Andy's Training Diary

Current programme: Winter base: build up swim distance to 2k, runs to 10k, do one long ride a week and introduce olympic weightlifting in a light, explosive way to get some plyometric power.

Best Times:
Half-marathon 2:12.
10k run 59:00
10 mile bike time trial 27:47.
400m swim 9:13
Best Lifts:
Squat 140kg (308lb)
Deadlift 170kg (374lb).
Triathlons:
May 2006: Wellington Novice (200m swim / 13k bike / 3k run). Popped my cherry and did it on a fixed-wheel bike to boot. Swim: 6:26; Bike: 34:52; Run 14:47. Total: 56:05.

June 2006: Burnham Tri - 1:32:56 - 15:00 swim; 42:30 bike; 35:26 run.

June 2006: Bude - My first OW event. Swim: 00:26:30, Bike: [/i] 00:38:47, Run: 00:31:21; Total: 01:36:38

September 2006: Cotswold - 40th in age group G (35-40) out of 53. Swim 09:12, Bike 38:32; Run 23:19; Overall 01:11:04

Training Diary

January 31, 2006 -

20 miles commute (took the train home). Tiring.

January 30, 2006 -

1 mile easy pace. Been slacking, need more discipline! Kinda lost focus with the whole impending-house-move thing, but it's coming back. Weigh-in 104.2kg, 34%. Tsk!

January 29, 2006 -

2 miles with the trailer. Cold!

January 25, 2006 -

10 lengths of the pool at lunchtime. Not great form, pretty gulpy, but done.

January 22, 2006 -

10 miles on the fixie. Tough!

January 21, 2006 -

Two miles (real two miles, not just to the sign) in 19:35 first thing in the morning. Feet, ankles and shins were suffering. Couple more here then up to three.

January 20, 2006 -

Just 3 miles tooling around on Lance. Need more miles! Aiee!

January 19, 2006 -

1 mile, 9:56. Pretty easy and comfortable.

January 15, 2006 -

My First Brick: the 2-mile heavy trailer veg box chore, followed immediately with a 1-mile run. Mmm, transition!

January 14, 2006 -

Ten miles of offroad madness with Hummers and Co. featuring slippery valley-side death walls of perilous deadly DEATH. Scary stuff and very hard work - so much off-bike that I could probably call it a brick!

January 13, 2006 -

Swim: Eight lengths of breaststoke, with some torpedo crawl kick for good measure.

January 12, 2006 -

Just a couple of miles trailer run today. Cheat day!

January 11, 2006 -

2 mile (ish) run, 16:10. I need to get out there and measure a legitimate mile with the GPS.

January 09, 2006 -

Broke my five-year duck and WENT FOR A SWIM at lunchtime! Bah to you panic attacks: it is by will alone I set my thighs in motion. Six lazy breatstroke lengths that were suprisingly hard, but who cares? Did it! Woohoo!

Weekly weigh-in: 103.4kg, 35.5%.

January 08, 2006 -

One mile run in 9:14 with Sam. Forefoot striking most of the way, felt pretty good.

January 07, 2006 -

10 miles on the fixie. Hilly, and chased by zombies through the dark. Honest.

January 05, 2006 -

1 mile in 9:47, nice easy pace with Sam and snow and lots of traffic. Ready to move up to 2.

January 01, 2006 -

1 mile run in 9:23. Good, getting faster. (I wonder if that was faster because it was daylight?)

Weigh-in: 104.6kg, 36%. Holy crap. Target for the end of the month: 100kg.

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