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Winter Miles, Summer Smiles
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Sun 2:45 easy turbo, 15min run off bike.
The plan said some structure, tempo and threshold segments in the bike session, so I forego'ed (forewent? Great word
) the outside spin in favour of keeping an eye on turbo numbers. Alas, after an easy hour I found it very difficult to raise the power, so I resigned myself to keep it easy throughout. 145W av, which felt harder than it should have. My PM battery reading flashed up low during the session, perhaps thats an a excuse, but I'd say tiredness was more the reason.
Run was 5 mins steady (4:25/km pace), and 10 mins easy. Took a while to get rid of jellylegs, more brics like this needed.0 -
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Fri 18th-25th Club La Santa
The kids swim club were on a training week, I was a Team Leader so everything was structured around their (35 kids) two hours in the morning, two hours in the evening, activities in between, and breakfast/lunch/dinner in between. Everything went very well, my own training was what I could grab mainly while sharing deck duties at the fantastic 50m pools. There's no point in listing every session, so I'll just group them together under relevant headings.
Diet
I had hoped to lose 2kg but there was too much food to tempt so will make do with keeping things stable just under 90kg at weeks end. Lots of fish, lots of fruit, very little alcohol or coffee.
Stretching
There were structured stretching classes throughout the day, for an hour at a time, and I went to four of these. Found them very useful, and I've a catalog of stretches for shoulders and back that I can use in future.
Bike
Lanza looks a great place for spins, with free bike rental available, but alas I didn't get any time away for this. 20 mins on an exercise bike was the sum of my riding.
Run
Thought I would get in more runs but the whole weeks was more intense than I expected (looking after the kids), so just got a couple of trail runs in. They were very enjoyable, a great way to explore the volcanic terrain around the resort. Nothing of note distance wise (5.5k and 12k). Otherwise I did a 200m race on the track against one of the kids, as part of a group relay. Took off like I was 15 years old and managed to hold a decent sprinting form for 100m before my body reminded me I am quite a bit older! Great fun though.
Swim
With three 50m heated outdoor pools available, it was always going to be a swim-specific week. Got about 20K+ done, mainly working on my streamline position and rotation. I found the 50m pool challenging at first, but soon grew to like it, and it would be my preferance given the choice of LC or SC. I kept things steady-distance focused, lots of pb work. Hard to tell regarding improvements, but I was swimming a lot faster towards the end of the week than at the start. Comparing previous times when next in a 25m pool will be the real test.
I got some decent swim advice from the coaches, and besides that it was an education watching the various swimmers (and triathletes) from the stands.
Kids
Since it was all about the kids, everyone seemed to benefit from this week-long camp. It was a big step up for most of them (including my own two), and there was some herding involved in getting them up for a 7am swim start after finishing swimming at 7pm the night before... But they did very well.
Thursday 24th March 2016 will be remembered as the date Junior usurped his dad. He did a 8*100free off 8mins session, clocking a fastest 1:13 (to my 1:14 at Limerick Masters gala), and kept all of them between 1:13-1:18. Mighty stuff
Missy threw herself into the whole week, embracing the challenge with gusto. She was moved up a lane for a session mid-week to see how she would handle it, she worked her socks off so they kept her there the rest of the week and she flogged herself to stay with the bigger fish. At awards night she got Female Swimmer of the Week, and I was happiest dad on the island
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Mon 2,850m Masters swim
400m wu
10*25 odds kick, evens drill, 10s
20*100 odds on 1:35, evens on 1:25 (17*100 done, times drifted to 1:45/1:35)
400m wd
The extra volume of swimming last week led to a nagging pain in my shoulder (where the arrow is in the pic below, Dr. Dory
), exacerbated by throwing a football with my NFL mad son between swims. It slowed me today, not much pain but enough to annoy. Now its hurting when I lift my arm- feels like inflamed tendons.
A few days away from the pool won't harm anyway.
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A labradoodle (labrador/poodle mix). He's full of energy, reckon he'll be a good runner in a while. Right now we have a very indignant smaller dog and cat who have tolerated each other for the past 8 years who are highly suspicious of this newcomer!
Yes, bike handling has suffered, no doubt. Hope to get out in the fresh air more often now its not icy/cold/wet. But I'll take the turbo gains over slow turnpikes any day 0 -
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Ohhhhh.....mind that shoulder!!! Do not do anything that aggravates it!!! And if you tend to use paddles (do you??), toss those damn things in the bin! !!!!!
Yeah having a shoulder injury is very weird! Reckon a combination of volume and paddles in Lanza may have contributed- paddles will be off the menu for a while! 0 -
^ Everything was off the menu as my cough got much worse, I was a streak of misery and felt crap. Finally visited the Doc who said I had bronchitis and prescribed anti-b's and inhaler for 3 months, along with the all important TUE note. Seems to be doing the trick so far, I don't feel like elastic bands are constricting my chest for the first time in ages.
Today was a swim gala, I'll be living competition through my kids for a while. Missy did 1:45 for 100 breast, which is a pb but she is pissed she didn't go faster. Attagirl. Junior was put in the first heat of his 100m free, since he had no previous gala time he was among younger newbies. This meant he was home before second place even hit 75, but he had no competition and thats what pushes you along. He still swam 1:11, for a PB, and further cementing his reputation as king shark in the household 0 -
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Kurt_Godel wrote: »Today was a swim gala, I'll be living competition through my kids for a while. Missy did 1:45 for 100 breast, which is a pb but she is pissed she didn't go faster. Attagirl. Junior was put in the first heat of his 100m free, since he had no previous gala time he was among younger newbies. This meant he was home before second place even hit 75, but he had no competition and thats what pushes you along. He still swam 1:11, for a PB, and further cementing his reputation as king shark in the household
I'm still not sure whether I felt pride or shame when my ten year old's 100m fs PB eclipsed mine:o There's nothing like a kids gala to make you realise how poor you really are at swimming, the day I saw an under 10's 100m fs being won in under 1.15 really brought it home to me.0 -
How's the shoulder?
Its feeling better day by day, but still a niggle there. I'll chance swimming tonight maybe in the slow lane.griffin100 wrote: »I'm still not sure whether I felt pride or shame when my ten year old's 100m fs PB eclipsed mine:o There's nothing like a kids gala to make you realise how poor you really are at swimming, the day I saw an under 10's 100m fs being won in under 1.15 really brought it home to me.
"pride or shame" thats it in a nutshell! Its amazing to watch fast kids, they make it look so easy. 0 -
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