Wednesday 12 August 2009

12th August - Bike

Ride to work and back:

out 17 miles - 54 mins
back 17 miles - 60 mins

Feeling strong on the way back,quick 1km straight off the bike.

11th August - Run

Run with K on short CC course to Farleigh, feeling good, couple of hill sprints, no ITB.

10th August - Swim

Finally recovering after the cold, swim with SLH

400m - 7.18
300m
200m
100m
100m
200m
300m
400m - 6.50

Felt lik eshite, chest really tight, guess form the cold, still a pretty strong finish though.

9th August - Run

Short CC run out to Farleigh, no ITB and feeling good.

8th August - Bike

Ride in the new Forest, 1 hour sprint work, cold still making things hard.

5th August - Bike

Ride out in Forest of Dean, out to Symmonds Yat and Ross on Wye, around 30 miles, 2 hours, tough hilly terrain and still suffering with the cold.

31 July - Bike

Ride with Addiscombe CC, out with the 19mph (actually 21mph), feeling a lot stronger than usual, prob bike.