An interesting fact from doing my Annual Review

I cam 7th in my age group in the swim at UK HIM....I never looked at age group positions before...not sure why....

Image from the Highworth Tri

Me coming into the finish chute for the Highworth Tri - no a bad piccie I thought...

Another week of rest

I cracked again this morning - I could take the inactivity no more!! On Sunday I did an hour on the turbo and today was my only other exercise - a swim set:

200m w/u
10x100m in on 1:30 go on 2min
200m drills (25m catch up/ 25 fists/25m right c up/ 25 fists/25m left c up/ 25 fists/ 25m long pull/ 25 fists)
200m kick with fins (50m b/fly/50 right side/50 left side/50 sprint)
100m c/d (25 b/s /25 f/c)

A nice simple set to start the day!

My attempt at a rest period continues

Well the lack of phys is doing my head in - I have done almost no exercise in a week - today I cracked! I went to the pool and thrashed out:

200m w/u
200m kick (50m b/fly, 50m right side, 50m left side, 25m back, 25m front) with fins
200m fists (one finger increase per 50m) and fins
2x100m long strokes
50m c/d

felt soooo good but this no exercise has repercussions - I went out at lunch and bought a new car - swapping the Jag saloon for an A6 Avant - wayhay I can now get to events without nicking Liz's 4x4

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This morning

Another chilled pool session - similar to one done on Moday - yes I am trying to have a break but it is hard!!!

200m w/u
200m kick w fins (on sides/arms out/arms back)
3x (200m as 50m catchup/50m fists/50m outstretched fingers/50m long pulls)
100m c/d

Off to Berlin now (just sitting at the airport) back Friday

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Smaller versions of my bike pictures

Recovery....

No time to train yesterday so first chance to get back in the pool was today - no idea how far I went but it was about 20mins...sore shoulders and tight quads (oh and the pulled muscle in my back is still there - three weeks on...)

Nice to swim again....but really not sure how I am going to manage being off training for 4 weeks - yes I am going to take a break from all things tri for a while...starting the end of this week :-O

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Highworth Tri - 20 Sept 09

It was a fun day - nice small friendly tri with a mildly challenging bike and run. I struggled with the race a bit as I swim quickly and as such most of the people in my wave came in the top 10-15 so I lost them all after about the second hill on the bike :-(


Splits


Swim - 5:47:7 (3rd) 
T1 - 1:10.1 
Bike - 43:56.4 (66th) 
T2 - 1:19.1 
Run - 33:29.6 (95th)  


Swim - okay but the guy front Nigel Evans (came in 11th) held me up - he was just going fast enough to make overtaking hard but just slow enough I caught him on every length...but at least I top 3'd for the swim  


T1 - all went wrong - I could not get my Garmin on - (need a w'proof HRM I think) and then I unracked my bike and realised I had not got my helmet on - I reracked my bike put on bone dome and then tried again - as I looked up the marshall was looking directly at me so I grinned and headed off - lucky not to have been penalised...  


Bike - fairly hilly and despite saying in an earlier post it was a road bike course I think it would be faster on my Aerotic...it just rfelt easier last week when I did the recce (plus it was 3mins quicker:frown:)  


T2 - horrible run in from the road and then I could not get my socks on - I know I should run without them but I just cannot seem to do it!!  


Run - completely demolished me. Firstly I normally road run, secondly I use Newtons so for the grass route I had to swap to my heavy trainers - OMG my legs felt sooo heavy....Andy Shipton laped me on the first loop at a huge speed too which was pretty demoralising as I came through T1 at the same time as him...


Overall though good fun - limited goody bag but hey it was only £25 to enter (and the bottle of beer brewed/labeled for the race was a nice treat!) bit stiff today and glad it is the end of the season as I need a break - have been racing since May and keeping that momentum going has been hard....  


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...and another in the evening

I decided not to go to the evening swim session as I have strained a muscle in my back - getting Julia in and out of the car I think.....

So rather than miss the opportunity I decided to do a quick session on the turbo instead - the first 15 or so kms of the Paris to Roublais classic...nice and easy

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