Swimming and running

8th March: 2.5km swimming in lumps of 1km, 3 x 500m First 1km ok speed, others in freestyle at 2'07"/100m (slower than 2' target) 10th March: treadmill run: 6km at 11km/hr. Wanted to go long, but snowy day and bursitis prevented it. Decided not to run Garioch 1/2M, but try the 10k. Discovered the 10k is full, so registered for the 5. 24 minutes maybe? 12th March: 2km tempo swim in 40'40" (2'02"/100m). First 1km was 9 seconds over 20 minutes. Second 1km was 30 seconds over. Felt fishy for the first time in a while though, and pushing down on chest to pop legs up seemed to work too.

Tempo swim

1 km in 20'41" in the James Bond speedos. Felt longish, but not very quick. Tried hard to be fishy.

Gym and then Whitehills

Into the gym: 2km on the treadmill at 5'13"/km, then a 1km tempo swim in 20'40". Then 500 more meters, alternating breastroke and crawl, apparently in 10'21" (which I don't really believe). then took Minnie to a snowy Whitehills, where I ran/walked 3.57km at 6'15" average moving pace

Gym again

2km in the pool in 43'36" (21'15" first 1 km, 22'17" second 1km), then a muscly session with Lyn, including a 2km warmup at 12km/hr at 0-5% incline

Training, training

Two sessions with Lyn in two days, but only 2km added to the total (albeit at 12km/hr and gradients up to 5%.

And another 250km swimming tonight - 5'15" - not fast enough, and didn't really feel the lats working today. But tired after gym session (is my excuse)

I've decided to capture biking in gym as "recumbent cycling", whereas turbo training will be "indoor cycling".

Three Peaks starts again

5.12 km around Inverurie, at 5'28"/km, and then 1.75km in the pool in a series of moderate pace and 1 in 4 lengths a sprint

Gym again

5.15 km at 11km/hr on the treadmill (although the Garmin was a bit less generous on distance and speed), then a 1km swim slightly faster than yesterday

First swim

After a toughish session with Lyn (with lots of arms and shoulders work), a very leisurely 1km swim in 23'5"

Gym sessions

Wednesday: 2km at 11km/hr warmup, tempo run 5km at 12.2km (24'43").

Thursday: 2km at 11km/hr warm up, 2km swim in 42'36"

Distance added: 9km running

Gym session, run and swim

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

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)

Swimming at David lloyd

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

Three Peaks Swimming

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

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

Swimming training in the gym

250m pre warm up
400m warm up
200m drill training
400m swim/drill
400m distance
150m cool down

1800m total. Good effort, especially with a 2km warm up run and minor gym session beforehand

Total October running distance: 75.39km

Swim training

Between 1600 and 1800 m in the pool tonight. And this after a tough abs/legs strength session in the gym today. That VIPR is a killer!


Apologies for brevity - posted from my iPhone

Gym swim

Grabbed a window of opportunity for a 1500m swim in the pool - wearing new "parachute pants" which increased my stroke count from 16 (best) to about 20! No idea how fast, but at least a few metres added

Monday night, training night

9.79km at 5'23"/km, then 1.3 km in the pool over an hour (notionally technical training.

Swimming 5.2 REKs

What a day

Starting in the gym, with 2.07 km on the treadmill at 12 km/hr and a gradient of 4, then 3, then 4 for the last 2 minutes.

Then a recovery run around Inverurie, 7.56km at an average pace of about 5'30". Then 2.15 km swimming with Three Peaks.

And the gym again tomorrow morning!

Swimming training

An unproductive session tonight, focussing on trickle breathing (but really lots of standing around at the ends of the pool).

About 1,600 m in all, I think.