So here we are in week one...oh boy, it's official, the training has started. I get butterflies in my stomach just thinking about it... As you can see, the blinking training plan is from the USA, so is in Imperial measurements. If you want to be technical, you can use this converter to get an accurate measurement. But to make my life easier, I’m using the following…
1 yard = 1 meter
1 mile = 1.5 km
Well let's see what I have covered in the above plan....
Monday - 50 min run, covered just over 8km. Feeling very slow...I used to do 10km in 49 minutes...but this was a base rate run, so average heart rate was around 150 beats. Felt a bit sore and stiff the next day but knees are good...so can't complain.
Tuesday - 1,5 hours, 3450m swim. Well, I'm only doing one swim a week, so squashed all 3000m (and then some) into the one session. Not bad eh!!! Session went something like this. 100m - Warm up / cool down
800m - swim, arms only with pullbuoy
50,75,100,100,75,50 X 5 - 15 sec rest interval
300m rcovery swim.
Wednesday - Turbo session, I was going to the club Turbo sessions, but with half an hour travel each way I felt it a huge waste of time, so last night I set the Turbo up in the lounge and did 30km in 1h13min. Not great but not awful. I'll get there....Doing a Turbo session on your own is mind numbingly dull. But I put my iPod on and the telly and just got on with it. I’ll do the rest of the cycling on Sunday on the club ride, we usually do around 70km so that should take me to the allotted cycling total for the week.
Now just to sneak in the running…think I'll try do the 30min one on Thursday evening, and the 40 min one on Saturday morning....well, that's the plan at least.
I feel quite tired after this 3 day training stint, but hopefully my body will get used to this punishing schedule.
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