Turbo Man's Fitness Blog: A beautiful morning

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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

Monday 4 May 2009

A beautiful morning

But I had set myself an hour on the turbo so after a lovely hour walk along the beach with Bandit, watching the sailing boats bobbing around and the Isle of Wight ferries crossing in the Solent, I jumped on the turbo for a moderate session. Unfortunately I only managed 50 minutes before the call of "Breakfast's ready, come and get it before the dog does" but it was a worthwhile session nonetheless. I included some tabata efforts as well, but this only served to demonstrate my woeful lack of speed and endurance at the moment - I only managed 4 reps at a pathetic max (Tacx) power of 411 watts. There is clearly lots of work to do over the coming weeks. A CP30 power session is on the cards to set a baseline for the remainder of my base training period (6 weeks).

Yesterday we had a "Patch BBQ", a nice opportunity to meet our neighbours and enjoy some sunshine (although the sunshine was also patchy!).

Train smart folks, and enjoy the weather.

2 comments:

Sags said...: At least you are pedaling dude and that's what matters. i see that hewell did the Squires! i beat him!! But then he was probably using one leg and fresh as a daisy whilst I was shattered!; 4 May 2009 at 12:56
Mark "Frank" Whittle said...: T-Man, you don't need to bother training, forget the pool, the bike and that running stuff, just turn up at Brize and "enjoy" a fun sprint race! :-)

Sags, Hywel (correct spelling) was on his fixie, rather him than me!; 4 May 2009 at 15:38