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race Athens 24 hour on March the 28th
Monday Cycled to and from work - 44k
Tuesday Cycled to work ran home - 22k, 21k
Wednesday Cycled to and from work- 44k
Thursday Ran to work Cycled home 21k, 22k
Friday Cycled to work, swam on the way and
cycled home 28k,2k,22k
Run: 42k
Bike: 182k
Swim: 2k
I now have 11 weeks
to go until the 24 hour race in Athens.
My primary training is running with swimming as cross training and
cycling to work on the days I don't run.
I managed all my planned sessions this week except Wednesday morning
when I decide to miss my swim. I had a
cold over the new year and my RHR was 42 when I woke up. It had dropped back down to 38 by Friday.
This is still high for me and it did make the swim hard work. During the first 10 lengths I nearly stopped
as I was out of breath. I slowed down a little and felt better so was able to
make my planned 2k in the end. I have a
fairly light weekend planned, so am hoping the rest/recovery will get my RHR
down to normal and training can pick up a little.
Both the runs were
also hard work. On Tuesday I started out
feeling good only to fatigue pretty quickly and Thursday had more walking in
the run than I would of liked. I was about
10 minutes over my easy pace for the 21k.
I think the Xmas break and the cold took a little of my endurance
away. Still, there's no need to panic as
this will pick up over the coming month.
I've also started a
lunch time running session at work for some people new to running. Next Tuesday I am going to start them on a
C25k plan. I am looking forward to this
and really hope I can get some of them enjoy running and want to get them all
to a parkrun 5k at the end of 9 or 10 weeks. (I haven't told them this as I
don't want to scare them off and I think 5k will seem like a step too far on
day 1) I am also planning a run with
some other colleagues who already run a little.
So a bit faster, but hopefully slow enough to be a recovery run though,
as I plan to run to and from work a more as the weeks go by.
