Back to the gym (3)

For the first time in a month, I was back in the gym with Lyn. The core's held up well (gymball planks anyone), and a new running speedwork treat.

1.85km in 1 minute chunks at 6.5, 13, 6.5, 14, 6.5, 15, 6.5, 16, 6.5, 16.5, 6.5, 17 km/hr. Brutal but nearly made the last one!

Also a 1.02 km warm down, lumping along.

And then in the evening, 1,850m swimming almost all front crawl, with some occasional three-breathing. Now digesting swimming pool water

Back to Whitehills

On a lovely sunny evening - 6.71km (although the first 0.5km was mostly walking up the hill). Total distance this week 22.3km, and a total of 90.7 this month. Pace was ok at 5'28" per km. If you exclude the first 0.5km taking about 5 minutes, it's 5'8"per km

Sort of biathlon

Today I went for a 20km cycle and 5km run, which was not too much fun, but as I survived I thought it was time to launch the JustGiving page for the West Wight Triathlon. Since the beginning of the year, I've run nearly 500km, and I've seen my average speed creep from 6 minutes/km to better than 5'30" and even 5 minutes/I'm sometimes.

So I'm getting more confident that I can finish the WWT in less than 2 hours 30.

All contributions on the just giving page would be very welcome.

Cheers!