Turbo Man's Fitness Blog: I've failed

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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

Thursday, 23 April 2009

I've failed

It's the way life is I'm afraid, but I have failed in reaching my target of cycling 60km a day this week, by some margin. However, I have another plan...

Unfortunately I have to go to Milton Keynes on a course next week so I'll be taking my run, gym and swim kit and will fit in what I can when I can. The following week, though, I will hopefully be able to hit the cycling properly.

I was doing some training programme stuff last night. There are 24 weeks (including this week) to Quelle Challenge Barcelona, so 3 x 8 week cycles to allow base, build and speed phases. I have 3 cycle sportives planned over distances of 150 to 200km so my endurance will be fully tested on these. The speedwork I can do on the turbo but will add some 10, 25 and 50 mile TTs to get used to riding PoD and its somewhat extreme position (pictures soon, I promise).

On the upside, our daughter has very quickly settled into her new school; she was Star of the Day on Wednesday and Star of the Week this week.

Train smart folks.

2 comments:

Lonsy said...: I've done 130km, averaging just over 30kph, since Saturday morning...yay me!; 26 April 2009 at 21:52
Sags said...: Nice work Turbo Daughter! Must have an intelligent Mum! Just entered the Squires Sportif - EEKK! Must not crash!; 27 April 2009 at 22:22