Turbo Man's Fitness Blog: Mission Accomplished

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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

Sunday, 27 July 2008

Mission Accomplished

This week was all about the bike, getting out and riding it. In both the Bala Middle Distance and the Cowman races I was conscious of my legs lacking strength endurance towards the end of the bike course and with the Aberfeldy Half Ironman coming up on 16 August and the hilly nature of that course I am determined to be able to ride hard all the way. The hilly nature means I will be leaving the Prince of Darkness at home and taking my trusty Litespeed, so all the road riding this week has been on this bike. I've throughly enjoyed riding on the road this week (the great weather has helped) but the turbo sessions have not gone so well, so hopefully I can build these up over the coming fortnight. I also need to increase the swimming and running as well. A look at this week's training stats will explain:

Swimming - 40 minutes
Running - 1 hour 16 minutes
Core, stretch & flex - 30 minutes
Cycling - 7 hours 49 minutes
Total - 10 hrs 15 minutes (compared to an average of 7 hrs 27 minutes so far this season)

So this week I will reduce the amount of time cycling, add in another swim session and a long run and hopefully get a better balance in the programme. This week was all about cycling, so Mission Accomplished there.

The second aim was to lose a few pounds before Aberfeldy, and I'm pleased to report that I am going well. I raced Cowman at about 11st 9lbs and yesterday morning I was 11st 7lbs. Target weight is 11st 4lbs and if I can get close to that it will make getting over those Scottish mountains so much easier.

Train smart folks.