09-03-2010, 08:27 PM
Hey TheEd,
Hope you are well, have you manged to get out anymore over last few days?
5 hour race on Sunday was challenging but manageable. Glorious day, no more than 4-5C with wall to wall sunshine all day from start to finish. Back held up fine, absolutely no probs. Went ahead on own to checkpoints to get a work out, had tons of anaerbic power in legs for the hills.
Went round in a group, four ladies, four men. Ladies mixed ability. MTB lasted 3.5 hours, clocked up 18 miles, 2/3 was offroad and technical. Short transition and onto run which was 2/3 walking. 15 year old was struggling with running, got about 6 miles in.
Came about halfway down table of over 250 competitors. Excellent experience, need to improve map reading for going off next time on own or with a partner.
Slept like a baby Sun night. Recover y/day OK, clean up bike and 2 hours DIY.
Bike to work today, resisted short run at lunch until tomorrow, easy 4miler and core session in gym. Will take both easy and see how feel.
Just looked at calendar, noticed have less than 8 weeks to first scheduled 10km race (Sun 3rd May, 7 weeks this Sun). Planning to enter shortly.
How do you feel I should start proceeding? I've forgotten the old format, I remember the 19 cycle (will look back over notes I printed off, it seems like a long time ago, wasn't there a pre-19 day cycle to get ready for the race build up - Is there anything you think I should be using as a yard stick for starting to consider a more focussed training sched?
Hope to hear from you soon,
D
Hope you are well, have you manged to get out anymore over last few days?
5 hour race on Sunday was challenging but manageable. Glorious day, no more than 4-5C with wall to wall sunshine all day from start to finish. Back held up fine, absolutely no probs. Went ahead on own to checkpoints to get a work out, had tons of anaerbic power in legs for the hills.
Went round in a group, four ladies, four men. Ladies mixed ability. MTB lasted 3.5 hours, clocked up 18 miles, 2/3 was offroad and technical. Short transition and onto run which was 2/3 walking. 15 year old was struggling with running, got about 6 miles in.
Came about halfway down table of over 250 competitors. Excellent experience, need to improve map reading for going off next time on own or with a partner.
Slept like a baby Sun night. Recover y/day OK, clean up bike and 2 hours DIY.
Bike to work today, resisted short run at lunch until tomorrow, easy 4miler and core session in gym. Will take both easy and see how feel.
Just looked at calendar, noticed have less than 8 weeks to first scheduled 10km race (Sun 3rd May, 7 weeks this Sun). Planning to enter shortly.
How do you feel I should start proceeding? I've forgotten the old format, I remember the 19 cycle (will look back over notes I printed off, it seems like a long time ago, wasn't there a pre-19 day cycle to get ready for the race build up - Is there anything you think I should be using as a yard stick for starting to consider a more focussed training sched?
Hope to hear from you soon,
D