Training Log Archive: AC

Still searching for the ideal hill for hill intervals. Have probably fund it now afte rthis run. Down near Radio France and across the road from the Turkish Embassy is a nice 300m hill with only one minor road crossing. Straight run and solid uphill. Warmed up with a jog through Trocadero and past the tourists, then did 4 intervals, trying to maintain form and get faster over the intervals. Not sure about maintaining form, but did succeed in getting faster - 1.21, 24, 19, 19.

Finished up back at work with 10 minutes on the rowing machine. First go at this apparatus and it was good fun and quite tiring. May have to make this a regular thing (although goodness knows how I will find the time)!

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Another very cold day, but overcast and light flurries of "almost snow". Great for running if not for the high pollution alert that is currently in place for Paris. Decided to risk it anyway and didn't really taste the pollution or feel adversely affected during the run (or afterwards). Continued teh resumption of intervals and did 5 x 3 mins H with 1 min E, followed by 3 x 1 min H with 1 min E. Good pace for the most part (4.03, 14, 12, 8, 20 per km for the 3 min intervals - last one was up hill :-) - and faster at 3.58, 50, 43 for the 1 min intervals). Jog back to work. Good session - hard work but felt like progress.

Another very cold but clear morning. Heaps of frost around and some dampness on the road made me very cautious about black ice and so took the downhills and corners very conservatively. Having broken three bones in my hands in bike accidents over the past 18 months, I am not keen to push the boundaries at all! This was my first ride for quite a while and it showed. Very slow and sluggish and no power in the legs. Given I have signed up for a three day MTB race in Switzerland with prosseri and prosserh at the end of June, I have some work to do to get into shape! Stayed upright and no major scares, so mission accomplished.

Dropped Freya off at her tennis lesson and headed off for a short run. Very very cold with lots of frost and ice around (both lakes in the Bois are well and truly iced over) and consequently really struggled to get going, despite being very rugged up. But gradually got into it and was moving reasonably well by the end of the run, finishing up with a nice quick km. Glad to jump into a nice hot shower at the end ...

Having taken yesterday off in order to give my aching knees an extra day of rest, I was looking forward to getting out for a run. Crisp and cold (around 2 degrees) and crystal clear weather - perfect for a run. Have been meaning to get back into some hill training again in anticipation of a number of O events coming up in February and March. So headed down towards teh Seine where there is quite a steep little hill that I thought might be useful for hill repeats. It is about 250m in length and starts out relatively gentle and then turns a corner at around 40 seconds and ramps up quite steeply. I managed four of these and decided that was enough on the first go at these for a while. Jogged home. Good session.