Week 14 Here comes the Sun

Running Partner Molly with IM Brazil T-Shirt after getting wet

Ironman is all about preparation and practice and building systems to compete in the distance. It hasn't been the ideal preparation but I am feeling a lot better than a few weeks ago.Despite the illnesses , injury and just fatigue I have strung together more than a week of training  .I have on the positive side dropped a massive 8 kgs and trending down. I have and feel stronger on the bike and run. Not back to 2011and 2010 days but better. The swim is weak but I will just have to manage. the sun is out and it is a lot better training in the heat.

Monday Only a short easy run of 7km with Molly the dog .She did jump into the canal near the bush and had to have a bath and hence the IM Brazil T shirt after her bath.

Tuesday . no bike ride just had a bit of a cold and decided to run at lunch and another 7km with alternate threshold pace with medium pace .It was warm in the gym so I sweated buckets . In the evening a great cross fit session. 2 rounds of exercises that got the blood pumping. Did an hour .

No one did Walsh and opted for the alternative. I wonder why?

Wednesday: Great swim session in the morning . I did a 400m warm up and then we did 50free, 50 free, 50 back and 50 free and 50 breast x 2 and then  50 sculling and 50 free x 3 .The main set was 200m fast , 100m medium and 50 fast and 50 threshold x 2 and then we did 2 sprints of 50m and a cool down of 100m for a total of 2.5km.

At lunch I ran on the thread mill in the gym for 9.5km with 1km threshold efforts at 5min per km for 5 km and the rest at a lesser pace . As it was a warm day outside , even in the gym I sweated a fair bit. In the evening I did a wind trainer session for 50 minutes with 2 x 10minutes at threshold and the rest sub threshold for 30km and then ran with Molly for 5.5 km easy.

Thursday .Another day where I did not ride in the morning and opted to rest. I did do a thread mill session of 6km at lunch with just a build to threshold at 5min per km and then back to 6min per km . In the evening rode to cross fit and did about a 45 minute session. I was feeling tired and rode home after the session.

Friday . Did get up early and rode to swim training . Ross and his Yoda , David Simon were there. David will be giving a talk tomorrow to the Club on  

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Swim session was the hardest I have done in a while . I had a 500m warm up and then 3 x 700m at mainly thres hol with the middle 700 at medium building to threshold and the last at threshold with the last 300 fast. Cool down was a 100m easy swim . total 2.7km .

At lunch time I ran an easy 5km on the thread mill with a build to threshold for 1km and then slowing down to a 10kph pace . In the evening an easy 5km run with Molly .

Saturday .Up relatively early  and out before 6am to the city and then the river loop with Exceed and then the Shelley loop and back into the city. I got dropped at Cottesloe , but I managed to keep a hard pace and jump on cycling groups riding round . I then towed a new club member Emma around Shelley and back into the city .Had coffee with the group before heading home the long way for a 95 km ride and ran with Molly off the bike for 4kms very easy .

Then a quick shower and food shopping before heading for the talk by David Simon. It was then a rush to cross fit. I was tired and thankfully it wasn't a very tough session , just a hard session .

Saturday's Cross Fit Session..THE NINE

Cottesloe On Sunday ...beach was closed 2 days earlier after a tiger shark was spotted 30 m from the beach?

Sunday; A swim at Cottesloe with Les at 7.30am . It was again a calm sea. Did about 1.7km and in the afternoon did a wind-trainer session for 50minutes.

Run: 49 km or 5 hrs
Bike : 200km or 7.2hrs
Swim: 2.5  hrs or  7km
cross fit :  2.8 hrs
Molly did a full half marathon in running this week 
Total:17.5 hrs