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A higher state of cardiovascularness
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Friday AM: Feeling a bit better, i extended the swim out to 1500m, swimming really suffered this week, will need to get going again next week
Friday Evening: A new approach was to do the long run this evening and the bike saturday and nothing sunday. This may give the wife the impression in the oncoming months that the weekends weren't so bad with me gone all weekend. Allowing me to look at next year - perhaps its too late though
A right slog of a run, I was going to bin it at 20k but decided to struggle through another 5 so 25k in total at 5.19 pace
Saturday AM: Long bike - I was dreading this but it ended up not being that bad in the end of it all. I even ignored going past the house at 122k and pulled in another 20k to make it 142k. Kept it relatively flat except for some hill repeats at Parkmore and Abbeyknockmoy.
I was wrecked coming home and I am riddled with saddle sores but was in good form as its the last long training ride I will have to do for a long time. 142k @ 26.2kph
Sunday AM: Not quite nothing but next to nothing with Loraine and the kids watching me dressed to the nines in neoprone beside all the skins swimmers in Blackrock. There would be more chop in the swimming pool it was so calm again but once I got going I learnt that I will need to settle into a rhythm quickly in France as a wave of tiredness came over me very shortly into it. Once I adapted to the cold and pace it ended up being a lovely swim, legs felt super high in the water. Ship my Tri bike is coming thursday so will need to go to the sea at least twice more I think but I might be only have time for one more. Approx about 1k swim I reckon
ITS TAPER TIME
Nobody can do taper like I can, it usually involves stags, chocolate, turf and drink and shag all else. No stags on the horizon this year, however as I predicted the brother in law comes over about the turf cutting last night. How are you fixed for monday week, I just have to laugh - I would expect he knows well when the race is on, so the week of the race was always going to be his pick. The mother in law then rings the wife later last night stressed that she hears I am not going to help with the turf - which I didn't say as I tried a non committal approach with him and am just going to pray it rains this week
Ah its nothing I didn't predict anyways - the country in-laws will never understand training/racing, hopefully my legs and back should be better able to handle it with all the training this year. I will see if I can go the weekend on my own so I can finish earlier in the week although he wont like that......he will worry the city boy will stack them wrong :rolleyes:
Monday AM: Presuming some decent swim sessions this week to get me back to speed after last weeks non swimming week will do me no harm. Shoulders were stiff after but got it done. 8 x 396 off 8:00 minutes the first two were slow 7:20s seemed to pick up a bit then and the rest were low 7:10s. 3500m total0 -
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On another note I saw your Collinamuck mates out for a run down the prom on Sunday morning - christ almighty, the wife thought they were strippers with the skimpy clothing and compression wear
They were just in from 135km @ almost 36kmph. Mr G dishing out the hurt in a big way. You should come out with us some morning!!
There'll be a few of us swimming on Wednesday evening 6:30 if you fancy it? 2k+ and not a rubber bootie in sight!!0 -
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They were just in from 135km @ almost 36kmph. Mr G dishing out the hurt in a big way. You should come out with us some morning!!
There'll be a few of us swimming on Wednesday evening 6:30 if you fancy it? 2k+ and not a rubber bootie in sight!!
Can I hang on the back hammering away at 26kph - would I get 10k free speed - it could be a good way of getting the miles in without being gone for so long
Wont get over Wednesday evening - the way its looking I will have to drop gear into Sean Wednesday for pick up thursdayHow's the water? I need to get in soon
I will be going over either today / tomorrow after 8 if you want to come out. Tomorrow more likelyMagdalena Easy Ranch wrote: »CW i am with gibbo on this. Be a selfish prick for the next 2 weeks, last thing you want is to pull a back muscle or something stupid lifting turf. Put it off for a week.
We will see - I went to war a few years in the past over it and it ended up not happening anyways - too early in the week to be agitating to them about it0 -
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That also entails telling the MIL as well, very tempting but no - it becomes very awkward when you see the brother in law and a 60 year old woman slaving away with the turf every night and I am sitting at home being fed grapes off my belly.
Why can't Mrs. C go help with the turf in your place? Her mom's out there slaving away, as you say....so obviously it's not a male-only club. I say give the wife a night off from feeding you grapes off your belly and let her help her mom and brother with a little family turf bonding time. Simples. 0 -
Why can't Mrs. C go help with the turf in your place? Her mom's out there slaving away, as you say....so obviously it's not a male-only club. I say give the wife a night off from feeding you grapes off your belly and let her help her mom and brother with a little family turf bonding time. Simples.
Ya you nailed it Dory - wife is going to take one for the team with her 1st bog experience next week if it goes ahead as planned. You will hear the roars over in Virginia if one of those nails breaks0 -
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I think I'll go a long for a laugh - far better than a photo :pac:
I would say you would get a nosebleed within 20m of a bog - i will be minding kids so no chance of a picture BTH, but heres one of her last year feeding the cows. Nice bit of rain this morning so far
Monday Lunch: 10k - Finally found the strap - heart rate a little higher than expected for this pace 10k @ 4.49 AHR 144
Tuesday AM: Better in the pool this morning, 4 x 396 off 8 minutes and 5 x 216 off 4 minutes. Times were much improved on yesterday with low 7 minutes for the 396s and the 216ms were coming in the 3.40s as well. 3k swim
Tuesday Evening: Went to Blackrock for a swim, certainly not billiard table conditions tonight there was a nice swell. The current helped as while I was being thrown all over the place I was flying down. I was a bit worried about coming back because of this but I was comforted by the thought I had a ex lifeguard, Bay swimmer, fish on my feet as he was too gracious to go ahead. I turned around at the buoy and no sign of the bollox, too cold for him he said so he swam back to shore. While it was great training considering I havent been in the sea in any kind of chop since Kenmare last year it was certainly not the most enjoyable swim I have had. I was glad I had the tower to sight off as I had no chance of spotting the buoys unless I looked right on the top of a wave
Wednesday AM: I have to drop the bike over for Ship my Tri bike today so I spent last night looking at Youtube movies on how to use Co2 cartridges. Looks ok
Bloody wetsuit is soaked so I have it up beside the boiler to try and get it dry for packing later
I was going to go for a cycle but after all the cleaning and putting on the bling wheels I decided I wasn't going out in that ****e weather - I popped down to the pool more for a quick sauna and jacussi though, shoulders were stiff after last night and I wanted to take it easy0 -
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RacoonQueen wrote: »Glad my bike isn't being picked up until Saturday...more time for procrastination
The packing was surprisingly stress free - till Mrs C arrives in with her runners looking for space in the bag - I knew my goose was cooked when she saw two helmets in the bag. *
* I am a bit worried that it might be too hot for my aero helmet
Needless to say my road helmet didn't make the cut in the end of it all - if i am going to overheat I am going to do it looking good :cool:0 -
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