Time to TRAIN!

August 10

It must be almost race day as I seem to have a resting heart rate of ~90bpm, a stuffy feeling head and a slightly raised temperature! That makes 4 out of 5 races where I seem to feel like crap during taper!
 

August 9

Bike
  • 19m 54s
  • 5.38 miles
  • 16.22 Mi/hr

Temp:10
Wind:11mph
Climb:200ft
Cad:87

Swim
  • 26m
  • 1200.00 meters
  • -----

Bike

Didn't seem to have any energy this morning for some reason, so just went out for a short 20min ride. Decided to try and make it a good hilly route to compensate for the short distance.

Swim

wu
200m easy
main
200m catchup drill
100m - 1:59
200m closed fist drill
100m - 1:56
3x66m (↑ fast, ↓ slow - 30.8, 30.25, 29.1)
cd
200m easy

First time under 30 secs for a fast 33m and it was almost under 29!

  • Calories out: 2683 From lifestyle:2219, From activities:464
  • Health data: Hours slept: 7

August 8

Run
  • 40m
  • 4.12 miles
  • 09m 42s /Mi

Temp:17c
Wind:24mph (39mph gusts)
Climb:157ft

Run

Nice slow easy run to start taper week!

  • Calories out: 2640 From lifestyle:2190, From activities:450
  • Health data: Hours slept: 9

August 5

Run
  • 1h 05m
  • 7.29 miles
  • 08m 55s /Mi

Temp:14c
Wind:6mph
Climb:128ft

Run

Last long run before the race!

  • Calories out: 2976 From lifestyle:2202, From activities:774
  • Health data: Hours slept: 7

August 4

Swim
  • 54m 30s
  • 2400.00 meters
  • -----

2:13
2:18

Bike

Woke up to what sounded like a torrential downpour! Yup, British summer time is truely here :(. The unfortunate side effect of all the rain was the intense humdity it brought which meant I couldn't use my rollers either as my little fan (which isn't really sufficiant for normal use) had no chance of cooling me down. Shame as that was going to be my last long ride before next week's tapering.

Swim

wu
6x33m easy
2x100m easy
main
2x800m (17:52 (2:13/100m), 18:27 (2:18/100m))
cd
6x33m some easy some fast
2x100m easy

Odd swim. At the beginning it was a bit on the busy side and I was pretty much able to practice the chaos at the start of an OWS so much so that I was kicked twice (by 2 different people doing breaststroke, once in the shoulder, once in the ribs!) and smacked in the head by an on coming backstroker who had drifted off course. By the end of the second 800m it was almost empty and whilst resting a guy asked if I was about to go. After telling him I was not going anywhere for a bit he commented that I was so fast ("like a torpedo!") that I'd catch up to him. Looking at my times, I was left wondering what he'd make of actual fast swimmers!

Still, it was nice to be thought of as fast for once even if I don't agree :)

  • Calories out: 2663 From lifestyle:2211, From activities:452
  • Health data: Hours slept: 6.5

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