Head for the Hills!
Okay - first things first! I've decided to make Sunday my weigh in day, as it's the first day of my training week. And this week...it's good news! Somehow, in spite of all my grumbling of a few days ago, the weights plummeted to way below what it was. I did have a dodgy tum a couple of days ago, which I think was responsible for part of it, and then another three pounds seems to have come off since yesterday!! I did wonder whether it was dehydration or not, but from past experience any effects of that have gone by the next morning, so who knows? That now puts me at thirteen stone twelve :oD. Heck - even if a couple of pounds goes back on, say from glycogen replenishment (long, heavily branched chains of alpha-glucos, don't ya know?), I'll still be at fourteen stone dead :oD
Anyway - onto the bike ride! We'd arranged to meet at 2:30, I got there a bit late, and there were two missing. Limey (I think) turned up just after me, and we waited ten more minutes for triathlonlad, who didn't show.
I managed to balls up teh Garmin again, forgetting to start it again after Box Hill and the cake stop! Anyway - I could describe the whole journey, but a lot of it was like other routes (it was a Box Hill loop plus the loop I did mid week), so I won't bother.
The trip to the Rainbow Centre and back added eight miles, and the route was 42, so that made - 50 :oD. 3:34, some hanging about making sure the group was okay, and very hilly - but even so I need to work on speed and get that down to three hours, and be able to keep going at that pace. My target for Ironman is seven hours, but I'd ideally like to beat that (as long as it doesn't leave my legs fecked for the marathon).
Legs were a bit tired when I woke up - just a bit heavy, but I've been out for a six mile run through Nonsuch. I did feela smidge glycogen depleted in places (in spite of pasta etc before and after the bike ride), but managed it in 50:30, and I wasn't even trying super hard. Must get more runs in thsi weeka s that was my first for 2 weeks.
Anyway - onto the bike ride! We'd arranged to meet at 2:30, I got there a bit late, and there were two missing. Limey (I think) turned up just after me, and we waited ten more minutes for triathlonlad, who didn't show.
I managed to balls up teh Garmin again, forgetting to start it again after Box Hill and the cake stop! Anyway - I could describe the whole journey, but a lot of it was like other routes (it was a Box Hill loop plus the loop I did mid week), so I won't bother.
The trip to the Rainbow Centre and back added eight miles, and the route was 42, so that made - 50 :oD. 3:34, some hanging about making sure the group was okay, and very hilly - but even so I need to work on speed and get that down to three hours, and be able to keep going at that pace. My target for Ironman is seven hours, but I'd ideally like to beat that (as long as it doesn't leave my legs fecked for the marathon).
Legs were a bit tired when I woke up - just a bit heavy, but I've been out for a six mile run through Nonsuch. I did feela smidge glycogen depleted in places (in spite of pasta etc before and after the bike ride), but managed it in 50:30, and I wasn't even trying super hard. Must get more runs in thsi weeka s that was my first for 2 weeks.
posted by XFR Bear @ 10:21 am
2 Comments:
Well done that's stonking!
yeah - unlikely to last I suspect but obviously even if it bounces back a couple of pounds, it's still progress!
Bike is feeling good - feeling like I'm overheating - dunno if it's a raised metabolic rate or what - woke up like it
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