Getting nowhere fast

Yesterday rest day

Today 90 mins on cross trainer, excessively tedious but necessary training as it keeps the intensity up, av bpm 143 max 158

Lion costume has arrived.

Mixing it up

Yesterday 11 mile ride very slow pace, 1 hour ten minutes, but fun

Today mixed up run 4.5 miles 2 miles x country 2.5 miles road, time 46.03 includes chasing dog, finding dog, changing dog, gates, puddles and mud, cals 454 av bpm 139 max 176

Extreme Gardening

 Spinning 1 hour 400 cals av bpm 141 max 188

 Then 2.5 hours extreme gardening, or clearing the site for the kennel block

Chamber of horror

last 2 days rest days, well not quite, did 45 mins on x trainer 2 days ago.

Today extreme spin class, mental. 1 hour 45 mins av bpm 134 max 163 cals 873 with new spin instructor, the girlie who gurns and squeals.

50 mins on x trainer.

I told my colleagues at work my plan to run Knighton to Kington in  lion pantomime costume to raise money for children in need and they nearly died laughing. Supportive bunch!

Soggy foot

Soggy foot was the name given to a nasty x country run I used to have to do as part of an insane training course in 1982 called the "External Leadership Course". That run was the Sahara Desert compared to yesterdays circuit of the Bonsai Mountain that took 21.13 minutes.

Today I chickened out and did 40 mins in the dry on the cross trainer.

Bimbling along

Overslept due to rugrat MkII so missed spin class.
Went for a bimble.
Bimble.
 Slang.
To wander about with no real purpose.
 So yesterdays PB route 2 mile x country at toddler speed.
1.5 hours not including playing in the river.

New PB

2 mile x country in the rain with two get in the way Berners, 5 stiles and gates one chat to dog walker 19 mins 39 seconds av bpm 143 max 171 bpm. New PB.

Cool running

4 mile cross country 41 mins 2 seconds includes 12 gates and stiles plus time taken to change over from Rocky and Reba to just Spotty. 410 cals (is that all!) av hr 142 max hr 168

Same again

Better weather, faster ride, 10 miles sub 28 minutes. Sunny day!

SAME AGAIN

Wet weather cycling gear means arrival at office warm and dry even though cats and dogs are being thrown at me on the way.

10 miles 31.08 minutes. Rain heavy to moderate.

Red Kite Riders

First meeting today, 15 miles in the rain. Good times. Aldi sold me some winter riding gear and after doing 23 miles (yes the ride was 15 but I did more) I was on the warm side of damp in places and dry in most. Over shoes are great. Bargain at a fiver! One rider hadnt been on her bike for 20 years, two gym rats and the reat of us happy amateurs, next meeting 27 10 13 and there should be more than 6 that day, weather permitting!

Ride stats to follow, but there was a mighty big hill at the start, this happens if you live on the floor of a valley!

Ran out

Time ran away with me today so no training.

Day off

Rest day

5 mins stretching while micro wave rice cooked at office.

Extreme spin

2.5 mile walk slow slow time with apprentice smallholder.

Extreme spin class 1.5 hours 799 cals av bpm 128 max bpm 159

Back on track

5 mile bike ride there and 5 mile back again, 1 mile messing around in between

2 mile run, this was x country and would have been a PB of under 20mins except Reba (BMD) decided to assert herself over the local collie Jess. Wasted at least 10 seconds trying to get bad dog through farm gate. Good run in rain 20 mins 9 seconds.

24 mins on x trainer interval training

Back again

Once again I have been slack at keeping a log of training done, I cannot offer any excuse other than laziness.

I have done stacks of training, but in all honesty it was probably a good thing that I did not do the Knighton Sportive this weekend as I would have felt it.

So without a real target to train for, other than the B3P2P 2014 its been a bit slack but I have started running again.

Yesterday 2x 5 mile bike rided, pretty fast 27 mins and then a 2 mile cross country run last half mile with a 10 kg load (cheers postie)

Today

2x 5 mile bike rides

Planned challenge for 2013

Mountain Marathon 21 December 2013 Longest Run on the Shortest Day just for shits and giggles.

In only 7 days!

 MkII rug rat has been with us

 for a whole seven days.

He marked 10.23 am with a suitable reminder to his servants that they should be doing something that involved him.