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    #452
    Keeks
    Registered Users Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭Keeks


    El Director wrote: »
    I've done the new TR ramp test for my latest two FTP

    You can do the ramp test n Zwift too......GP lama has done a workout for it and can be found on https://whatsonzwift.com ..... there is actually some other good workouts here too if you havent seen this before...


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    #453
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Keeks wrote: »
    You can do the ramp test n Zwift too......GP lama has done a workout for it and can be found on https://whatsonzwift.com ..... there is actually some other good workouts here too if you havent seen this before...

    Thanks, those FTP tests also use the free ride functionality. Will just go back to my old approach!


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    #454
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Week back in work and not been a good week for training. Doing a local park run in the morning to baseline the running. Technical enough course but will give it a lash. A lad from work doing it as well, he is also doing IM Cork and we work very closely together, former inter-county Dublin hurler and definitely some competition going on. Should be fun. Other than that a spin planned for the weekend and a swim tonight.


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    #455
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Hurler dude bailed. First park run 21.10

    Sh1t but a marker.
    181 bpm avg, 87 max

    Left hip flexor a limiter from hitting expected avg and max but at best would have be 20 sec.

    Need to get that sorted.


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    #456
    Kurt.Godel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Kurt.Godel


    tunney wrote: »
    Sh1t but a marker.

    Sh1t, good, bad, indifferent... good to see any sort of marker up here. That's what you did today and kudos for it; onwards and upwards.


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    #457
    El Director
    Registered Users Posts: 4,117 ✭✭✭El Director


    Kurt.Godel wrote: »
    Sh1t, good, bad, indifferent... good to see any sort of marker up here. That's what you did today and kudos for it; onwards and upwards.

    +1


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    #458
    tunney
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    Disaster of a week. Some sort of a flu, into what I can only call exercise induced nosebleeds. Effort goes up, nose bleeds, session over. Fvcking annoying.


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    #459
    peter kern
    Registered Users Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭peter kern


    tunney wrote: »
    Disaster of a week. Some sort of a flu, into what I can only call exercise induced nosebleeds. Effort goes up, nose bleeds, session over. Fvcking annoying.

    I have that too from time to time ( the nosebleed) I just keep going at slight slower pace and put a bit of tissue in nose. ( I guess that's why like Ireland as it happens much more frequently at dry air...)


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    #460
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Cheers for that Peter. Good to know that it is not just me. Seems to have cleared up now mind.

    Although healthy I am missing the motivation. Something just isn't there. Is it something bigger than tri that's causing it? I just don't know.


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    #461
    mloc123
    Registered Users Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    tunney wrote: »
    Cheers for that Peter. Good to know that it is not just me. Seems to have cleared up now mind.

    Although healthy I am missing the motivation. Something just isn't there. Is it something bigger than tri that's causing it? I just don't know.

    Is Tri what you actually want to do... or are doing it because that is what you know?


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    #462
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    mloc123 wrote: »
    Is Tri what you actually want to do... or are doing it because that is what you know?

    More than tri I suppose, more of a general lack of Joie de vivre I suppose.


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    #463
    peter kern
    Registered Users Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭peter kern


    i would suggest break it down into smaller things

    work first on getting 5 k time down and actually enjoy training rather than entering a race which you think will make you train for it .


    mlocs question is a good one because at the end of the day it will never be as it was ,and being pissed off with the current numbers or missed training is not going to help. at the same time being a bit fitter is always a good thing .


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    #464
    mloc123
    Registered Users Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OArKXKj5PeU

    I watched this recently... it put things in perspective, a decade and all that goes with it (marriage, kids, job etc..) has a big impact on priorities.
    Over the last few years I would not even start a race, what was the point... my times and performance would be nowhere near my 2010/11 season. I think at some point you need to just re-evaluate what you want from it all.


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    #465
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    New month, time to get some training in. Work nuts and will remain so will need to work on time management and work life balance....

    Some goals for February

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    #466
    BTH
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    Rough guesstimates that equates 15.5 hours a week.

    Over ambitious to the point of being counter productive??


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    #467
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    BTH wrote: »
    Rough guesstimates that equates 15.5 hours a week.

    Over ambitious to the point of being counter productive??

    Cycling includes commuting time so single digits once that is out :)


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    #468
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    F**k it, fractured my toe.


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    #469
    El Director
    Registered Users Posts: 4,117 ✭✭✭El Director


    tunney wrote: »
    F**k it, fractured my toe.

    Sh1te Dave. How did that happen? How was training going?


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    #470
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Training was returning to decent ish.

    I was tired and going to bed and stubbed my toe hard on the point of a wooden door frame. Idiot thing to do!


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    #471
    mloc123
    Registered Users Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    tunney wrote: »
    Training was returning to decent ish.

    I was tired and going to bed and stubbed my toe hard on the point of a wooden door frame. Idiot thing to do!

    Tape it up, you'll be grand ;)


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    #472
    El Director
    Registered Users Posts: 4,117 ✭✭✭El Director


    tunney wrote: »
    Training was returning to decent ish.

    I was tired and going to bed and stubbed my toe hard on the point of a wooden door frame. Idiot thing to do!

    Ouch! That was unfortunate. Good luck with the recovery!


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    #473
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Few days away there with Tango and JackyBack

    510 km of riding with 7470m vertical in 20.5 hours

    Few drinks, some good good and some running and swimming.

    Good craic. Just need to keep it up.


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    #474
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    "You don't know man, you weren't there."


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    #475
    peter kern
    Registered Users Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭peter kern


    one of my favorite race repeorts ever straight to the point

    i have only one question will you go back next year?


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    #476
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    peter kern wrote: »
    one of my favorite race repeorts ever straight to the point

    i have only one question will you go back next year?

    No. I would not.

    The bike course is the problem for me. The roads are too narrow, the surface too bad. There are bohereens for bits (albeit hollywood style bohereens rather than Brazilian ones). People had to ride on the crown of the road, hard to over take.
    The descents usually were sharp, short and ended in a hard right so was frustrating.

    Road was grand and so would have been the swim, volunteers and support were excellent but also a pattern of short cost avoidance measures that bothered me too.

    So no. However I am glad that I did the inaugural, and possibly penultimate, Ironman Cork.


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    #477
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Since Cork I've managed a 10, 20 and 30 minute run. Patella tendons still quite sore.

    Two turbos and the usual 20km a day cycling.

    Stiff and sore to be honest.


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    #478
    Baby75
    Registered Users Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭Baby75


    Hang in there it and I hope your feeling better soon

    do you strap the knee I found that helped untill it was fully healed get your self to physio if needed though


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    #479
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Baby75 wrote: »
    Hang in there it and I hope your feeling better soon

    do you strap the knee I found that helped untill it was fully healed get your self to physio if needed though

    On the patella tendons I tend to avoid doing anything until they are right. I know what I need to do to avoid getting tendinosis/Tendinitis and to shift the pain.

    I'm sure I'll return to no suffering and issues soon!


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    #480
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    My wife was away last week so couldn't post until now......

    I was cycling to work last Tuesday and a pedestrian stepped out in front of me without looking. I braked hard and swerved and i *think* I didn't connect, certainly not hard if I did. However I went down hard enough and in the middle of the road. Car following behind me whacked me in the back of the head with (guess here) its bumper. Needless to say I did not get back up.


    Helmet dead but it did its work.

    Nothing broken, elbow sore (very), neck and back fecked and a concussion. Off work and in bed since (mostly).

    Ah well, still alive!


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    #481
    woody1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,902 ✭✭✭woody1


    bloody hell, :eek:

    good luck with recovery


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