1 quarter of the way to the Ulgin triathlon.
The good news is my swimming has improved in leaps and bounds, and I am now only 10 seconds off my best ever time in the 250m.
The not so good news is the weird injury I got really interupted my cycling and running, and added a mood of dispondency to my training, just as I was beginning to feel 'The Ironman Cometh'.
So I wanted a landmark workout today, to put the bad weeks away, and to get tough on training.
Run: 1:35
Distance: 14 km (3 laps of Lake Park)
Heart Rate: 146 average/175 max (above 160: 5:07)
Kcal: 1686
Temperature: 30 C (average) 27 C min/31 C max
Did an easy first lap with Corneli, and felt very relaxed. I think the swimming has helped a lot with my cardiovascular fitness. Did 2 or 3 gallops through the park, pushing my heart rate all the way up to 175. I love it when they turn the park lights out and its pitch dark. You can just make out the moony white lines creaming across the gloomy path as you float forwards.
Message to Myself:
You know, if you're going to go to the trouble of training, you might as well go to some trouble. I've done a few 30 minute and 1 hour runs, and I haven't seen that it is having much of an effect. I simply have to acknowledge that the energy I am consuming is not being exceeded by exercise. Thus the amount of exercise needs to be high, higher than seems reasonable. Once there is an effect, then that's the appropriate level of output. It seems pointless to me to go out there and exercise over and over with no results. Make each one count, and make sure, before too much time goes by, that you're getting results.
Will go swimming tomorrow.
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