Saturday Session

Usual Saturday session yesterday morning, but I have a race today so took it a bit easier. Happy with the way it went and we'll see how I go in the 3000m this afternoon.

1200's

Felt exhausted all day and showed up to running club completely underestimating the session. 1 x 1200m + 1200m tabata by 3. 2 minutes passive between the 1200m and the tabata and 3 minutes passive after the tabata. So 6 reps all up and for those who have forgotten, tabata is 10s easy, 20s hard. Really humid and steady light rain all afternoon an evening which helped to be honest. Not a breath of wind which was a miracle. Started solid in 3:57. . The following tabata felt good and not too difficult but the next rep was tough in 3:49. Managed to keep with Tom which was the main goal. The next tabata took it out of me and I wasn't looking forward to the final 1200m. Managed the time of 3:48. The last tabata was tough but from the last 200m we went straight to the line and I managed to hold on which was fantastic. 10.8km all up, exhausted now.

Knackered

This morning got up early and met up with Chris to do 9km easy in just under 45 mins. Then jumped in the pool for a km of swimming. Went faster than normal this time and arms definitely started to feel it. Really tired now.

So many reps

Yesterday went to running club for a bit of a lactic and distance session. 6 x 500m, 6 x 250m and 6 x 200m we got done and it was tough. Times for the 500m's were 1:36, 1:32, 1:31, 1:29, 1:26, 1:25. Started off a bit slower because we wanted to complete the entire session and 18 reps is a lot of work. Chris killed the last 500 in 1:19, haftu and I held back so we didn't blow up. Then the 250's. 42s, 39s, 37s, 37s, 37s, 34s off 90s passive recovery. Felt pretty good during these, and held onto Chris on the last one which was I was stoked with. The 200's were tough though, 32s, 31s, 29s, 30s, 29s, 29s. Really struggled on the last 2 and was surprised as my times weren't bad. Haftu came past me on the last one, I had nothing left. Great session 8.5km all together.

Getting there

Went for a swim this morning and pumped out 50 lengths of the 25m pool. Pushed it on some of the lengths as well so I'm surprised that I'm not sore at the moment. Then had an exam before meeting up with Chris and doing 50 minutes of easy running and I felt great. Plodding along we would've been doing around 4:45's or 4:50's. Cycled to swim this morning and cycled to meet Chris so would've done 8 or 9km km on the bike as well. Bit of a triathlon day today.

Slowly but surely

Went for a run with some of the guys from school. I ran to the session and back as well, but the session was 3 sets of 3 x 6 50m sprints and one last rep on the end. So each rep is 300m long so the in all it was 3km of hard work. 8.6km all up and felt bad afterwards. I have a sore throat now so I probably did too much exercise before I got over my cold so I'll take tomorrow off to hopefully get better.

Double trouble

Got out for a swim this morning. Used the indoor 25m pool as the 50m outside pool doubled my chances of drowning. Dad seemed to think I wouldn't manage 25 lengths of the 25m pool but I didn't know what to expect. Started well, but then began to struggle as finding a rhythm is fairly important to swim well. Soon enough got into a rhythm of breathing every two strokes and went past the 25 length challenge in about 25 minutes which is really slow thinking about it. Anyway lost count of the lengths after that but must've hit 40 or 45 as I picked it up a bit and was swimming for another 20 mins after that. I struggled with the turn around though, it wasn't particularly continuous, but something to work on for next time. Then got out for a run as well this afternoon. Just 5km as I'm still feeling a bit sick in 22:49.