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(Half) Iron Maiden
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25-09-2014 1:53pm#1
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griffin100 wrote: »After some deep thought I think this fits in nicely with the log title and aims (I'm assuming you're a fan - if not I'll delete
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Better than that Foo Fighters sh1te that others in these parts listen to :pac:
Now to throw one at ye:
BTW Maiden Flight of Icarus was my first ever record bought followed swiftly by 666.
Right, to hell with the training log, I'm following for the music
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Friday evening - group swim session. I'm part of a group called Wswim here, which encourages women to get to a standard where they can reasonably join a masters club. Loads of drills and work on catch and breathing this evening. Probably around 2,000m total covered in the session. Pretty solid
Rest day (= clean my apartment, watch loads of sport and pack for holidays) tomorrow, racing Sunday 0 -
rainbow kirby wrote: »Friday evening - group swim session. I'm part of a group called Wswim here, which encourages women to get to a standard where they can reasonably join a masters club. Loads of drills and work on catch and breathing this evening. Probably around 2,000m total covered in the session. Pretty solid
Rest day (= clean my apartment, watch loads of sport and pack for holidays) tomorrow, racing Sunday
I would have thought you were already at a good enough level to swim with a masters group? Do they work differently in the UK?
What do you swim 100m off?0 -
I swim 100m off around 2:10-2:15, which is quite slow. Masters group in the pool I swim in on Fridays (Out to Swim, which happens to be an LGBT group that runs a proper swimming club) requires 2:10 for their slowest lane so I'm borderline. Don't know about Cally Masters, the one closest to where I live.
Also, seeing the water temperature on the IM Mallorca thread makes me really, really happy. Heading there (not Alcudia though) for a week on Monday. There will be swimming. There will be a LOT of swimming. 0 -
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Gatorade Eton Dorney Sprint Triathlon - race report:
Decided to do this as one last one for the season before heading off for a sneaky week away. Ended up being a very cheap one after the Great London Swim refund arrived Went in with the goal of firstly beating my time on the same course in June and mainly to try and get under 1:30. Was rewarded this morning with blue skies and a lovely warm day, very similar conditions to the London Triathlon in August (24c high for the day with a water temperature in the 18-19c range). Happy enough with that, and quite spectator friendly for my one man support crew
750m swim - 15:37
Decided to be a little bit more aggressive with my start position as I lost a lot of time in June by going too far back at the start. Glad I did, got onto some faster feet and held a good line as much as possible. Felt like my stomach was going to do a barrel roll by the end of it but survived anyway without too much goggle violence or underwater warfare! 7/21 in AG (F30-34) after the swim, though for some reason two of the women in my AG who finished the race ahead of me are missing swim splits.
20km bike - 42:14
Tried something new in transition, no socks on the bike. Worked a treat tbh and meant I sliced around a minute off my T1 time from June. Went out hard, the headwind was well placed today in that it was blowing in the direction of the shorter side of the bike course. Passed loads of people early on, hit traffic on my third lap of four 5km laps as a lot of the super sprint competitors were merging onto the course and seriously not looking where they were going - was almost hit by some twat on a TT bike who just couldn't be arsed looking despite being specifically warned about it in the briefing. Was also quite amused by the super sprint competitor on a TT bike with a full disc on the back and a deep section wheel on the front... why the fcuk do you need that when you're only going 10km on the bike? Got to the end fine anyway, but with a vague sense that I hadn't left a lot for the run... 11/21 in AG on the cycle.
5km run - 27:25
Tried to go out hard from the start, legs weren't having it. From about a quarter of the way in my stomach decided it wanted to get in a knot and that it was not going to be my run day. Stuck it out anyway, got a volunteer to throw water at me at the half way point because I couldn't stomach it on the run, and annoyingly enough got pipped by someone in my AG on the run about 500m from the line. 13/21 in my AG on the run.
Thoughts? Delighted with the swim and bike, a little annoyed with the run, but happy overall to have hit my overall goal and finished sub-1:30 Eton Dorney is not the most thrilling of places to race, but Votwo put on a decent event for what you pay for out there. Too many races here looking for over 70 quid for a sprint, this cost £47 (£37 for super sprint and £57 for Olympic distance), had a decent tech top at the end and instant results. Had the added perk of a 1pm start for my wave, so actually getting some decent pre-race sleep was a bonus too!
Would I do it again? Most likely yeah. They repeat that event 3 times in the year (mid June, late July and late September) so if I'm going to race a HIM in September I'll probably do the Oly in late July as a buildup race.0 -
Back from Mallorca. Swam every day in the sea, rented bikes one day for a meandering spin around the south-west of the island (a rather nice Orbea Onix, even if the cycling shoes I got with it were an absolute horrorshow - a size too small on me and very worn cleats) and and went running one day. Drank way too much beer too as expected.
Back to normality tomorrow. Horrible shock to the system to land into Stansted and hit 12c and rain straight away
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Ended up taking yesterday as an unplanned rest day, felt the stirrings of something quite like the manflu that himself has had since we got back from holidays so decided to skip swimming. Went to Costa and drank soy chai lattes instead, quite a pleasant way to spend some of my Friday evening!
