Rest day

Rest day.
Still not much energy. Fingertips still numb. I washed my trike and we went out for a curry on the Cowley road, to a place we’ve not been before – Jaipur (I picked it on the basis of some good Daily Info (http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/) reviews). It was very good.
69.9kg

Cycle 45km

AM. Cycle 45km/1:40, easy, HR 131(150) ascent 240m
Inc. Benson triangle 27.9km/1:01 (27.4km/h)  27.0km/h HR 132(150)
Out for a *very* easy spin round the “Benson triangle”. 82% in the zone 1/2 comfort zone, working to a max HR of 145, although I blew it once up a short climb, into the wind.
I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s Watford [...]

Cycle 25km

PM. Cycle 25km/57, easy, with Jules. HR 119(144)
Took the afternoon off with Jules and headed over to Marlow with the bikes in the boot of the car. We went for a spin around the Rower’s Revenge cycle route, mainly to refresh my memory of it and see where the difficult/easy bits were. It’s fairly lumpy, [...]

Cycle 49km

PM. Cycle 49km/1:38 (30.0km/h) easy steady, HR 124(147)
Went out for a quiet ride around Otmoor after work, legs pretty hammered from yesterday’s double session. It was blowing a bit and getting cold and the first time I’ve been out in a long sleeve top and leg-warmers for some time. Saw Chris Smith heading out just [...]

Cycle 37km

PM. Cycle 37km easy, HR 114(141)
Had some dentistry done this afternoon, so I was feeling a bit sore and not in the mood for doing much. Went out for an easy ride with Jules. Nice evening, a late summer seems to have descended.
72.7kg

Rest day

Rest day
Went out in town last night for a birthday do. Felt a bit monged out all day as a result and didn’t train this evening. Took delivery of some orange tyres for the Colnago. Socks was suitably unimpressed:

72.7kg

Swim 2700m

AM. Swim 2700m steady easy
Feeling very tired, so I practised my tumble turns as I have to take it easy down each length to prepare myself for the menatl effort of the turn at the end and didn’t feel like going hard today. Did some fairly rubbish turns, although I did one absolutely brilliant one [...]

Run 9km & Erg 10km

AM. Run 9km/40, steady. HR 149(159)
Not too knackered this morning to go out for a run. Nice cool morning, left achilles tendon not giving me much trouble.
PM. Erg 10km/38:51 (1:56.6) r22 HR 144(152)
Cleared out a bit more of the rubbish in the garage, tidied up a bit and washed a bike. Once the warmth had [...]

Erg 7km inc. Concept2 4min

AM. Erg 7km inc 4 mins for the Concept 2 Challenge Series (http://www.concept2.co.uk/challengeseries/)
3km w/u
4 min = 1170m (1:42.6) r32. (splits 590/580), HR 160(170)
3km w/d
Had a go at the Concept2 Challenge this morning. Once again, hard to get going in the morning but I quite enjoyed it in a perverse sort of way. I need to [...]

Erg 8km (inc. CTC 2k@24) & cycle 47km

AM. Erg 8km total inc. CTC (http://www.c2ctc.com/) 2km @ 24spm
3km w/u
2km @ r24: 7:12.2 (1:48.1) HR160(170)
3km w/d
Splits off the PM2:
500m 1:47.4 r24 (although the monitor said r45, how???)
1000m 1:48.6 r24
1500m 1:47.9 r24
2000m 1:48.3 r24
I find it hard to get going at this time of the morning, so after finishing a ¾-pint mug of tea the [...]