tale of the week
Triathlon Training Blog, Monday, July 20th, 2015tuesday was a rest day after yesterdays turbo let down. Rest days are great if u dont have to go to work. I remember reading in Michael hutchinsons book faster what his coach told him about rest days
not an option,Started the new 5 storey re wire with Phil in tenby
Wednesday
Didnt fancy the velo 10mtt . not keen on the course (bangeston) and political fall out cant be arsed. Shame , theres some good racing to had there with the velo boys and have enjoyed it.
Getting faster with the Kenyans
Out for a run with Dean Bot, Escobar and fabulous.The Dean bot can move. Running behind Fabulous he does run like a bit of a girl. Bit penelope Pitstop esque
pitstop
and he wonders why his back plays him up
So we head out up the lamphey road. The Dean Bot can run and pretty soon we are all strung out in the dean bots wake. Pitstop is holding well and as i never use a computer for running i dont know how fast we are going but i do know its stretching a bit. This isnt a casual run. My eyes are boring into the back of Dean Bots head thinking ‘i reckon he can keep this fucking pace up all day!!’Up the hill onto the ridgeway Pitstop must be having one and as we head down the hill i join him. Let the Dean Bot go. Shane passes me and i carry on. I chase shane down and fancy i am pulling the Bot back along the upper lamphey road back to the shop. He finishes the 7 mile run 6 mins 47 secs average pace per mile. OOOFF. Pitstop comes in later having gone MIA but finishes with an average 7 min 39 secs per mile.
Thursday
Early morning tri swim in the pool was relegated the the middle lane again. WTF. Good swimmers in the fast lane and i can hold them but not for long.The tri Swim was 3k then did 600 metres drills after. Was pretty tired and decided not to do the tt and had the night off
Friday Into it
early bird turbo
the floor of the centre beckoned and i found it.
2 mins on 2 mins off times 3 6mins rest repeat . 3 sets all told. brutal. Brazier had some sort of physical episode .Its started off with a small lonely whisper that you werent quite sure where it came from. It very quickly increased in volume to a grunt. Soon it became an alarming cacophony of noise that almost sounded , well u can imagine what it sounded like. It climaxed with a bull like bellow which sounded very much like the cartoon from bullseye used to make and then a slump and nothing. It wasnt the sort of noise you can block out no matter how hard you tried. To the point where u just wanted to have brazier put down. He crawled out the room we just looked on . felt like a pathetic form of relief mixed with embarrassment. He hoofed his ,crunchy nut cornflakes back up apparently. the trouble is they didnt taste too good on the way back up. Walked back into the room not a bother on him wondering why the room was stunned, shocked in silence . Nice way to be.
The afternoon and i did, what shall now be referred to as ‘ a brazier’
treadmill. 2 schools of thought here. getting used to being really fucking sizzling hot whilst running and targeted intervals. So 15 min warm up 2 mins for as fast as u can hold 2 mins for. started off at 18kmph then upto 18.5 and for the last 2 19/19.5. The brazier moments came in the last 3. no slowing the mill down just emergency stop.doing nothing on the minute off
‘just fucking sit there’
finished the 10k at tempo in 45.30 then onto the pool. Phil greenwood was there, now referred to as the ‘harvester.’ hoovering any bits of kit that were unattended for more than 2 to 3 seconds. ‘Im aving that’ in a scouse accent.Fab raised an eyebrow when harvester went into his kit and started hoovering his post training food but thought better of it. u either stop him before he starts but dont interrupt the harvester mid harvest. not a wise move.
45 mins and had a good swim well better than yesterday was holding fab , who was now starving, for stretches of the session and was quite pleased. 2 k down.
Now i never go out . ever. socially thats the way everyone else prefers it. So i am due to go out. unattended and without any adult supervision at all.Last minute i go out in tenby instead of saundersfoot. I head down the hope ,its busy and bump into captain thomas who recommends
recommended. The owner Dan is really cool. fast service great pizza. So , as some of you are aware Kath and i have locked antlers this week. Who should walk in after 20 mins. I am not kidding. I’m not saying it was uncomfortable cos we both would have to care for that but it was amusing. What are the chances. Added to that i bumped into 2 of the GB athletes i met in Sweden coming up the paragon.
then headed across to the sip longue
Kath( a differnet one,apparently there are more than two) the owner again is lovely and i went a bit beserk to be honest still reeling from the shock of our meeting with the other kath, try to keep up, in top joes and ordered a non alcoholic mojito . Crazy . Anyway i’m sure its all ‘handbags ‘ and will blow over. when i’ve purchased some ‘dignity’ from getmesomedignityyamuppet.co.uk.
into the weekend we go. out with team nbcc in the morning then a wedding then a race sunday
