Weekly Update

Monday 15th June 09

My legs were still hurting from the brick on Sunday and so I just did an easy 25 minute spin on the windtrainer with Adam. I'm trying to encourage him to use it more.

Tuesday 16th June 09

Another spin on the windtrainer with Adam but this time I used it as a warm up for my run. I left him to it after 20 minutes and went on my run. He carried on for a total of about 45mins I think. I had a good 10k run along Fraser Street. Just happy that my calf is giving me no grief whatsoever. Finished in 58:30. Happy with that.

Wednesday 17th June 09

Weigh in night at the weight loss challenge and so this in some way excuses me from training. There's logic there somewhere. Lost 1.2Kg so well pleased. Total percentage loss is now 11%.

Thursday 18th June 09

Had to work late so no training. Again another excuse that won't be accepted (by me) when I start training proper for the race.

Friday 19th June 09

Another attempt at the 10K along Fraser St. I'm using this as my base training route because it has hills and is a bit more interesting and more challenging than Cameron Road. Same sort of pace as Tuesday with a time of 58:58. I'll be looking to increase this Friday run to 90 ins over next few months. Not going to do anything too drastic so maybe the odd 5 or 10 mins added every few weeks.

Saturday 20th June 09

Rest day but did take the kids swimming. The local pool has an 18m kiddies pool and it's about a zillion degrees warmer than the main pool so we spent all our time in there. We had lots of 'races' and the kids loved kicking my @r$e in the one length sprint. I was able to show my dominance in the endurance 36m race by pulling ahead in the final 10m as they both weakened. Jo just mostly rolled her eyes at our 'competitiveness'. Great fun.

Sunday 21st June 09

Two words to describe the Sunday morning long bike ... Freezing Cold!!!. I haven't been so cold on the bike since last year's attempt at the Rotorua Half route when certain bits of me felt like thay were gonna break off. I rode out to my favourite hill ride, Reid Road and attempted a timed climb just to see how much fitness I had lost since the times I climbed it almost weekly (it semed).

I rode hard to the top but not 'out of the saddle puking as you go hard' but hard enough to produce some very impressive snot rockets. I was just using my lowest gear and so my cadence was high but it seemed even higher than normal and it seemed like I was making good time. I got to the top in 12:30.

At the time I didn't know where this sat in my list of times. I hadn't intended to time the climb so hadn't checked on previous times. It was only when I got back and looked at old posts that I realised that it was my second fastest EVER! ... and the fastest in that gear.

I need to get back there next week and try some climbs in bigger gears ... just to see. I think it's fair to say that the weight loss has helped greatly with this. I now have my eye on a Sub12 Reid Road climb. Maybe if I can just drop a few more pounds and swap some of the fat for leg muscles.

Next week is going to be erm ... difficult. Jo goes into hospital on Tueday for some 'womens' things. She may have to stay in overnight. It means I have to do the washing and cook dinners. I'm not good with washing machines and ovens :( Not sure if there will be any time for training ;)