Run

After work evening run clockwise round reservoir - 8.4k.

Difficult in the dark, with a sort of fine mist/rain, making my glasses hard to see out of. Went on the path through the field (first time in the dark - with little cycle LED) to avoid running in the road, which I think contributed to my slightly slower time of 37.58s as I had to slow down through that stretch.

Swim

Went to LA Fitness, still on the BP ticket.

Did 4 sets of 10 lengths (15M) - total 600M

Swim

Went to Windsor pool with Gina. We did a few lengths together, and she is almost as fast as me! Not sure how many, just a few hundred metres.

Run

reservoir anti-clockwise during the day as working at home.

Very windy on last stretch from Honda

time 37.02

Swim

Another nail in the LA Fitness coffin - they took my badge number today. Contractors are going to be banned any day now.

Did 3 lots of 10 laps (15M), then sauna break, then 20 final laps, with the last 4 being as fast as I could go.

admin

This blog isn't really convenient for me for when I'm on holiday or not working. I seem to never get time on those occasions to actually fill in my training. I can usually find a piece of paper to write down my cycling comnputer results, or those of my heart rate monitor (HRM), but these quite often get put in the recycling box, or don't have a date, so are fairly useless.

There are two answers as I see it. One is to get a better HRM that stores data for more than one session and allows uploads to a conputer. These definitely do exist, but cost > £200. The next is to get a small notebook and just write it all in there, and maybe transcribe to a blog.

The previous entries from today back to 26th August will all be entered after today, hopefully my imperfect memory will be good enough, but I'll definitely miss out some training sessions.

Bike

I was in a real quandary this evening, whether to swim/bike or run.

Left work promptly at 5pm to be home for 6.30pm. Wednesday is late adults only evening in the Windsor pool, so that was tempting. The weather was too good to be indoors though. Wednesday is normally my midweek long run day, but that's usually in the park with Carol and Jon, and the thought of pounding the tarmac alone didn't appeal.

I've sent off my entry form for the Tour of The Hills 110km bike ride in 11 days, so with that in mind I decided to get some more miles in on the bike.

I did my usual cycle3 route, and once more tried to make good time at the beginning. This worked, and I also sprinted along past Dorney at 37km/h which I wasreally pleased with. Eventual time was

Time 1:22:??
Average 30.89km/h
Distance 42:??

which I think is another new record.

Only one sour incident - some idiot decided it would be fun to pour water at me from a moving car. RF52 YCB, blue hatchback, probably a Clio, you're a tosspot.

Row/Run

My usual 15 minutes of rowing followed by 15 minutes of running at LA Fitness. Calories burned according to the machines were 187 and 200 kcal