hmmm...

Well I didn't run this morning thinking it would be better to rest and run this afternoon instead, but when I got to this afternoon I found a tightness in the side of my left knee. Not happy. So I sat it out today and I'll probably go for a swim tomorrow morning and then see how I feel in the afternoon...

It's moderately suspicious because it's similiar to the feeling I got middle of last year after Warwick that I couldn't shake for two months...

Packed on the deep heat and been stretching... will see what happens in the moro!

Long bunch ride

I took my first long bunch ride out to Redcliffe this morning. It was a lot faster than I normally do that sort of distance (120km) in (avg speed 30km/hr - I normally do 25km/hr). But it felt great. Although the bunch was very messy at times and I nearly got dropped at the halfway point, I managed to stick on and when we got back to Brisbane I was riding at about fourth wheel (Very cool considering the pack was about 150 bikes!).

As for it's usefulness in regards to triathlon training... well it's not fantastic, but I do learn a lot more about the effects of air flow etc, and it's a lot more interesting too... I think when I get into it I'll use that program I posted yesterday and on the weekends where I'm doing the long rides that incorporate the swim I'll ride to Redcliffe with the bunch, swim and then ride back alone...

Tomorrow morning I'm going to run about 23/24 kms.

Oh, and the skins are feeling fantastic Don. I'm starting to wonder how we used to recover without them!

Building a base... a solid one!

It's been a massive fortnight but I've done over 300km on the bike, two 1/2M distance runs, a smattering of hill runs and a couple of swims. I'm finally developing a routine I'm really happy with.

I've done a few bunch rides as well as some long solo rides and yesterday (Australia day) I did a really good hilly bunch ride to Mt Nebo where I spent some time on the front of a pack for the first time and learnt a LOT about aero position and drafting (as well as how to control the bike on some serious downhills!)

I've also finally developed a program which I think is going to work quite well...

I've changed to a fortnightly program so I can mix it up a bit more, switch between a specific hills and specific speed session (not to say that other runs don't include these of course, merely just that they are the sole focus in those two sessions...) and vary my weekend routine to incorporate BRRC every second fortnight...

Every second Fri the brick set will be a spin on the trainer and then a run...

The only problem is no rest days but one of each of the swims is just freestyle (not squad) and I'm sure I'm not going to keep to every session so I will get some rest...

Tomorrow is my first trip to Redcliffe (60km away) and it'll be the place every second saturday where I'll do a ride swim ride brick set...

Keepin' it up

Thanks to my new and incredibly cool long skins my legs were feeling fantastic on New Years Day despite the final shenanigans of 2006 so I went for a cruisy but undulating watchless run around kenmore before dinner. All up it must have been about an hour and it felt really good.

I took a total rest day on Tuesday because I'd been pushing pretty hard for the last few days.

Wednesday I did a forty minute spin session on the wind trainer because the group ride was rained out and I don't trust my group skills in the wet just yet...

Thursday and Friday were going to be big days but I ended up having to make four trips to the airport for different groups of people and just ran out of time!

No, problem, I'm going for a group run up Cootha tomorrow morning...

I start a new job on Monday (much excitement) which will be my first nine to five so I'm going to draft a new program then which hopefully contribute to a bit more consistency.