Friday May 23 |
 | Cycling 13:59 [2] | |
| ahr:118 max:150 |
| Cycle into work - hurting a lot less than I expected after last night! |
| Cycling 24:53 [2] | |
| ahr:107 max:137 |
| Cycling home. My legs didn't like me much. |
| Recovery 38:03 [2]4.35 mi (8:44 / mi) | |
| ahr:139 max:164 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Gossip run with Kir - fantastic to run with someone, so much easier, and good to catch up on the gossip - feels like it's been ages. The sun was shining too, and my watch strap mark is getting silly by the day. |
Thursday May 22 |
| Cycling 13:20 [2] | |
| ahr:110 max:138 |
| Cycle into work. |
| Long run 1:59:45 [4]14.64 mi (8:10 / mi) | |
| ahr:165 max:181 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Long run, route at http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/united-kingdom/edinbur...
Felt rubbish for the first two miles, when I hit the seas started to enjoy myself watching the parachute surfer guys. All good until the hill up to Costorphine where everypart of my legs started to hurt. Fine again on the flat and downhill, then the steps on the loop back through Costorphine pretty much killed me. By the time I got back every fibre in my muscle was screaming at me, but having returned from what I think was probably my longest run ever at any kind of pace, it felt kind of good too. |
| Cycling 18:01 [2] | |
| ahr:137 max:160 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| No rest for the weekend though, had a quick shower at work (at 7.30pm, how sad), then jumped on the bike and pegged it to Fountainbridge to see Indiana Jones! Luckily I have an ace boyfriend who meets me there with large portions of tasty pasty from the Italian takeaway behind his house. Legend. Indiana Jones is a lot of fun, Cate Blanchett is excellent as a very silly Russian, though it's a shame that to suspend belief these days you have to involve extra terrestrials. Sooo much fun though. |
Wednesday May 21 |
| Strength 1:25:47 [4] | |
| ahr:109 max:158 rhr:41 |
| HR back down to normal and feeling fine, so went for the planned heavy gym session with plenty of rest and gossip in between.
Back squat 60kg 4 x 5
Lunge with OH press 22.5kg 4 x 8
Bent over row 42.5kg 4 x 5
BB Roll outs 3 x 10
One handed landmines throw and catch 15kg 3 x 10 (yeouch, ace fun!) |
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| C • I think I should start doin... 3 |
| Cycling 16:05 [2] | |
| ahr:123 max:152 |
| Really irritating cycle in to work, even at 11.15 Edinburgh was virtually gridlocked today. Minging. |
| Note | |
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| When are we going to get elite races sorted in this country? Elite starts at the Scottish champs are spread over 2.5 hours and with no seeding whatsoever, with myself and the top Scottish Junior into the forest a whole two hours before the super vets start. What a joke. What's the point in having an elite course if you don't do it properly? Just have a long and leave it at that.
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| Recovery 1:00:10 [2]6.0 mi (10:01 / mi) | |
| ahr:140 max:150 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Did a proper recovery run today instead of a marathon style training one, after feeling a bit blah for the past few days and having to squeeze in my long run tomorrow. So did a nice flat/downhill loop from work and kept the heart rate around 70%. Felt nice, but my left knee is a bit twingey. |
| Cycling 21:57 [2] | |
| ahr:130 max:163 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Rushed cycle home to get changed and zoom out to see Caribou. |
Tuesday May 20 |
| Note | |
| rhr:54 slept:10.0 (sick) (rest day) |
| HR up this morning despite huge amounts of sleep and though I don't feel particularly rubbish (slightly scratchy throat and heavy head seems to be the worst of the symptoms), figured a rest was in order - I have absolutely no need to screw my body over right now! |
Monday May 19 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| Feeling a little ropey at Rob's, heavy head and tired despite lots of sleep, so decided to rest today. Was feeling worse by the time we got back to Edinburgh late on. |
Sunday May 18 |
| Long run 1:38:33 [4]12.0 mi (8:12 / mi) | |
| ahr:172 max:183 shoes: Saucony Cohesion |
| Rob dropped me off at Ogden in the beautiful sunshine and I ran a winding way back to Harden. Although this is net downhill there were plenty of big hills and rough paths and doing this run in the right kind of time was a real challenge: aiming for miles in 8.26 again. The first two miles up to the turbines was really tough! Good session. |