Categories: uncategorized
Date: 29 January 2004 21:48:15
well after another week of poor training due to work & weather constraints i decided to relax & have a bit of 'fun' tonight. on the tritalk forum we have a little dry triathlon competition which we can all do in the gym & compete for times on. it's 2km on the rowing machine, 20km on an exercise bike and 5km on the treadmill.
i have to admit rowing is one of my least favourite activities, it seems to exercise almost every muscle i own & tire me out very quickly. i set out quite quickly and find it fairly easy, until the end of the first 500m where i realise i still have 3 times the distance to go i slow a little with the occasional effort to go a bit quicker!
i find the exercise bike that looks closest to my size already to save adjusting it and hop on, putting it into race setting which means the resistance level & pedalling speed actually relate more realistically to distance travelled. the distance seems to go depressingly slowly, taking the odd drink every few minutes since i'm sweating loads.
glad to be finally off the bike i switch to the treadmill on 1% incline.. starting at 10kph i ramp the speed up every minute until i'm doing 13kph. if there's one downside to all the long distance training i've been doing, it's a complete inability to run fast and i'm soon down to 12kph just to keep my breathing and heart rate down. i try to speed up but settle for watching the metres go by to 5km.
whilst i'm running, ironically considering my inability to get out running in the evening,i see a load of people come in in outdoor running type gear. the gym has started a social running group on thursday evenings, maybe i should take the hint and go along next week!
row 2km: 7:56
transition 1: 1:33
cycle 20km: 31:37
transition 2: 1:09
run 5km: 24:46
total: 1:07:02
came home... stuffed self with food :)
[todays run: 5km = 3.1miles 0:24]
[this weeks run total: 6.6miles]
[todays wine: bourgogne, cotes d'auxerre, les ouvrees (havent a clue which of those is the grape!), dry and green ]