Sunday Feb 11 |
 | cycling 3:00:00 [3] | |
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| Long ride with Marcie and Mike. For some reason I chose a rather hilly route and, unlike most rides from Oxford, it was up and down more or less the whole time. I wasn't feeling too fresh to start with, and Marcie set a bit of a mean pace so it was a good work out. I'm sure if I did that every Sunday I would be quite a bit fitter. |
Saturday Feb 10 |
| strength 1:03:00 [3] | |
| weight:62kg |
| Felt good. Enjoyed it. |
| cycling 1:20:00 [3] | |
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| "KPMG ride" which I thought was going to be with some slow coaches from KPMG on the way to a pub lunch and back again. Turns out all the KPMG people wimped out and decided to meet us at the pub instead, so it was me on my town bike and 15 people on racers. I really struggled and when they went past the pub after about 50 minutes I pulled off and drank tea with the KPMG people there before the others arrived back about 50 minutes later! |
Friday Feb 9 |
| Turbo Trainer 45:00 [4] | |
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| We had a fair bit of snow yesterday morning, which turned to slush in the afternoon and then froze overnight. So since I was not feeling particularly suicidal today I thought I would hit the gym for a turbo session.
First turbo session for possibly 5 years? The plan was 1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1 minute efforts with 1 minutes rest between. The reality was 1,2,2,1.5 minutes with 1 minutes rest, 2 minutes rest and then 4 by 1 minute efforts. Am so out of shape. Arghhh!! On the positive side, there's definitely some room for improvement ...
I hope the roads are OK by Sunday. |
Thursday Feb 8 |
| strength 1:04:00 [3] | |
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| First full session for ages. Felt OK, but have a bit of a headache. There weren't many people in, probably due to the fact that there was 10 cm of snow on the roads, which is very unusual for Oxford. It was quite fun riding to the gym and back - these soft Poms - even the men in their snow clearing machines must have been too scared to come out. |
Wednesday Feb 7 |
| Note | |
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| As opposed to just before Christmas, I've been feeling really keen lately to do some riding and weight training. It's all good, except that I've been sick and it's bloody cold outside. When I think how much I want to ride, I imagine that it's warm and sunny and I am riding for hours through the Adelaide hills... So I am sad that I'm not in Aus, but hopefully will get some miles in soon. |
| cycling 1:03:00 [3] | |
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| Pretty solid ride. My legs felt pretty tired but they didn't complain any more when I tried to ride hard. Probably the first decent training ride I've done for a while, even if it was only an hour! |
Tuesday Feb 6 |
| strength 59:00 [3] | |
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| Felt good to get back in the gym. I took it a little easy, and my pain threshold seemed to be lower than usual (?) Hopefully will be back up to full steam by Thursday. |
Monday Feb 5 |
| Note | |
| (sick) |
| Was definietly suffering after the ride yesterday (which in retrospect I probably should have canned). I woke up really, really wanting to go pump some iron (!), got dressed, then thought for about 15 minutes half way out the door if I was doing the right thing. I ended up going back to bed and will have to wait until tomorrow. Am feeling OK, but my body is definitely still fighting. |