Come get me off this merry go round....
Tis true. All this week I have been working off fumes or something.
I guess last weekend was a bit busy. As a consequence I rested Monday and then Tuesday too. I still went to work obv but I felt really flat. Wednesday I had a go at the session that said 5 miles with 3 x 0.5 at 10k pace. Pretty much nailed that and was really pleased. That left me 2 sessions for the week. 8 and a 10.
Thursday I swam as my legs were a bit shot. Friday I planned 10m steady, woke up, pissing rain decided to go for the 8. Started, slow, and basically couldn't find anything for the quick bits it just wasn't there. At 2 miles I got stomach cramps at 3.5 I binned it.
On advice I didn't try to catch it up, but I did do that session on Saturday and felt fine. I don't know why.
Or maybe I do, I was playing around with my diet last week and cutting carbs, I probably went a bit far :D
Anyway, today was a sprint tri. All of 1 mile from my house. I set myself a goal of 1.30 and achieved it by 15 seconds. Being more optimistic wasn't going to work due to the numerous traffic light stops on each lap. I can tell you it is very frustrating to work hard to go past someone on the bike and them have them pull up beside you at the lights, or worse, just jump them :-D
Anyway it was fun and my first tri of the year so all good. I've sent feedback too as I feel it is important to support local events. Get me!
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I started writing this blog 2 weeks ago and I have finally the energy to finish it.
Last weekend I went up to Nottingham on Saturday to meet up with lots of triathletes and do the 3k big swim. It was an early start but got there in good time and registered with @JWUltra who was doing the 5k as race prep for his 10k target race. I'll be honest I felt a bit of a fraud as everyone was registering to do IM and here was me registering to not even do the whole swim distance. But at least I was doing something. Met up with loads of pirates and was great to see FB and Petal who were also doing the 3k and then doing bike in/out marshalling the next day.
Anyway midday came and JW went off (ooh nearly forgot SA was doing it too, I had lovely hugs off the whole family when I saw them :-) I went off and had a nice chat with KK and generally faffed around while the 5k went on. I predicted a 1.35-1.40 swim for JW so started looking out from 1.30. I'm guessing he came by the group of us watching out at about 1.35.... I knew it was him coming because his stroke looks really 'lazy' and yet he is moving some.....can I just say how jealous I am of that :-D and he finished in 1.41 something which was a great result and his race plan had worked. (I understand this is due to @JPSSportsCoach ) I had to rush off then and change for mine. My target was 1.20, and not to have the stupid panic thing I always get.
Started well, no panic yahoo!!!! Swam steadily to the turn around, was aware the nearer I got the more choppy it was becoming. The bouy was blowing around like mad. I had visions of it bopping me on the head and knocking me out! So I gave it a v wide berth. ( confession here, I am scared of bouys, and the ropes that anchor them, seeing that rope going down into the depths makes me feel sick..... Odd maybe but there you go) so past the bouy and into loads of chop, got a fair few mouthfuls of water and a good slapping it felt like! However past a certain point it calms and you are heading home.
Only to get out, do a little run and then jump back in and do it again! I love that bit. You feel drunk, and yet you're an athlete!!! That's me :)))
I wasn't drunk. Just to clarify.
Anyway second lap pretty much like the first. The bouy didn't get me, I was more prepared for the chop and I finished in 1.18 something. Yay!!!!
Got changed said hello to a few more people. Was delighted with how delighted Petal was to chick FB, and was really pleased to be able to wish Sid all the best.
Then I was even more delighted to drink a few cans of Stella in great company before I headed home.
Sunday I followed the outlaws progress. I was well impressed with Emma's win and the same with Sid's finish. But there were lots of great performances, Hope and Holly did fab, Meldy and Mouse and well just too many to mention really.
I tried to run, but had too bad a stomach to complete, which pretty much brings me up to date cos I haven't felt really that well til today. Must've picked up a virus.
So with that and the tired problem which I am hoping will get sorted soon my training week has been pants.
Tomorrow is another day and as it happens a 10 mile leg of the @enduranclife real relay which is following the Olympic torch round Britain from Colchester to Tiptree.
If I don't get lost I'll tell you how it went next week :)))
Sunday 24 June 2012
Monday 18 June 2012
Tell me all,
and I'll try to piece it together, I've got a photofit mind, but I'm a first rate forgetter.....
