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Friday 10th Feb
Gosh what a frustrating day this is turning out to be. Nothing has gone to plan. Still I managed to fit in a 20k cycle to see if my new tube was ok since I hadnt used that wheel since I had the flat last Saturday. Glad to report its ok so I'm all set to go for tomorrow's duathlon. Had planned to run off the bike but had a visitor waiting for me when I got home so couldnt. Then I finally got to run but had to stop early as had a phone call to day a delivery guy would be at the house in a few minutes. Managed 2.43 miles in 23 minutes. Had planned to swim at 3 but only got round to having my lunch then so that's a wash out too. I've also been mucking up the SBR challenge table. Argh, what else can go wrong??
I'm going off to walk the dog now after which the baking will begin for the race tomorrow
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Saturday 11th Feb - Dromineer Duathlon 1
Whooop whooop if only you could bottle this feeling
. Participated in my first ever duathlon this morning. It was really really hard, I think I came second last but wow I loved it!
I was sick with nerves heading down, really scared. But I just had to HTFU and get on with it. Slowest went first so I volunteered to head off with two other girls. We were quickly passed by 2 other quick girls. The first mile was very tough, straight away a big long hill. I knew we are going fast but was shocked to see my garmin say 8:12 for the first mile. :eek: This is my fastest mile in any run ever since I've been keeping records 4 years ago!!! In fact every mile in both runs today was faster than my quickest mile of 8:49 I set last summer. This is why Im so thrilled. My speed and fitness has to have improved grately since I got injured. I'm very excited now about what the rest of the year will hold for me.
Maybe I will finally blast that sub60 10k:).
Anyway back to the race. I found the run very tough but pushed on. 5.06kms in 26:35. Transition was a total mess. I can definitely do better here. I spent some time trying to decide wether to put on my sunglasses or just leave them. I put them on, they fogged up, I took them off, changed my mind, put them on, changed my shoes, took a drink, took off my sunglasses and then walked with the bike for a bit when I should have just jumped on and raced off. lesson learned.
The cycle was a bit of a disappointment. I think I'm strong on the bike but didnt manage to catch many people. I only passed about 4 people and 2 of those passed me again later on. I had expected to reel some people in but it didnt happen. (note to self- more speed work to be done on the bike). I also clipped out coming up to the two roundabouts as I'm still scared of falling and stopped totally at the second one even when people after me kept going and passed me out:o. Bike section 18.41kms in 41:24.
T2 was much quicker -43 seconds.
It was mentally tough going out for the second run when nearly everyone else was finished. Physically it was a total biach!! I have never felt anything like it, my legs, my arse they were broken. I wasnt even sure I was running and I still had that hill to face again. I wanted to stop. I wanted to walk but I told myself it was only 2k, I could do it. And I did- quicker again than any mile in any race before today. 2.12kms in 11:07.
Total time 1:22:10. Great day, loved it. Cant wait for the next one.0 -
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Thanks guys, I'm still in shock about my run time, just never believed I had it in me
Sunday 12th Feb
Body sore and tired today so I ditched the idea of a run and swim and just went to the pool instead. I had timed a 750 m swim a few weeks back and it took me an embarrassing 38 minutes as I had to take lengthy breaks after each length. I decided to do it again today to see if a month of regular swimming had made any difference. Delighted to say it has. The 30 lengths took me 28;58. Still incredibly slow but its a 9 minute improvement for me, and now at least I know I can do the 30 lengths in less then the dreaded 30 minute cut off time:). Looking forward to working on my stamina and stroke over the next month. Maybe next time I time myself I will be able to do 3 or 4 lengths without having to take a break, or maybe the breaks will be shorter.
850m total.0 -
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donothoponpop wrote: »Happy Valentines Day, hot chick from Tri forum!
**mmmwwah!**
Why thank you, crazy internet man 0 -
Monday 13th - Wed 15th Feb
My daughter is home for the mid-term so I planned this week to be a recovery week. I'm also wrecked for some reason so the timing is perfect for me to step back a little.
We had a family walk up Coum forest trail Monday morning. It was lovely to do something active all of us together. Our 12 year old even enjoyed it despite herself:D
Nothing Tuesday, I felt I couldnt go to turbo on Valentines Day and didnt want to spend the 2 hours away from my daughter after being in work all day.
I was totally shattered yesterday so all I managed to do was a 40 minute walk with my students at work. I was falling asleep on the couch last night and went to bed at 10.30.
Thursday 16th Feb
The plan was to get up for the 6.30 club swim but I didnt sleep much last night. We were all feeling sick, think it might be some chicken from our chinese that wasn't quite right. Alarm went off at 5.50, I turned it off and didnt wake again till 6.20 which was too late to get to the pool on time.
