Training Log Archive: Charli

Spinning class at the tennis centre

Was planning on doin 4miles on the treadmill after spinning. When running to the car from the bike shop I felt my hamstring twinge n felt it straight away on treadmill so after 5mins called it a day n did lots of stretching

Been bicycle shopping n did nothing this morning so will do the run tomorrow as ran out of time today.

From home round The Park and back.

Int gym. No pain when cycling n watched the apprentice

Was short of time so just did this on the treadmill stuck it at 10km/hr pace n just did it.

Then rushed to the uni for a talk on triathlons aimed at novices.

50m w/u

200m b/s no stops

50m f/c legs only , 50m left arm float, 50m right arm float, 50m f/c

100m w/d

Pool v.busy

To let legs the recover. Also my ribs feel bruised?

Right going to write down this weeks training so it shows how much/little I do:

Mon - REST
Tues - 300m swim am (this wont happen am this week), 3miles run pm
Weds - 10miles cycle
Thurs - 500m swim am, 3miles pm
Fri - 8 miles cycle
Sat - 4miles run am
Sun - 10miles cycle am.

Run with Gaz round the village doing loops to make a bit longer but sacked it off half way round as my legs were too sore from yesterday and gaz didn't complain either. Started in rain and had to stop half way round to take kit off as the sun got really warm. It's really difficult running in April!

Things to take away from today:
- Need to keep myself hydrated
- Need to have a proper breakfast (and learn that Gareth Little will always eat all the bread in the house and not think to go buy another loaf therefore buy one myself) - most of today I was running off two mouthfuls of cereal and a banana.
- Need to warm up properly and stretch and do drills
- Do not volunteer for everything
- Do not do lots of sprinting before a middle distance race and then expect to run a good time
- Stop doing LJ & TJ cause I am awful and surely these young girls can do further.
- Learn how to hurdle.
- Grow some balls and try the steeplechase.

Was at the track from 11.15 to 5 and I basically didn't stop all day.

Running round the stadium finding members of the team and trying to coerce them into running the events we had gaps in i.e. hurdles and steeplechase and pole vault.

lap warm up with the bro while looking for emily

few strides before long jump

3 long jumps - NJ, something really short to get a jump in and then 3.78 to get me third A string

a lap warm up with Charlotte before a few strides and some high knees as didn't have time for more.

lap warm up before 400m

lap warm down with gaz after his 5k.

running backwards and forwards before my 1500m plus a few strides.

lap warm down with the bro at the end of the day.

100m

lots of excessive faffing by the marksman and cambridge.

15.1s second A string. Poor turnout

400m

Stood on the start line and the heavens opened. Massive headwind on the back straight. Worked hard on the second bend.

Time 72.3 secs - 3rd A string. Well happy with the time not run it that quick in a little while and it was appalling weather :-)

C • Awesome time 2

Felt so stiff n sore and grumpy that I knew I was going to run rubbish having already sprinted twice, long jumped and triple jumped and was kicking myself for not warming up all day.

400m - 90s
800m 3:11
1100m - 4:31

Knew at this point sub 6 was out of the equation and finished in a very disappointing 6:20.5.

Weather was shit again but nowhere near as bad as the 4. W.Suffolk n Cambs b strings passed me after the first 300m and I was left running the rest of my own.

3rd B string.

4x1

Charlotte, Me, Emily, Gaye

Good changeover between me n Charlotte and awful between me and Emily therefore a long way down on Cambridge to come second.

4x400

Marie, Me, Poppy, Nicky.

Poppy n Nicky had just marvellously done the steeple. And cambridge had very very fast girls in their team so no suprise to come second.

We had a combined race with the men very odd. Poor poppy nearly got trampled by the two men fighting for the line.

Pool sehr busy. So lots of waiting.

On turbo trainer. Still really uncomfortable.

Rest day fro moved to today as full of cold n had to sort a team out for sat.

Pre work swim, may actually have been asleep.

3-1 to dawn.

Run through the park. Felt hilly. Time very ish - kitchen clock.

4-1 to Gaz (yes that's right I won one!) Followed by me trying to return fast serves n then Gaz won a final game.

Distance is ish as when I first got in I only had the deep half on the pool to swim in so did lap of the deep end warm up plus two laps where i did the long lengths breast stroke and the short lengths front crawl/doggy paddle/try and stay afloat. Then once they removed the middle barrier I did 3 length breast stroke, 1 length front crawl/doggy paddle x 4.

OK so I had a real big think today about how I am getting on (or not as the case is) with my cycling.

I find cycling as a whole on a road bike massively uncomfortable. Comfort on a bicycle for a woman is hard to describe and in fact when I actually got to the point of literally don't know what to do today I found this blog on the internet http://lovelybike.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/on-female... ( I really advise the guys not to read this). Cause it's a bit of a awkward subject to discuss really. Whenever I say cycling is so uncomfortable people assume I mean the seat of my bum and that I just need to 'break it in'. That is not my problem and it was comforting to see in the link above that I'm not alone.

The main cause of my pain is the fact all my weight is on the very front of my saddle this is because of the fact it's a road bike and the saddle points downwards. It seemed that my saddle didn't adjust in terms of rotation i.e. up or down. After a trip to Evans and a look at their saddle posts. Me and Gaz returned home to closer inspect my saddle post and found that once we took it to pieces you could actually adjust the angle of the saddle so we have had a play with that. Having now adjusted the saddle it is a little less painful and but there is still a lot of pressure on the front of the saddle.

For the next month I am going to try it and see if I am OK with it. I am also going to bring my old school raleigh MB back from norfolk next weekend. I have found that I don't get any of this discomfort or pain on the gym bike or on the hire bike I had in italy that I rode for over 6hours in denim shorts whereas gaz had massive discomfort. I realise a lot of it is that I need to man up but I hate cycling and so I'm just not going to get on the bike if it is going to continue to be this bad. So if after this month is over I still don't like my road bike I am going to change it for a hybrid as an upright bike may be the way forward for me as I think I'll have more confidence to go out on it around Nottingham as well - don't feel very safe or confident on my road bike. It is a shame as it such a lovely and beautiful bike but I just don't use it as all it brings me is uncomfortable exercise and that really isn't helping my tri training aims.

C • Its a shame you aren't gett... 4

Home to Victoria embankment n along Trent for a bit before gaz's shins became too bad n then ran back instead of continuing planned canal loop.

With bridge to wollaton park where we separated as I was massively slow. Down from the hall towards the lake out to the A52 along a bit and then cut into the campus cut through the halls, down through the engineering building to gaz's building along and then under the a52 across the hospital carpark and home.

Been in London since thurs eve with old housemayes so not done owt.

10mins on rower before zumba.

30mins in weight machines n stretching

Was really quite pish

Thought this would be best

So fricking uncomfortable n so after 5k with my tolerance massively lower today due to tiredness rode back to the car. My seat tilts forwards n there's no adjustment so think a new seat is in order.