ANYWAY, I've been busy!
I'm not even going to talk about work, my day to day job doesn't really involve many meetings. I have to go to a number of lab talks and such like but generally I work on my own so not many people to meet with :) Last week I had 4 MILLION. I know!!!!! A couple were career related so actually probably quite important, but still.
I lied, I am going to talk a bit about work, on Monday I had 3 work experience girls with me for a couple of hours. Basically we need to give them an overview of what we do and perhaps show them a bit of lab work. Sometimes it's quite difficult because they think they know everything (of course when I was 17 I was world expert on most matters) but this group surprised me by being so interested and impressed by EVERYTHING. Seriously, my Gilson pipette was the best thing they had ever seen. Maybe they were just taking the piss out of me but those few hours were quite pleasant and I wish them all well in their A levels. That's good that is, I have wanted to stab previous students :-D
Then on Tuesday night I had a 5 mile race in Romford. I'm not that keen on evening races because generally I haven't drunk enough in the day and then there's the worry of something going wrong at work or on transport so I don't get there but this wasn't too bad. I did have to beg some water off the water station before the start as I had forgotten to bring any but I think I started in quite good fettle. Finished in 40.42 my av pace was 8.12. Ok thats where I am. This was very flat mainly on roads.
Then Saturday I was due to do the Great East 1 mile swim, but it was put back to Sunday because of worries about high winds. Not ideal as I was quite busy already Sunday but was still going to be doable.
So the 16 miler that I was going to do on Sunday incorporating a 5.5m race was moved to Saturday. A bit of a lacklustre performance really (I have an idea that being out and drinking alcohol 3 consequ...... 3 nights on the trot before hand was a bad idea) but it got done.
And yeah my legs were done too. Soooooo tired, however I had work to do the next day.
Up at 5.30 Sunday to go and help out at Tri Sport Epping's Try a tri event. My job was swim timing and Mr H got the job of puller. He thought his luck was in but actually it was a really tough job pulling tired novice triathletes out of the pool when they are a dead weight :-D
Theres me ready to go :)
Anyway, I think we saw 137 people in and out of the swim and then we got in the car back to Dagenham to my running clubs race which is part of the same series as the one last Tuesday had been. This one is pretty much all off road and consisted of 3 laps round the 'Chase' a small nature reservy thing. Pleasingly I did this in a 8.13 average, on much more tired legs than on Tues night. I was happy with that.
Just before the race. Note the bed head!!!! I still wasn't properly awake :D Mind you Michael behind me looks like he is doesn't he!
So, that left the swim. Raced home jumped in shower, picked up my wetsuit and stuff and we drove to Ipswich. Well, Mr H drove, I tried to make conversation with him but ended up dribbling on my chest when I went to sleep. He did a good job as we got there just as registration for my wave had started. I did a quick change, got interviewed by someone from the telly and went to acclimatise.
Ooooh it felt cold. But that's because I haven't been in OW for aaaages. Anyway I swam about a bit and satisfied myself that I could still swim. We then had to get out and be herded into a pen where some aerobics instructor thought she'd give herself some entertainment trying to make people lumbering about in wetsuits do a warm up. I joined in because there wasn't anything else to do. Then the compare interviewed people from earlier which was erm.......a load of cock really, I just wanted to get in the water! Eventually, when we had had enough time to become de-acclimatised we were allowed to go in.
The first 400m were a bit of a nightmare. Head up doggy paddle as usual which is very energy consuming. I told myself I could do that all the way if I needed....I know I am strong enough. And as soon as I had accepted that, I could put my face in the water. It really really is head games.
The rest of it was quite pleasant. The only other problem was the end because you had to swim under this gantry thing for the chip in your hat, but compared to massive bouys and flags it was really small and I couldn't see it! A canoeist and some shouting got me there.
Out onto the carpet and you get a goody bag with t shirt and medal and water and bits and bobs, then a photographer....er......no you cant take a picture of me looking like the creature from the black lagoon, but thanks for asking.
I did 39.03. I am very happy with that :)))))
AND, I did my exercises when I got in.
Rest day today, I have sessions later in the week that I want to hit. Oh and a sprint tri on Sunday. I am thinking of pumping up the tyres on my bike on Saturday. That will be bike training sorted!!!
Bye!!!!!!!!!
ANYWAY, I've been busy!