Finally I got up and decided to go for a run. It had to be a treadmill one because I'm a dedicated parent. 7.32 miles in 70 minutes. Woohoo longest run since July 7th last year! I'm nearly confident enough to say my injury is completely healed 30 mins of core, weights and stretching followed the run.
Walked the dog after lunch then came back and set up the turbo. It's only my second time using it on my own at home. I much prefer my classes. Anyway I put on the tv and did a 5 min spinning wu then worked my way up and down the gears 2 minutes in each gear, then 5 mins easy spinning and up and down the gears 1 minute each then just spinned it out until I reached 1hr 25 minutes. My ass was broken by the end:D0 -
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Saturday 18th Feb
Group cycle this morning. A big turn out which is great, these cycles were in danger of being cancelled before Christmas so it's great to see how well supported they are now. I think there was 18 of us. The problem is I'm not very comfortable cycling in a big group. I find it very tiring having to deal with constant changing of speeds and directions of the cyclists ahead. It's never a smooth cycle, people always seem to be brakeing or swerving or coming up outside you. Its a bit mental when you're near the back and today I spent most of my time there as the roll overs went haywire too. Still on the other hand, I had no energy in me so wouldn't have been able to be at the front either. No pleasing me at the moment
Anyway it was a long hard slog for me today. I felt sick and cold and just really put the head down and got on with it. We stopped for a break after about 45kms and when the group took off again I found myself at the back with one of the girls and we decided to let them go and continue on at our own pace as she was having pains in her legs and I was just lazy. Got caught in a hail stone shower as we approached the hardest climb of the cycle. Had to pull over at one point to check if I had a puncture after I hit a pothole but luckily I was grand.
Made it back to Nenagh in one piece and as I approached the meeting point and my car I saw I had 66kms done. That equals my longest cycle ever and I couldnt leave it at that so I carried on by myself for a few more kms up the road. Back to the car after 3 hrs, 71.88kms.
Too cold, tired and lazy to swim this afternoon. Really have to go tomorrow, I havent been all week.0 -
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Sunday 19th Feb
Hubby away in Liverpool today so I had the whole day completely to myself with nothing much to do (apart from clean my house but like come on, as if that's going to happen:D)
After a nice sleep in I headed off to the pool for the first time in a week
. Paid, went for a toilet break, took off my pants then realised I had forgot to bring my togs! They dont sell them there so I had to get my money back and go to Tesco to see if they had anything. Picked out the least flouncy ones for a steal at €11.50 and picked up some beansprouts for the dinner. The girl at the till was a bit bemused- swimming togs and beansprouts a bit of a weird combination. Anyway got back the pool and the girl at reception asked me if I wanted a student rate for my swim. I said 'No but if you want to give it to me:)' and she did- €3, nice . Realised when I was taking off my hoodie in the changing room that its my old college one. Score, I think I might wear it more often!
Anyway I suppose I should talk about the actual swim:). I just decided to take it easy and do as much as I could do without thinking about how fast I was going or how many lengths I did. I just did mostly front crawl with some breast stroke to recover, back stroke and side stroke. I decided to try take a breath every 4th stroke and not every second. This allowed me to concentrate on the actual pull of my arms. Was very happy with this as I felt my arms were doing much more work today instead of me having to kick like hell to move along. 44 lengths in the end. Nice enjoyable session0 -
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This weeks training so far:
Monday 5th March
Took my students to the gym for sport this afternoon. Didnt manage to get much done myself but I can see myself getting the chance to do a sneaky 3 miler here every now and then- I have a great job:D. 1 mile on treadmill followed by 1 mile on the crosstrainer.
Straight to the pool after work. Had a lane all to myself so tried out a planned session instead of just swimming aimlessly. All front crawl with about 20 seconds recovery 4x50, 4x100, 4x50, then 250 straight followed by 4x50. Loved it
Had a run in with a weird man though at the end of my 250m, I was going to do more but had to stop because of him. He was swimming two lanes over from me and came into my lane as I ended the 10th length. He just sat down under the water with his legs sticking out along the ground as far as he could put them so I had no where to go but to kind of squash myself up to the ropes so as not to be on top of him:eek:. He then came up for air and stood in the corner (I use the lane at the edge of the pool). I decided to just get away from him and did another 50 but he was still there. Then he took off swimming down the lane but kind of spread himself out as if to take over the whole lane. no bother I thought I will just swim down the same way I had been going, along by the ropes but when I was about 3/4 way down he was there right infront of me and we nearly had a collision. I got such a shock, he totally shouldnt have been there and I had to stop as I didnt see him coming at all. I shouted some expletives at him and thank god he was gone back to his own lane when I got back to shallow end. Really dont know what he was trying to do. I am well able to share lanes, I've often been in it with 7 other people but never anyone as weird as that.
Tuesday 6th March
Kayaking in Bellharbour with work this afternoon. Lovely to get back at it, cant wait to get my own out now:). 30 min run on the treadmill when I got home 3.3miles.0 -
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