Turbo Man's Fitness Blog: I Can't Count ..

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'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.' Theodore Roosevelt 23 April 1910

Wednesday, 28 May 2008

I Can't Count ..

Well I got to the pool this morning and it was open so got stuck into my 5 x 400m session. I don't like it but sometimes it just has to be done. First one was completed in 6:36 but my ability to count went to pieces after that and I recorded 7:03 and then 7:26 even though the effort was supposedly increasing. Binned the last 2 efforts and did a "200" in 3:38 (WTF!!!) and then a 100 in 2:30 (Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!). I guess it is a combination of not hitting the buttons on my watch properly and not counting correctly but it seriously messed with my head.

Nice easy 4.5 mile run this evening with my son and the dog.

Any advice for tapering for a HIM next week would be appreciated. It's not my A race so I'm happy to try something different. I've found that resting completely 2 days before the event and then doing some very short race pace stuff the day before works well for me - what would you suggest?

4 comments:

Kelda said...: Will post more on that later today when I get to the Yotel at Gatwick, ...; 29 May 2008 at 07:39
Sags said...: This tapering lark confuses me! Your plan sounds good Mick. Kelda 'the wise one' will be better placed to advise me thinks! Hey, just pulled the scab off my elbow from the bike crash...it's in the post to you....nice 8-( Well you may be hungry!; 29 May 2008 at 09:26
Turbo Man said...: MINGER!; 29 May 2008 at 12:34
Anonymous said...: My taper is 3 days before dont do any hard stuff and just tick over by doing spin sets on the bike nice and easy for an hour, one swim very easy but with a few 25m sprints, and the day before a race do the following:
15 min warm up
5 x 60s easy fast spinning
1 min recoveries
5 x 30s easy fast spin
1 min RI
5 x 15s fast spin
10 min cool down

followed by a 20 min very easy effort run/jog

That works for me then the same the day after and then a day off before i start nailing myself again haha; 29 May 2008 at 14:15