I'm not even going to talk about work, my day to day job doesn't really involve many meetings. I have to go to a number of lab talks and such like but generally I work on my own so not many people to meet with :) Last week I had 4 MILLION. I know!!!!! A couple were career related so actually probably quite important, but still.
I lied, I am going to talk a bit about work, on Monday I had 3 work experience girls with me for a couple of hours. Basically we need to give them an overview of what we do and perhaps show them a bit of lab work. Sometimes it's quite difficult because they think they know everything (of course when I was 17 I was world expert on most matters) but this group surprised me by being so interested and impressed by EVERYTHING. Seriously, my Gilson pipette was the best thing they had ever seen. Maybe they were just taking the piss out of me but those few hours were quite pleasant and I wish them all well in their A levels. That's good that is, I have wanted to stab previous students :-D
Then on Tuesday night I had a 5 mile race in Romford. I'm not that keen on evening races because generally I haven't drunk enough in the day and then there's the worry of something going wrong at work or on transport so I don't get there but this wasn't too bad. I did have to beg some water off the water station before the start as I had forgotten to bring any but I think I started in quite good fettle. Finished in 40.42 my av pace was 8.12. Ok thats where I am. This was very flat mainly on roads.
Then Saturday I was due to do the Great East 1 mile swim, but it was put back to Sunday because of worries about high winds. Not ideal as I was quite busy already Sunday but was still going to be doable.
So the 16 miler that I was going to do on Sunday incorporating a 5.5m race was moved to Saturday. A bit of a lacklustre performance really (I have an idea that being out and drinking alcohol 3 consequ...... 3 nights on the trot before hand was a bad idea) but it got done.
And yeah my legs were done too. Soooooo tired, however I had work to do the next day.
Up at 5.30 Sunday to go and help out at Tri Sport Epping's Try a tri event. My job was swim timing and Mr H got the job of puller. He thought his luck was in but actually it was a really tough job pulling tired novice triathletes out of the pool when they are a dead weight :-D
Anyway, I think we saw 137 people in and out of the swim and then we got in the car back to Dagenham to my running clubs race which is part of the same series as the one last Tuesday had been. This one is pretty much all off road and consisted of 3 laps round the 'Chase' a small nature reservy thing. Pleasingly I did this in a 8.13 average, on much more tired legs than on Tues night. I was happy with that.
So, that left the swim. Raced home jumped in shower, picked up my wetsuit and stuff and we drove to Ipswich. Well, Mr H drove, I tried to make conversation with him but ended up dribbling on my chest when I went to sleep. He did a good job as we got there just as registration for my wave had started. I did a quick change, got interviewed by someone from the telly and went to acclimatise.
Ooooh it felt cold. But that's because I haven't been in OW for aaaages. Anyway I swam about a bit and satisfied myself that I could still swim. We then had to get out and be herded into a pen where some aerobics instructor thought she'd give herself some entertainment trying to make people lumbering about in wetsuits do a warm up. I joined in because there wasn't anything else to do. Then the compare interviewed people from earlier which was erm.......a load of cock really, I just wanted to get in the water! Eventually, when we had had enough time to become de-acclimatised we were allowed to go in.
The first 400m were a bit of a nightmare. Head up doggy paddle as usual which is very energy consuming. I told myself I could do that all the way if I needed....I know I am strong enough. And as soon as I had accepted that, I could put my face in the water. It really really is head games.
The rest of it was quite pleasant. The only other problem was the end because you had to swim under this gantry thing for the chip in your hat, but compared to massive bouys and flags it was really small and I couldn't see it! A canoeist and some shouting got me there.
Out onto the carpet and you get a goody bag with t shirt and medal and water and bits and bobs, then a photographer....er......no you cant take a picture of me looking like the creature from the black lagoon, but thanks for asking.
I did 39.03. I am very happy with that :)))))
AND, I did my exercises when I got in.
Rest day today, I have sessions later in the week that I want to hit. Oh and a sprint tri on Sunday. I am thinking of pumping up the tyres on my bike on Saturday. That will be bike training sorted!!!
Bye!!!!!!!!!
Sunday 10 June 2012
I love it......
When a plan comes together :-D
Or I will, that is what I keep telling myself.
The urge to enter events has been strong this week (I'm going Yoda help!h and I have been having to reign myself in.
