Row & Run

Row: 15 minutes - 180 calories, can't remember the rest
Run: 15 minutes - 190 calories, running at 2% incline.

La Fitness.

Swim

La Fitness: 400M inermittent, then break, then 10*15M continuous.

My new front crawl regime is to try and swim a bit faster, and have shorter breaks between laps. Need to work out how to keep swimming even when I'm tired.

Bike

Route3: 42Km: 1:24.30 approx

Nice early start at 8.20am, in the summer sun - hard to remember now the leggings and gloves and freezing feet. Mum is staying so even if the SBR lot are meeting, didn't want to be away till 11:30 or so.

Haven't been out on the bike for 3 weeks, which is really bad. I was feeling sore by the end, and could hardly walk up the stairs afterwards. Not going to let that happen again.

Still, it was a pretty good time - keeping my average over 30km/h is the current aim on this route.

Swim

LA Fitness: lots.

After the events of yesterday, the office is empty today.

Did as many laps in an hour as I could, it was good not having to rush back so fast. I do feel as if I am getting stronger in the water.

Run

LA Fitness: 30 minutes; 5.5km; 11km/h

Set the machine for program 1 which varies the hills and speeds. Really hard at times on incline 6%. Not sure how the speed decides itself, but it moves around a lot. There are no hills near the house to run up, so I think this practice is valuable. My feet are suffering a bit at the moment though from the pounding they take.

Swim

I'm still a rubbish swimmer, but I've had an idea about why this is. I've never developed my upper body strength enough to allow me to swim any distance without getting tired. Consider running and other land based exercise. The first time you go out, you run far too far, and the next day (and the one after that especially) your leg muscles really ache. This is because they are torn, and are repairing themselves stronger than before.

When I go swimming, after about 50 metres, I'm too tired to coordinate properly, and so cannot breath, and so I have to stop for a rest. So my swimming exercise is in small intervals and I never really build up any stamina. I've never suffered sore arm or shoulder muscles after swimming.

So, new plan. More rowing and strength training for upper body in the gym. More swimming when tired to push myself to the limit. Only last year I was incapable of more than about 15M front crawl. Now I can do 50M. With some proper effort I hope I can learn to keep going even when tired, like I can when I'm running.

General

I've been away from the blog for a while, which is understandable I guess, as I was on holiday, and busy at work, and had finished my triathlon. I'm back now, and deciding whether to continue on this site or to set up a sister blog on my proper page - I still want to keep the triathlon posts separate.

I haven't actually stopped exercising, this has been going on apace. I may fill in some times I've recorded, but I'm not sure whether this is necessary. The weekly sunday morning bike ride as slipped, but I'm going running and swimming just as much. The general trend is that if I haven't done anything for two days, then on the third day I definitely exercise.

I've decided to give myself a new goal, a full triathlon in Windsor next July. I'm going to do a proper training plan for the winter, but will do general training and maybe a few shorter events until then.

Bike

Just found some times I noted from a while back during the blogging break, but never put in here. Both for cycle3. Guessin the dates in June and putting this blog entry on the 1st

time 1:24:37
average 30.14
max 48.31
distance 42.49


time 1:23:22
average 30.63
max 50.06
distance 42.55

I think that second one might be my current record.