Decided to chance an easy cycle this morning as things have not progressed beyond a tickly throat, was out for around an hour and got 22km done. Lovely morning for it, that nice autumn morning where the temperature feels just right, the sun is shining and it feels like half the city decided that running or cycling is a good idea too. 0 -
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Monday - easy run, 35 minutes ish, 6.06/km average pace. Started this one with himself for company, which was nice Felt pretty good throughout tbh and was glad to get back out and start purging the sins of the weekend!
Tuesday AM - 45 minute spin class. Was hard to shove myself out the door for this, a 6:30am alarm closely followed by hearing the wind roaring outside makes one want to roll back over and snooze! This was a lot better than my last spin class at my gym, the instructor gave much more of a cycling workout and she appeared to have some sort of understanding of training rather than the "fling stuff at them and hope it sticks" approach of the last guy.0 -
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Wednesday - 1500m swim, was later than I'd like getting to the pool after work plus I wanted to get home and watch Real Madrid hockeying Liverpool so just did the bare minimum really. Similar session to before - 300 swim, 360 pull, 180 swim, 180 kick, 180 catch-up drill, 300 swim. Happy enough with it, but was glad to be getting out when I did because the teenage club session in the other pool was cancelled which meant a load of teenagers descending on the pool I was in.
Thursday - circuits at the gym with himself. 3 x (8 medicine ball twists, 16 jumping lunges, 10 one-legged squats, 10 hamstring curls with a swiss ball, 10 press-ups, 50 seconds plank, 50 seconds side plank on each side). Falls under the category of "necessary evil" but still glad to get it done.
Forecast looks decent for the weekend, must try to get some good cycling in 0 -
rainbow kirby wrote: »Wednesday - 1500m swim, was later than I'd like getting to the pool after work plus I wanted to get home and watch Real Madrid hockeying Liverpool so just did the bare minimum really. Similar session to before - 300 swim, 360 pull, 180 swim, 180 kick, 180 catch-up drill, 300 swim. Happy enough with it, but was glad to be getting out when I did because the teenage club session in the other pool was cancelled which meant a load of teenagers descending on the pool I was in.
Thursday - circuits at the gym with himself. 3 x (8 medicine ball twists, 16 jumping lunges, 10 one-legged squats, 10 hamstring curls with a swiss ball, 10 press-ups, 50 seconds plank, 50 seconds side plank on each side). Falls under the category of "necessary evil" but still glad to get it done.
Forecast looks decent for the weekend, must try to get some good cycling in
You did that, and it wasn't even forced VICE punishment!!! 0 -
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Sunday - C group spin with my local cycling club, 46km of north London traffic and Hertfordshire country lanes, with more hills than you can shake a stick at. I don't do enough hills so this is the kind of spin that I need to be doing more often, I'm such a bad cyclist it's not even funny. Home with a bacon sandwich, a nice cup of tea and the Leinster match now though and it feels somewhat well earned 0
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Wednesday - Swim 1,500m, same workout as the two last week with catch-up drill replaced with side stroke. Was feeling like I wanted to crawl under my desk and fall asleep by the time I left work, so wasn't up for doing a hard session really. Incoming TOTM at fault tbh, but meh. I did feel a bit better after the swim though, and definitely better after seeing CIty dumped out of the League Cup :pac:
Into work this morning and my shiny new runners have arrived, and Start Fitness even managed to get an exact colour match with the free socks. Happy days 0 -
Rest day Thursday, was feeling a bit crap and tired so just decided to take the chill out option. Went out for a nice walk with himself and ended up at a pub we like. Accidental Camden Pale Ale time.
Friday - group swim. My coach decided to bring her coach to the session - one of these "sweet old lady on the street, battleaxe on the pool deck" types. Tough session but very useful. 2,200m covered in the hour. Had spent the afternoon in work wishing I was out on my bike, it was ridiculously hot in London for late October (23c) and I wanted to be anywhere else but at my desk.
Saturday - 9.4km run, roughly 6:20/km pace (I am a gob****e and forgot that I only had auto-pause set up for cycling activities on Strava...). Quite proud of myself for resisting the urge to buy and eat a load of crap after this one, because I ended it at M&S in Camden Town to get something for the lunch! Absolutely beautiful morning for it - lovely and warm but kicking through fallen leaves at various points. I really do love autumn running.
Sunday AM - 2km treadmill run & strength. I was supposed to go cycling this morning but I looked out the window at 7:30am and it was terrible so I just rolled back over in the bed for another two hours sleep. Finally hauled my fat ass down to the gym at around 11, still in bucketing rain. Did a 2km treadmill warmup @ 5:45/km pace and then hit the weight room. Overhead press, bent over rows, bench press, squats and assisted pullups. Haven't squatted with decent weight for a while, DOMS incoming...
Sunday PM - 6km run. Fairly standard, 6:25/km average pace. Weather had cleared up a bit and this was very pleasant. Legs feeling the aftereffects of squats though, tomorrow may not be pretty :eek:0 -
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Tuesday - unplanned rest day. Ended up in Wetherspoons for dinner and then curled up on the couch to watch the football. I regret nothing, the Sunday squats had left my legs fecked and I probably shouldn't have run Sunday evening and if any of ye were watching the Arsenal game it was just as manky out as it looked.
Wednesday - legs feeling a lot better so ran this evening, 6km @ 6.21/km average pace. Glad I did, felt really good after. Fireworks going off everywhere for Bonfire Night too 0 -
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