Righto, after a pretty shitty year for even managing to start events last year i'm quite determined to be better this year. So i'm starting to do some training I've heard good things about it!
So, I'm meant to be doing London Marathon - depending on how my achillies holds up over the next few weeks. Then I have leeds castle tri in June, and the Gauntlet middle distance in September. So that's the goals and its a long road. 8 months, or broken!
Tuesday 13 Jan:
5k run, 23:03 - average pace 7:30/mile, mile splits were 7:26, 7:47: 7:26 and a bit!
Legs were jelly for the last 500m, I was very nearly sick in my mouth in the last 200m and I felt like shit for the rest of the day, shaky hands the works. I might have started off too fast, and hung on a little. the max HR that I saw on the run was 183, which is a tad high to say the least (my last tested max was 192 and that was 4 years ago...I think I was close to my max). Oh and my lungs spent the rest of the day trying to escape from my chest through my mouth
Thursday 15th Jan:
4 mile run: 30:45 - average pace 7'41/mile, mile splits (from what I remember, left the garmin at work) 8'00, 7'47, 7'35, 7'26.
Legs felt much better than Tuesday, no jelly, no pain, no issues at all. I paced it really quite well I thought, I was aiming to start at 8 min pace (bang on!!!!) then increase it every mile after that, I hadn't intended to pick up the pace much as I did but it felt ok and I didn't have any trouble. Quite pleased with that.
Friday 16th Jan:
Swim, 1,600m untimed but pretty slow, around 35 or 40 minutes including breaks.
So the pool is only 18m long, so I had to do 11 lengths per 200, my 'sets' if floundering round like a drowning elephant count as sets were: 200m, 400m, 200m, 600m, 200m felt ok, arms a touch tired now, but otherwise i'm surprised at how well my technique had held together.