Went out early to work, via Swanage and climb up over Langton Matravers, and down Kingston, back into Corfe and then into work. Steady riding, couple of stops, 1 for money, and two to take off hat under helmet. Had 1 power bar gel after 40 minutes of riding. Total time out 1 hr 52 mins. Ave speed of 28.6 km/h. More importantly riding at good intensity, h/r average 145 bpm. Max h/r of 173 bpm. Took an hour for me to get my legs really moving, but on the whole felt good, quick recovery.
Will ride home easy tonight after work, and have evening off. Swim session at lunch tomorrow, will try and focus more on stroke technique and not just pile on the lengths. Bike to and from work.
Note to self - book a sports massage for next week.
5 comments:
are you taking any rest days in a week?
At the moment, I am training everyday. Monday is my easy day, no biking and a genlte swim at lunch. Some trainers/coaches do suggest that a recovery day is better with a little light excercise rather than total rest off/no activity.
But I will be taking one day off a week and when intensive training gets going towards the end of January I will have a full rest day. Body will need it!
Training will vary from week to week. 2 weeks of intensive long sessions followed by 1 week of more focus on recovery, giving the body chance to adaprt and then 2 morw weeks increasing effort and so on.
Like most amateurs I don't have a coach so I have to go on as much feel as anything else, but being aware of not overdoing things. Easy to go overdo it, especially when feeling good. The secret is knowing when to stop in a session and sticking to the goal for that session.
have any well known triathletes written anybooks that contain their schedules that you can adapt to suit yourself as an Ironman virgin?
Book by Tom Holland that I have called the 12-week triathlon, has a host of training plans for each distance.
Based on your level of fitness, reckons you can train for any distance in 12 weeks!!!
Unfortunately I do need a little longer than that!!!
Post a Comment