Turbo Man's Fitness Blog: So much for a solid week of training

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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, 31 August 2008

So much for a solid week of training

I had great plans for training over this last week, but for a number of reasons it didn't happen. After a good weekend of training last week, Monday was another good day with a 2 x 20 minute session on the turbo at 95% FTP/300 watts (a small increase on recent weeks). Tuesday was always going to be an easy day but it ended up as a rest day. Wednesday started well with a really good, hard and fast 8.65km run first thing in the morning. Wednesday night was supposed to be another hard turbo session but I was feeling tired so changed it to a 40 min fat-burning recovery session (70% of FTP/220 watts). Thursday I was working in Luton and Friday I was at PJHQ for pre-deployment briefs so didn't get the chance to train on either days. Saturday was the 10 mile TT (see below) and today my legs were sore so I didn't do anything this morning and I also had to work so no chance of anything during the day. So, a grand total of just 3 hours training this week. Would have been a great taper, just 1 week too early. I don't have any plans for this week so it will be interesting to see how my proper week of taper turns out. I would suggest that with this level of training I have been doing this year (average 7.5 hours per week) there is no need to taper, just carry on as before but take Friday off. I'll see how I feel.

1 comment:

Sags said...: Hey mate. i am back in the world of blog land! Seems like you have managed to pack in some decent training. 24:44 is good on that course and you cannot complain with a course pb! My race report from Almere now out! Chat later; 3 September 2008 at 14:50