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Awh Dilbert, your post above brought a tear to my eye. Mrs. D has had an unbelievable year, as have you and I've no doubt that Mrs. Ds success is attributed in no small part to your support and encouragement. It sounds like ye make a great team. Maybe you could steer her in the direction of Coast2Coast this year? Ye could enter as a team .......
Happy New Year C, I've no doubt that you'll hit all of the targets that you've set out for the year (and most likely only tell us about half of them). I wish you and your super energetic family a happy and healthy year and many PBs
Thank you for all your support and advice during the year, you're a ray of sunshine 0 -
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Yesterday: nothing. The sunny south east wasn't (well it was still the south east but...). Planned a turbo session but got into trying to sort out an event calendar and the morning went away from me very quickly. It's not easy to coordinate my Tri calendar, my AR calendar, Mrs. D's marathon calendar, Master D's athletics, Tri & music calendars and Miss D's basketball calendar and I haven't managed it yet - I suspect it won't be final till it's finished. Anyway enough of that. Had visitors for dinner so spent the afternoon preparing and cooking and the evening eating.
Today: Cycle with Master D. Had considered going to Wexford town to meet some tri club people for a 70k cycle but got my timing wrong (I.e. slept too late). Just as well. This was, I think, my first time on my bike since SCAR in the middle of Oct
. And it felt it. Went out towards Wexford and we were both feeling good. When we turned after a half hour we realised why: we were facing into a head wind. Still we got it done: 28.83km in 1:08; avg 25.3km/hr, 140bpm, 85rpm. From little acorns... 0 -
I always knew you had good taste, but your list of your 5 biggest sporting influences proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt!
( on behalf of the hoochies, thank you!) And what an interesting (and valuable) statistic - your planned vs. actual numbers. I suspect if you can work thru the reason for the discrepancy and conclude what reasonable and realistic training for you looks like, then your goals and targets might become clearer to you.
But honestly, what a wonderful year you and Mrs. D had - you two are the dynamic duo!! And I agree with Needy - you are a ray of sunshine around here, so thank you for shining (and smiling) down on all of us! Happy New Year to you and your family. 0 -
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Spent most of the day in Kilkenny with Miss D - her basketball team were playing in a blitz. They got to the semi-final where they were edged out by one basket and she scored in all of the games, so well happy.
Sunday evening swim:
11x25m w/u
4x25m with hand paddles & pull buoy
6x25m FC
3x250m IM (25 FC, 50 BC, 75 BS & 100 FC) in 6:02, 6:06, 6:05 with 2 min rest
3x25m c/d FC with hand paddles & pull buoy
Total 1250m in 36:43.
I love my new Garmin Swim! 0 -
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Maybe you could steer her in the direction of Coast2Coast this year? Ye could enter as a team ......
Nearly missed replying to this. Alas no. Mrs. D is a committed road runner. Trail is not really her thing, though she might conceivably be persuaded. She doesn't however, under any circumstances, do boats. So a 26.5km kayak would rule her out.
Come to think of it my experience in a kayak at the Blackstairs AR would predict that 2 days wouldn't be adequate for me to complete the kayak, never mind the rest of it.
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Nearly missed replying to this. Alas no. Mrs. D is a committed road runner. Trail is not really her thing, though she might conceivably be persuaded. She doesn't however, under any circumstances, do boats. So a 26.5km kayak would rule her out.
Come to think of it my experience in a kayak at the Blackstairs AR would predict that 2 days wouldn't be adequate for me to complete the kayak, never mind the rest of it.
It's a double kayak if you're in a pair (so you've help) and they move quite quickly. I'd only been kayaking twice before C2C and one of them was a disaster as I was out of the kayak more time than I was in it. You'd be grandFirst day back to work and lucky to be healthy & employed enough to do so. Have an earful of this:
https://youtu.be/oHs98TEYecM
Happy 2016!
