Friday 26th of Feb 2010

Up early again. Nice change as it was +2c!!
Had a quick half hour swim. Did some speed work and then the pool just got too full.
Home for a quick coffe and then on my bike to work. 10k run at lunch at pace 5min per k. Legs needs to just have a strech out after yesterday. They feel tired!
I am trying very hard to convince my wife that I need to fork out some serious cash for a Planet X TT bike :) fingers crossed!
Will cycle home, chill this evening and try to do 1 or 2 hours on the turbo trainer tomorrow and maybe a swim Sunday!
Have a good weekend.

dream dream dream!

Thursday 25th of Feb 2010

A nice early start. Woke before the alarm as usual. I can at least say that my body clock is now well trained!!
Cycled to work in -2 which was a treat compared to the -5 of the last few days. Got to work, changed and met up with my two running buddies. None of us were feeling great but we set off anyway. Two small water bottles and 3 energy gels on my belt..off we go. Ok so after 10 steps my left calf muscle is hurtiing, one mates heart rate is up to 170 and the other feels like hell, nice start! It sleated the whole way and after 18k one of my mates was in real trouble so I hung back with him. We met another mate coming the other way who joined us and so 2 went off faster and we just jogged along at around 5 min pace. My mate really had a hard run so I was just pleased to see him finish. We did it in under 2 hours so it was an ok pace from my point of view (5 min per K for 24k).
Now my legs feel like hell and I will not be running again before Monday...then ill do another 24k!
Will cycle home very gently this afternoon! May have a swim in the morning and Ill try to get a turbo trainer session in over the next day or two.

Wednesday 24th of Feb 2010

Day of rest today. Had a great swim last night. Cycled to work today and will cycle back. Thats it though for today. The plan is to do 24k again tomorrow morning! Lets see how that goes.
The weather may be on the up as far as temp goes so I hope that next week I may be able to head out for a long ride! fingers crossed.
Will update tomorrow am after 2nd half marathon of the week.

Tuesday 23rd of Feb 2010

Another cold start to the day. Cycled to work. Legs felt slow and heavy...not a great feeling but also not a big suprise really.
Did an hour of spinning at lunch which was pretty intense! Will cycle home and then have an hour swim this evening. Was planning to do another half marathon in the morning but right now it seems like a bad idea..lets see.

Monday 22nd of Feb 2010

I know what you're thinking, "ideal running conditions"! that's what I thought too. I was woken by the wind and swirling snow...lets go running I thought. So at 5:15 I kind of fell out of bed, auto piloted my way down stairs into my cycling kit and made my way to work..-6c and windy so I couldn't feel my face or hands by the time I got to work. Then into my running kit with thermal under trousers. Out side to get a satellite lock and off we went for a 24k run. Around 1 hour and 50 minutes later we were back! Herm....I must have lost a few marbles in the last few months! what the heck am I doing out running in this crappy weather.

I had a very quiet weekend with no phys except a quick 5k to go pick my car up yesterday. Oh and that was only -5c!  My geography must have been worse than I thought as I never realised Denmark was in the Arctic Circle!

Will cycle back home this afternoon and then tomorrow some spinning and swimming!

Have a good one!

Friday 19th of Feb 2010

Snow snow snow! soooo bored of snow! We had another 3 inches last night!
Up early, managed to slip and slide the car to the pool and do 1k. Then spent half an house clearing snow from the path outside our house (thats the law here). Cycled to work which was fun in the snow! a few hairy moments!
Ran 10k at work with an avg pace of 4:30 per k. Very happy with the pace but found it hard today. I think I am getting to a stage where I need a few days to rest a little and just let my body repair it self!
Will cycle home then out for a few beers tonight! got to train the liver too at some point!

Thursday 18th of Feb 2010

Another early start today. Good uick ride to work and then a really hard 1 hour spinning session! HR up at 165 the whole time. Legs like jelly now. Will cycle home later.
Tomorrow I plan to swim in the am, cycle to work and then do a speed session in running at lunch time! hermm..doesnt sound that tempting right now.
Found a company that I can get a full mono carbon TT frame delieverd for £400! do I do it???

Wednesday 17th of Feb 2010

Morning! Had a really great swim last night. Getting much faster and am finding the breathing much better now. Hurray!! At last its starting to pay off. I think 3 days a week is much better.
Cycled to work as usual and will do a v gentle 10k run today. Then cycle home. Back to blog a little later. Looking for Carbon bike frame from far east! lets see how I get on.


Update 12:01pm - Ok so I ran 10k at 5 min pace (just under) with a HR of 148. All good - BUT my legs are soooo tired. I am sure Monday was too much for me and I will have to bring down the pace for my half marathon Mondays! Had lunch but still feel hungry!

Tuesday 16th of Feb 2010

Up early today having slept better. Legs felt like hell when I woke up... wil have to reconcider the pace next Monday! Cycled to work. Spinning at lunch time which was pretty intence today!
Will cycle home and then this evening will go swimming for an hour or so.
My legs are sooooo tired though.
More later
Johan

PS just found this:
http://www.abudhabitriathlon.com/
Could be one for 2011 me thinks!

Monday 15th Of Feb 2010

Well its the start of another week. I didnt have a very restful weekend. Did 1 hour turbo trainer on Saturday after running around a forest with my daughter on a hourse! was meant to be just walking around but the teacher thought it would be fun to run in 10 inches of snow...nice. Sunday did 2k swim which went really really well so am very pleased with that and then did some gym work to encourage my wife (who did very well) and also to work on my upper body a little.

This morning I was up at 5:30 again..very hard to drag my self up today though as I didnt have a great sleep. Cycled to work and then met one of the guys here and did another half marathon. Avg of 4:36 per k and a new PB of 1h:36m for the whole thing. Legs tired but mind very happy!

Have heard some really funny phrases recently from guys here:

"Pain is just weekness leaving the body"
"There is a fine line between stupi and cool"

My fave is when they say "We'll just take it nice and easy" with a smirk on the face which means were going to go flat out!