The reasoning behind the madness!

The reasoning behind the madness!

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UPDATE! 25 Oct 2010

It is with great sadness that I write this update. On the 25th October 2010 my little sister sadly passed away at the age of 31. She had bravely battled MND for 11 years. She had never given up and had achieved to much even after developing MND, winning the Open University award for achievement to gaining a degree. She will be greatly missed and will for ever be in our thoughts. Love you sis :D

Well where to start, it was all originally done as I was carry to much weight and wanted to loose it. Which I am sure it most peoples story begins, however after loosing the weight I actually started to enjoy running outside. Joined some forums (BCTTT & Runners World), there inspiration and helpfullness has helped me a lot. Now I am also swimming and commuting a couple of times a week to work on my bike! Now since 2011 I accomplished more than I thought I ever would or could. From 5k runs to an Ironman in 2014 and The Outlaw in 2015. In 2016 I am going down a different route, I will be trying Ultra's as you can see from my events I have already entered 3 so far. Now I thought wait a minute I need to have one more motivation and that people is my sister Emma. Since the age of 20 she was very unfortunate and developed MND (Motor Neurone Disease), she is now 31 years of Age. Her health has deteriatated over the years and we nearly lost her last year. My mum had to give up her work and become a full time carer for my sister and my dad takes over the duties when he comes home from work. All the races I do will be in aid of my sister and all money raised will be donated to MND to help raise awareness and research in the disease. Thanks for all your help and enjoy my training blog,

Friday, 21 March 2014

The need to read and wear running tights!

I have had an average week of training last week (Wednesday and Thursday went a bit wrong),

Wednesday 19th March swim set

Warm Up:
300m F/C
200m Mixed stroke, alternating Backstroke and Breaststroke
2x100m (20seconds recovery) as build every 25m starting nice and slow.
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Main Set:
5x100m @CSS/100m (CSS/25m recovery)
300m @CSS/100m (CSS/25m recovery)
600m @CSS/100m (CSS/50m recovery)
900m @CSS/100m

On the 900m @CSS/100 it took me 19:07 which is about 1min slower. Did have to let people past a few times so that did contribute to at least 20 of those seconds. Also the recovery I thought it was css/50 for the 300m and css/100 for the 600 oops. So as you can see I was a bit slower but overall I am still happy with my overall progress.

Thursday 20th March Fartlek Session 

It looked easy enough was actually looking forward to this, I even had a route planned. I know me planning a route lol.

Warm up:5 minutes at Easy Intensity (L2)
10 minutes of Running Drills
5 minutes of strides
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Main Set:
7 minutes at Threshold Intensity (L4)
3 minutes at Interval Intensity (L5)
3x1 minute at Interval Intensity (L5),
1 minute at Easy Intensity (L2)

x3
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Cool Down:10 minutes of gentle joggingStretching and walking (L1)

Hmm the Fartlek went horribly wrong at the start of the last set. Calves went brick hard and could not loosen them. Not sure if it was because it was bitterly cold and I was only wearing shorts? Up until that point I was good. Stretched off, showered and put on compression.

The next day I could still feel the muscles sore, I did have an easy turbo to do but could not manage the prescribed 105rpm for any set time. Did the 1hr though :D.




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