You're always on the positives Happy first day back at work for 2016 0 -
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Now considering going home, getting shaved and dressed for work, having breakfast and going to bed. Arms might not be working too well tomorrow I suspect.
Putting your seatbelt on will be the toughest
Fair play, if you're close to barfing, you're bloody well pushing it. I'd love to able swim so hard that I'm close to barfing some day. 0 -
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Fitness assessment - general measurement of current state (conclusion was I'm a shade overweight,
WTF Really? Were the scales broken? If that's the case, there's no hope for me.
I'm gonna focus on planting that tree now and see how it grows.
That's a nice way of putting it 0 -
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Didn't get there. Bringing it to warm up before the test and hit a huge pothole. Front suspension broke. Currently waiting on recovery truck. Even going to miss club swim tonight. Sickened.
Oh no, I'm so sorry. What an absolute dose. I'm sure you've done it already but take lots of pics of the pothole and the car and have a chat with your local councillor. There's an important date coming up when they might value your support.
Honestly that's just unbelievable ..... and you're missing your swim :mad:0 -
And that's how easy it is (for me) to fall out of routine. The rest of the week after the above debacle was, as far as I can remember, a bit of a write-off getting the car fixed, etc. That weekend I got out on the bike for about 80km (I'm claiming it as part swim, part run - ended up soaked and freezing). Nothing on Monday and club swim on Tuesday.
This started well and ended badly. Left foot cramped near the end but the final set involved sprints and seal jumps out of the pool. This was going fine till the 4th when my exuberant exit coincided with a savage right calf cramp that put an immediate stop to my gallop. Crap way to end a session. Was hobbling for the rest of the week (as I remained determined to avoid the Physioterrorist and her dry needles).
Friday, Saturday and Sunday driving. Flew to Germany on Monday for work, complete with swimming and running gear. Didn't manage a swim but got out for two runs around Leipzig. Only met one lone runner in the two runs but she reciprocated my wave and Guten Morgen.
First venture into the gym the following day (upper body + some of the core set) with a nice, pacey 10k trail run the following day. Sunday was a 60-odd km cycle with Master D followed by a swim. Not ideal sequencing, as it turned out, because I got a wicked left hamstring cramp (a first for me) about halfway through that cut the session short. Probably not stretching enough after training and maybe not enough magnesium in my diet either. Recovered after a shower, etc.
Nothing on Monday then club swim on Tuesday. Still loving these. Oryx was in the next lane and on several occasions I got the opportunity to delude myself that I was matching her stroke for stroke. Thing was, when I'd get to the turn I'd launch myself off the wall as she was hitting the halfway mark. A couple of times she caught up with me for a length and quickly lost me again. I soon got over the excitement of swimming with an iron athlete. But Coach rescued the mood by announcing that what we're doing in the novice lane is "starting to look like swimming". High praise indeed.
Wednesday and Thursday were again athletically unproductive due to work (home late, eat dinner, resume work till midnight). Late out of work again on Friday and nothing else done.
Saturday was gym day: first try of Day 2 of my plan - lots of barbell work and I (eventually) managed the full core set this time. Was left with the feeling that I'll have to up the weights for it to have any benefit.
Today: Tried to get out of bed - discovered those barbells had quite enough weight. Glutes aching. Went for a nice hilly 16k (80 min) run with Mrs D - she's going to Donadea next week. Abs are aching now but it's all good.
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Above is the most pathetic litany of excuses for a training log entry you'll hopefully read this year.
Excuses: 10 Achievement: 0
This evening I grabbed a 12-week training plan off one of the Tri magazine's websites. I'm taking it on and I'm going to do it through. I've no goal at the end but to feed into the next one for end July racing but my ad hoc training is poo and needs to change. No more excuses. (And no more whining about work and broken cars).0 -
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I agree with Needy, you're honestly not doing a bad job at all. Really. And the addition of a plan is brilliant! It will give you structure and some focus. Just make sure the plan isn't too ambitious...keep it realistic and don't be hard on yourself if life gets in the way. 0
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