Since the last post (14th August) I've still been exercising fairly regularly, but not recording the results here. So here is a quick summary, though I know I have some bike times written down that I can hopefully upload later.
Went to Cuba for a holiday, and swam in the sea every day. My swimming really improved, perhaps not in technique, but in arm strength.
I also cycled on a stationary bike in the gym maybe 6 times, for 30 minutes a time. There were no readouts, and I was checking just my calories from my polar heart rate monitor, and this ranged from 320 to 360.
I didn't run at all. My ankle sprain really scuppered my running this year.
Since returning back to work I've been doing weekend cycles of between 50 and 90 km. I've been going to the gym and cycling shorter times obviously. I've done a few treadmill sessions, trying to get my legs working again without crapming up my calfs. I've done a run in Richmond park with Carol and Jon which was very slow at 48 minutes, and left me very sore for two days. However, I think I've gotten over the pain now and am back to almost normal running.
I've been swimming about once a week - 30 - 60 lengths in the LA Fitness 15M pool. Once I went to Windsor Leisure Pool and managed approximately 1500M of mostly crawl, but this took me nearly one hour.
Of course, I've been cycling to work as well on my Brompton, and along with various other journeys, am averaging about 50 miles a week on that (two trips to the passport agency in Victoria in the pouring rain being particular high(low)lights.
So, all in all, I've been maintaining fitness in a rather haphazard way, and need to get more structured for the coming winter.
