More unattractive than a Czech Air steward

Snot is flowing entirely without any sense of impending abatement. I'm coughing like the victim of a 1800's industrial disease, and my already pasty skin has been further adorned by scaley red blotches. And to confirm my readiness for a job on Czech Airlines, I am completely predisposed to not giving a rats about anyone other than me. It's all about me.

Man flu has hit delux.

Felt it coming on before our Saturday Cobitty, and a swim Sunday confirmed my fate.

Suck it up Princess, it's gonna get ugly.

W

Rumpy pumpy day

Board meeting day. A day each mOnth when 4 thoroughly uninspiring individuals bend me over a table and have their way with me. Rumpy pumpy day

Update from the train

Quick log:

Monday: swim before work. 3x100, 2x200. 1x300. Massive

Tuesday: 3 slow mm to test the leg. Ready to try and resume. 60 min on ergo trying to smooth out the stroke

Wed: am 40 min gym. /. Pm 8km in about 42 min. Shabby as. The pre injury progress has largely Evaporated.

Onwards and upwards
W

Fried and Roasted

2 hrs on the bike this morning out at the Regatta Centre with Shane and his very smock new. Cevelo TT.

30km on the red side of tempo. Something of a mini block of cycling this week.

FRIED and ROASTED

W

Oh fuck I've drowned

Friday swim session. 20x50m. Each rep in a time between 50sec and something a lot worse than 50 sec. Not sure what the recovery period was between reps, but I was in the water for 29minutes in total. seriously, thank God for shallow ends.

Friday also in used a ride to work and a full on 45 minute pump at lunch with Lachlan. Managed to hold his wheel at least, though spent virtually the whole ride red lining.

Sat, very enjoyable tempo ride up to Woodford.

All in all, leg not withstanding, it's going forward, and you can't be unhappy with that.

Still sulking - time for n experiment

With my leg Feeling like it's been chewed by a rabid dog, I wonder what would happen if I swam say 5 times a week leading up to nepean. Three weeks, could I get under 20 min in three weeks from zero.

Nuttin to lose"........

W

ARGH !!!!! Calf - blown to bits

Calf blown again. Limping like a warped chair.

Very vEry frustrating.

Monday. Cycle club 35k - good intensity

Tuesday - an run, calf blew. Walk home and off to the pool fr a first morning swim 10 x 100

Wednesday - 30min weights + 60 min tempo ride on ergo

Thursaday - official day of sulking

W

Best Training Week So Far

Minor calf strain a left-over from Friday afternoon's run. The new-age sensible me decided against running the 21.1 at SMC as I had planned.

Opted for an eye-balls out pump up to Faulco. Cracked a bit just past Springwood, but a good ride none-the-less.

For the week:
221 on bike
31 on hoof.

Pretty much all of it with good purpose and quality.

Best training week so far. Giddy up!

W

Fried like a chicken

4.5 recovery run this morning.

2:00 on bike in the pm.60 on tt bike, including 7x hill intervals. Forced in doors by the down pour to finish offwith 60 min on rollers. Very solid going.

Fried but feelin good

W

The Night Rider

Didn't get to jump on the bike until 9:15 last night. Pumped out an hour on the rollers, with 4 x 8min intervals as the goal. Blew to bits on the last one, but still mighty happy. I recall an early blog post where I didn;t have the leg strength to hold a heart rate over 120 for any extended period. Inetrvals reaching 150 last night, so pogress on that front. Time for time trial test soon I suspect.

10k at lunch time today. Awesome feeling when a scheduled easy run actually feels easy. 51:50 for 10, easy as....

A little progress at last. Great feeling.

W

Better

8k at better than 5s with hr never breaching 141. Improving efficiency- 84.3kg. Ditching 4kg helping also.

Happy happy days
W

Outstanding ticks

Hopefully money, available time and health will allow me to continue to pursue the outstandings on my bucket list.

Will be calling for partners at some point after (hopefully) knocking over this IM thing.

The “activity” based things on my list include:

Ø  Ultimate day ride (Sol Du Solude, Sarenne)

Ø  Galibier (in fact 4 days cycling in the Maurienne Valley)

Ø  Run an overseas marathon

Very keen to squeeze in

Ø  Tormelet

Ø  Mortirolo

Ø  4+ days cycling/trail running in Annecy

Ø  Some trail running from Victoria in Canada.

W

Back and into it

Back from holidays for a week and a half now and back into it. Still have a pesky kennel cough that I picked up on the plane home and can’t shake – but generally into it.

Good trip  - will stick to my previous advice to anyone who rides a bike. Don’t die without doing the French Alpes.

4 bucket list ticks:

Ø  Ventoux – tick

Ø  Took RJ to Disneyland before he is 10.(Made it by a month)

Ø  Paddled under the Pont du Gard

Ø  Saw  Guernica

Would have been 5, but rained out and temps dropped below freezing the day I has scheduled for Galibier. Next time.

Stated training again now:

The log for the Period since return:

Sat 1/10                Ride 1hr +  Greendale on TT

Sun 2/10              Run 20k run/trek of Narrow Neck in 4deg + whatever wind chill factor attaches to 30kph winds and dizzling rain.Mon 3/10   Ride tt on the aeros 40k

Tue 4/10              Rest - coughing

Wed 5/10            pm – 7.5k tempo run. Nice going though respiratory problems causing grief.

Thu 6/10              pm – heaving up lungs – technically a rest day.

Fri 7/10                 pm – death by kennel cough - nought

Sat 8/10                pm – sick as a dog – slow miserable lap of the lake 5k in 26min

Sun 9/10              am - - tempo lap of the river  

Mon 10/10          pm – easy run 8.5k with 3 x 1km at 10k goal pace

Tu 11/10               pm – hard pump home on the rat route – in the tt in the aero position 35k

We 12/10             am – ride to work easy 35k

29.6weeks to IM – Psyched and ready to get into it.

W