Training Archive: NixonIn the 7 days ending 2008-06-15:
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Sunday Jun 15 | ||
| Running 55:00 [3]11.5 km (4:47 / km) | |
| ahr:148 | ||
| Club La Santa:
A banter jog along a sandy track by the coast to looseten up, and loosten up I did. Put in a 10 min spurt to see if I had any speed in my legs. The answer was no, I did not have speed in my legs, and this is something I will address in the next few months before the XC season so I don't get dropped big time by fat people. Tha tan lines are coming along nicely. | ||
| Swimming 45:00 [3] | |
| Club La Santa:
Swimming in the olympic pool, did a time-trial over 400m to see how bad I would be for the mini-triathlong. 9 minutes dead, not to fast really. | ||
| Cycling 1:00:00 [3]15.0 mi (3:59 / mi) | |
| Club La Santa:
A recovery cruise on the bike up to Tinajo to do some shopping. Tom and Pete went out on the organised ride, buy my legs still felt a little sore. All the shops were shut, so I came home empty handed. | ||
| Football 1:30:00 [3] | |
| Club La Santa:
5-a-side football with Pete and some Swedes, inlcuding a 15 year old girl who was pretty much as good as we were. They asked if Scotland has it's own football team. We said no. | ||
Saturday Jun 14 | ||
| Swimming 45:00 [3] | |
| Club La Santa:
Swimming down the olympic pool, about 1500m I guess. Spent a lot of time fannying about with my goggles. I think I lost a lot of weight off my face yesterday. Legs feeling a bit too sore to go cycling today. | ||
| Jogging 38:00 [3]7 km (5:26 / km) | |
| ahr:142 | ||
| Club La Santa:
Legs feeling pretty shitty. Good to get them moving though. I think. | ||
Friday Jun 13 | ||
| Cycling 6:20:00 [3]112.0 mi (3:22 / mi) | |
| Club La Santa:
The Lanzarote is the toughest and one of the biggest Iron-Man competitions in the world. It would have been pretty rude to come here and not go for an epic ride. We did it backwards, which ended up taking the climbs in bigger chunks and taking the headwind in longer straights, but it did mean we did finished with a head wind. Well, that's what we thought anyway. We stopped about 2 hours in for lunch, then headed on for the reast of the course. It was pretty damn sunny and pretty damn hot. Some particuarly awesome team time trialling broke up the hard work on the 90 minutes on a dual carriageway into a headwind. We then started hitting the big climbs, and I started feeling a bit lame. After some coke I felt a bit better and we tackled the switchbacks. Awesome, proper alpine style cycling. It was then mostly down hill back to Club La Banta. I died, so Tom and Pete took big pulls at the front in the headwind, good work lads. A quick dip in the leisure pool afterwards, followed my epic cramp. Max speed: 49.8 mph | ||
Thursday Jun 12 | ||
| Cycling 2:06:00 [3]35.0 mi (3:35 / mi) | |
| Club La Santa:
Flew out uber-early, landing in Lanzarote in glorious sunshine. Met the Club La Santa rep and went out to the bus. There were still a few people to arrive so we waited the only way Brits know, tops off sunbathing: Sun's out, guns out. We then drove across the island in a bus which leaked airconditioning juice everywhere. We got to the sports fortress, got all out shit together, and then headed out for the first session of the week. I was on map duties. We just went for a quick spin today. Past the Firemountains and back home. It was pretty hot and sunny. Saw lots of camels and lots of lava. The roads where smoother than polished marble (not actually true, that would be a bit sketchy to ride on, but they were amazing). Top speed: 48.0 mph Dinner = pasta and ragu sauce | ||
Wednesday Jun 11 | ||
| Running 38:00 [3]9 km (4:13 / km) | |
| ahr:168 | ||
| Flew down to Tom's house in Leicestershire, went for a wee run on country lanes and footpaths. Nothing to report. | ||
Tuesday Jun 10 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Had lots of amazing plans, but was feeling too lazy. Interesting WOC selections it must be said, some very lucky people to be in the team and some very unlucky people not to be in the team. Not to worry though, the next WOC worth winning is in 2010. | ||
| Swimming 45:00 [3] | |
| Went to the Commy with DC. Got in a good amount of lengths in preparation for next week's triathlon. The slow lane was uber-slow, the medium lane was just plane slow, and the fast lane was olympic fast. A bunch of pesky kids were playing with a massive beach ball in the open water. Pesky kids. Met Dr Roger Scrutton, legend. | ||