For the last three weeks I’ve been slowly getting back into some training, taking care not to aggravate the tendonitis. I’m up to 50km a week running now, which for me is not great, but at least reasonable. When we were in Vientiene, in Laos, I found a great local running track so I was able to do a good running session and measure my progress. The session was one of my favorites: 2x4km at threshold measured with 3 min break and a good warm up and cool down. I managed to run 15:31 and 15:34 in 36C heat, which I was happy with. This session is my benchmark session and at my best I was able to do these in under 13:30, so I’m a long way off that, but that was when I was running 32 min 10k.
For the last few days we’ve been staying on the lovely Phi Phi Island in Thailand and I’ve run 6-10k every morning, swam every day and we have a yoga class every day in the evening. Yoga is great for flexibility and core strength, which helps both with a low aero position on the bike and running off the bike. Today’s running session was 5x800 reps at 3min pace on the beach – hard work in lovely surroundings. Soon we’ll be back in the UK and there is just over 100 days to Ironman Austria.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
It's March already!
The picture this time is me trying to learn surfing at the Kuta Beach in Bali. I certainly didn’t break any surfing records, but I’m convinced trying to balance on the surfboard improves bike handling skills :)
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The tendonitis is finally getting better and in the last few days I was able to start running again. I want to take things slowly this time – the last thing I want is to start doing too much and have to rest it again, so I’ve been trying to run 6k each day and so far so good. Other than that a couple of gym sessions on a stationary trainer, some weights and some swimming in Bali have kept me going in the last couple of weeks.
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