Well sort of. I have entered a mile open water swim for next Saturday and a 3k one the day before Outlaw. I am toying with entering BRAT tri in September so I need to do some OW and tbh I could go to tri sport training sessions, but I never panic in those it's races I struggle with so I'm going to do races and just chuck myself in at the deep end so to speak.
I also have 2 running races this week. A 5 miler on tues night and another on Sunday. All Elvis stuff. I will need to incorporate Sundays race into a sixteen miler of which 10 miles are supposed to be at mp. The way my speed is at present my 5 mile pace is only just quicker than mp so I just go all out for that and then see if I can sustain any speed for another 5. Will be an interesting experiment.
I will say I think strength work is helping. Though I have been more tired this week because of an increase in the amount of it. Piriformis pain kicks in later and I'm finding my form better I think when I try to run faster.
Fuckinghell they will say as a fly past at 9 minute miles, she's not fast but she looks ace :-D on that note I know I'm 7lbs heavier than when I ran most of my PBS so that is definitely something to look at. Running volume is going up, that will help but I need to stop eating so much junk. (for that read stop drinking beer!!!!! Actually don't stop completely, there are certain social situations I couldn't do without a bit of alcohol, but you know what I mean)
And because I am doing the swim before outlaw I will now be supporting for as much of Sunday as I can. Plan is see swimmers into the water. Breakfast. Shout at every person who gets out of water :-) then go off onto the bike course to hurl some more abuse. I am not formally saying we will do marshalling stuff, we did that last year, but I am sure we will spend some time at feed station. Mr H loves that part of it. I like it too but the serious boys try to rip your arm off!
I didn't really have anything to say but I seem to have gone on so I'll shut up now. Next week I will have 3 events to report on!!!!!
Just need to end by saying that I hope Mr J Perox had a stormer doing whatever it was he was doing today :)))
Or I will, that is what I keep telling myself.
The urge to enter events has been strong this week (I'm going Yoda help!h and I have been having to reign myself in.
Well sort of. I have entered a mile open water swim for next Saturday and a 3k one the day before Outlaw. I am toying with entering BRAT tri in September so I need to do some OW and tbh I could go to tri sport training sessions, but I never panic in those it's races I struggle with so I'm going to do races and just chuck myself in at the deep end so to speak.
I also have 2 running races this week. A 5 miler on tues night and another on Sunday. All Elvis stuff. I will need to incorporate Sundays race into a sixteen miler of which 10 miles are supposed to be at mp. The way my speed is at present my 5 mile pace is only just quicker than mp so I just go all out for that and then see if I can sustain any speed for another 5. Will be an interesting experiment.
I will say I think strength work is helping. Though I have been more tired this week because of an increase in the amount of it. Piriformis pain kicks in later and I'm finding my form better I think when I try to run faster.
Fuckinghell they will say as a fly past at 9 minute miles, she's not fast but she looks ace :-D on that note I know I'm 7lbs heavier than when I ran most of my PBS so that is definitely something to look at. Running volume is going up, that will help but I need to stop eating so much junk. (for that read stop drinking beer!!!!! Actually don't stop completely, there are certain social situations I couldn't do without a bit of alcohol, but you know what I mean)
And because I am doing the swim before outlaw I will now be supporting for as much of Sunday as I can. Plan is see swimmers into the water. Breakfast. Shout at every person who gets out of water :-) then go off onto the bike course to hurl some more abuse. I am not formally saying we will do marshalling stuff, we did that last year, but I am sure we will spend some time at feed station. Mr H loves that part of it. I like it too but the serious boys try to rip your arm off!
I didn't really have anything to say but I seem to have gone on so I'll shut up now. Next week I will have 3 events to report on!!!!!
Just need to end by saying that I hope Mr J Perox had a stormer doing whatever it was he was doing today :)))
Monday 4 June 2012
Experimenting......
On me!
So 4 weeks ago I made an appointment with the guy who does my sports massage for PT with a very specific goal. To get me running properly again.
He is a qualified coach too and the running talk we had done made sense to me. We agreed I would see him once a month (can't really afford more than that) but that he would provide a running schedule also.
So first visit he shows me a mobility circuit sort of yoga y stuff some strength work and some core. He sends me a schedule of how many and when and 3 running sessions all of which contain a certain core element to be done at a target pace.
Well as near as you can get (not very) From what I can see so far we go light week (20 miles) to a bit more miles week (30+ miles) then back.
