Gym session, run and swim

3 rather sluggish km running, and 2km swimming in 44 minutes.

1000km running completed in 2011!

Made it. 2.01km warm up in the gym, then some rather weedy abs work, and then 3.34km at an average pace of 5'39"/km.

Total distance for 2011: 1000.21km running

Long and Slow

14.81 km from Milltimber along the railway line to near David Lloyd, and back to Milltimber. Average moving pace 5'31"/km.

Not very bouncy in my legs, and quite a lot of short stops - total Garmin time was 1'25'01" and average speed 5'44"/km for the overall performance. Nike+ thought 1'27'52" and 15.14km - making 5'48"/km - including all the elapsed time).

Let's assume the Garmin distance is right: so 19.95-14.81 = 5.14km left to go to reach the target distance!

Triathlon club at David Lloyd

3km on the treadmill (at 6'/km) and some abs work, before a tough swim.

2km in just under an hour, of which 600m was kicking (nightmare), and 300m drills (not so bad)

Gym running

2km warmup and then 5km at 5'11" pace (actually 5' pace with a brief holiday mid way)

977.05 km so far this year. 22.95 km to go

Swimming

Maybe 1.2 km in the pool tonight.

Total distance year to date

Total distance, running, year to date: 972.05km.

27.95km to go - less than 1km/day

Big weekend

Saturday: 10km around Aberdeen while waiting for Meriel's hockey. Intentionally not too fast, but 55'51" (or 5'34"/km) was not bad.

Sunday was a big bike ride of 68 km at an average moving speed of 25.6km/hr - although I still got dropped on all the hills (at least by 2 out of 3 other riders)

Then up to Whitehills with Minnie for a walk/run of 3km, and then a continuous (although slow) run of 2.38km at 5'42"/km (not too bad after the bike ride).

So, added 15.38 km this weekend to the running total

Biking with Three Peaks

41.26 km in 1hr41'26" - average speed 24.4 - ugh. A fair amount of climbing though, and tired legs after yesterday. Quite a bit of drafting too though

Back to the gym - 5km

5km at 5'33"/km, a total of 27'50" for the run. Quite pleasing after the 51km on the bike earlier today!

Longish bike ride (a bit too mosey-ish)

51.16km in 1hr57'27" at an average speed of 26km/hr. Should go quicker next time.

A bit breezy here and there, and roads too wet and brakes too tired to really go for it down hills.

Swimming at David lloyd

2.5km swimming in the hour. 2.2 km in 51 minutes, the rest untamed

Less than 50km to go!

Total running distance so far this year: 951.67km!

Less than 50km to go

Gym again

Lyn was working the upper body today, so back in in the evening for 3 runs, 2km, 2km and 1km. Not very fast, mind you. But another 5km.

Three Peaks Swimming

2km in about 52 minutes, including some drills and hanging around time

In the gym

About 1.9km at 11.5km/hr, at gradients up to 4.3% Hell of a way to start the week!

Methlick Duathlon race day

Last year:
Run1/T1: 27'56"
Bike: 40'12"
T2/Run 2: 22'39"


This year:
Run 1: 25:47 - average pace 5'00"/km as distance 5.16km
T1: 1:01
Bike: 35:47 - average speed 29.3km/hr (only 17.42 km)
T2: 0:43
Run 2: 21:03 - average pace 5'14"/km

Total time 1hr24'24" - 6 minutes 44 seconds better than last time - and faster on every leg. Very pleased - especially with a (nearly) 30km/hr bike leg. Apparently, it's only 17.5 km, so the average speed was 29.3 km/hr. Still a PB for the distance.

Total running distance today: 9.18km

Bennachie (mis)adventure

Went to Bennachie and start out on the Turnpike trail, which seemed easy enough. 2.75km, we'd been walking for a while (judith felt wobbly), so switched off the Garmin. I started it up again probably an hour and 5 km of walking later, as we'd climbed to near the summit before finding the main path down.

Total official distance:3.39km. 6.39km so far in November - the Methlick duathlon tomorrow!

Swimming at the gym

Triathlon training in the gym: warmed up with a total of 3km of running at 10-11km/hr (actually a bit more than 3, but Garmin under-reports by a few tens of metres).

The swim totalled 1,500 m in the hour - about half drills and half swimming. Felt good, and last 50m was in 54", which was pleasing