After the painful run on Monday I decided to take a couple of days off running. I mixed biking to work (30 miles) with swim sessions at lunch times. The biking was great returning from work as I had a following wind; an easy spin back home on the single speed is about 1 hour 30 mins. The ride back to work in the morning normally has a headwind 8-( Add to that legs that are still half asleep and the single speed bike, the ride to work is normally substantially slower! As far as swimming goes, I am managing to swim longer distances but I am not moving through the water very quickly! Did a nice session of 'halving' with 100m sculling drills inbetween - that is:
800m, 100m drill, 2 x 400m, 100m drill, 4 x 200m, 100m drill, finish with 8 x 25m sprint and warm down.
As part of the London Marathon taper I dropped the early morning run yesterday but kept the swim session at lunch time. Therefore, I actually turned up at the Hunts AC track session in the evening with fresh legs! I ran to the track as a warm up, then we ended up doing 2 sets of 7 x 200m with 100m jog recoveries (3 min between sets). Conditions were good too, for a change! 200m efforts are a bit speedy for my legs but it was good fun and certainly got the leg speed going. Importantly, I don't feel drained today! I have an easy bike today and a long easy bike with Mick 'Turbo man' Pullin tomorrow; I will run off the bike but can't see Mick doing that - he has no passion for running!
Next week my long run is reduced to 10 miles so I should be even fresher!
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Nice start to your Blogging career. I can now keep an eye on your training and publicly nag you about resting and avoiding overtraining - something you need on a continuous basis it would seem.
Best of luck with FLM and The Worlds - not that you'll need it, you have prepared well OB1!
Nice ride today Mr S - that singlespeed work will really pay off later in the season.
Thanks T Man! The Blog is fun but I can't believe you would nag me for over training - moi?! The ride was hard for me! The legs were tired and the single speed in that wind was tough going. Still, hope the work pays off. You sure looked strong and you will go well this year....... if you start running!
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