I haven't hit any targets so far but then that's why they are targets and I need a decent period of training with the strength and core stuff included to see the benefits.
I went back this Saturday for my second PT session, he showed me more exercises focusing a lot on lunges. I happily did what he showed me, getting the arms wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME. And thought on the way home 'I feel a bit tired' I was supposed to be doing 14 miles at MP but I was just Knackered. So I decided to put it off till later. We travelled to Maidenhead for a party. The 50th birthday of my PhD supervisor who does know how to party. On his 40th I remember I was in Sicily as I was presenting the next day but was kept amused by everyone texting me from his party telling me what a fab time they were having and how drunk they were :-D anyway it was probably doing that presentation that gave me the confidence to be able to finish my PhD so it wasn't all bad.
Anyway, where was I? Oh yes we went to maidenhead and I decided to do one of next weeks sessions a 5 miler with 2m at 10k pace. So off I went, 1 mile easy, 1 mile at......oh fuck, what am I doing, I can't breathe, my legs are like lead, what am I doing? So I did 2 more easy miles and called it a day. Went to the party, was awesomely well behaved, but aware my legs felt really tired. We marched back to the hotel in a monsoon at midnight.
When I got up for the loo at about 4am I was more than surprised that my glute muscles had failed. I had to roll out of bed and hang on to the side of the bath to place myself on the toilet. I cannot remember the last time I had DOMs like that, I feel better after marathons!. I felt better after 10 marathons!!!
So yesterday I still didn't do the 14 miler, I did nothing, I was completely incapable. I watched the progress of those doing GUCR and the deca, oh and the Madrid triathlon. That was all energetic enough for me :)
Last week I did my first 5k in ages as my club are part of a series and I would really like to be a part of it this year. My time was 24.41. I am taking that as baseline and bearing in mind my 5k PB I have lots of room for improvement.
Shall I try again for the 14 today?
So 4 weeks ago I made an appointment with the guy who does my sports massage for PT with a very specific goal. To get me running properly again.
He is a qualified coach too and the running talk we had done made sense to me. We agreed I would see him once a month (can't really afford more than that) but that he would provide a running schedule also.
So first visit he shows me a mobility circuit sort of yoga y stuff some strength work and some core. He sends me a schedule of how many and when and 3 running sessions all of which contain a certain core element to be done at a target pace.
Well as near as you can get (not very) From what I can see so far we go light week (20 miles) to a bit more miles week (30+ miles) then back.
I haven't hit any targets so far but then that's why they are targets and I need a decent period of training with the strength and core stuff included to see the benefits.
I went back this Saturday for my second PT session, he showed me more exercises focusing a lot on lunges. I happily did what he showed me, getting the arms wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME. And thought on the way home 'I feel a bit tired' I was supposed to be doing 14 miles at MP but I was just Knackered. So I decided to put it off till later. We travelled to Maidenhead for a party. The 50th birthday of my PhD supervisor who does know how to party. On his 40th I remember I was in Sicily as I was presenting the next day but was kept amused by everyone texting me from his party telling me what a fab time they were having and how drunk they were :-D anyway it was probably doing that presentation that gave me the confidence to be able to finish my PhD so it wasn't all bad.
Anyway, where was I? Oh yes we went to maidenhead and I decided to do one of next weeks sessions a 5 miler with 2m at 10k pace. So off I went, 1 mile easy, 1 mile at......oh fuck, what am I doing, I can't breathe, my legs are like lead, what am I doing? So I did 2 more easy miles and called it a day. Went to the party, was awesomely well behaved, but aware my legs felt really tired. We marched back to the hotel in a monsoon at midnight.
When I got up for the loo at about 4am I was more than surprised that my glute muscles had failed. I had to roll out of bed and hang on to the side of the bath to place myself on the toilet. I cannot remember the last time I had DOMs like that, I feel better after marathons!. I felt better after 10 marathons!!!
So yesterday I still didn't do the 14 miler, I did nothing, I was completely incapable. I watched the progress of those doing GUCR and the deca, oh and the Madrid triathlon. That was all energetic enough for me :)
Last week I did my first 5k in ages as my club are part of a series and I would really like to be a part of it this year. My time was 24.41. I am taking that as baseline and bearing in mind my 5k PB I have lots of room for improvement.
Shall I try again for the 14 today?
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