Tuesday 13 July 2010
No rubber ring required!
As we draw closer (32 days) to Copenhagen Ironman my coach Steve focus's alters my training regime to reduce the endurance element as the hard work is "almost over" and increase the intensity of the sessions i.e. get the pain over quicker. Todays swim involved 5 x 100m warm up, a 35 min continual swim (about 1,500m if I counted right but can't be sure) and 8 x 50m warm down. I was asked to leave out the pull buoy which keeps my bum higher in the water like a wetsuit would, and obviously this makes the swim harder. So I did and yes it was harder but I tried to maintain my stroke throughout - apologies to the Athelite Triathlon Club swimmers who had to keep overtaking me! The rest of the week will involve two bike rides, one run and an open water swim before my training camp in the heat the following week.
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Hi Derek,
ReplyDeletegood to chat to you this morning. I've enjoyed perusing your blog this morning at work. I'm not sure if this would be helpful for you at this stage but I've been using a website called base2race to log my training over the past 18 months. Just google base2race and you'll find it. If you create an account, you can share it with others, your coach could comment on your training too. If you want to have a look at mine, you'll find it under alicebelts@yahoo.com.
Regards,
Mark.
Mark thanks for the site - wish I had known about it 10 months ago! I've been updating an excel spreadsheet for my coach and submitting my results that way. If I could get my Garmin working properly he could log into that site but that's another story. Good luck for Gullane at the weekend - go for it!
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