Cold cycle

Cold and slightly snowy (sort of snowy drizzle). First ride over the hill to Echt - 14.5k3m at 20.8km/hr (very slow). Then faster from Echt to Westhill, and back through Kirkton of Skene, Dunecht and Cluny, 32.05km at 26.0km/hr - much better (but flatter)

Beach run

Running with Minnie on the beach. 6.1km at around 6'24" moving pace. Glacial. Partly be because on a beach, partly because of training with Lyn the day before...

Tempo swim

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

Hungover waddle around Whitehills

Very slow and painful - lots of walking, and average moving pace of 5'58"/km over 7.44km But average overall pace of 7'21"/km - including all the stops for Minnie

Saturday ride

From Inverurie to Rothienorman, Oldmeldrum and back to Inverurie. 40km at 25.4km/hr. ok but not quick enough. 4 minutes slower than my best (although that was a race day (but had 264m ascent compared with 200m today)

Gym session

2km warming up at around 11km/hr Then 4 km in rough intervals: up to 12.8km/hr, but not for long, cruise at around 10km/hr (dreadful) The 1 km tempo swim in the pool: 20'22" - not too bad, and reasonably fishlike

And we're off for 2013

January 1st: very windy walk up Bennachie with Judith and Minnie January 2nd: 2 bike rides: warm up clockwise around Pitmunie at 24.5km/hr (6.8km) then time trial loop to Kemnay: 27.0km/hr (13.6km) Total 20.4km