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Another weekly update...

Monday – Rest

Tuesday – Gym and track running with Craven Energy...

Goth through entire gym workout in the morning... Must say it was quite a struggle warming up with a walk on the treadmill... 10 minutes was an eternity...

Evening track with Craven Energy session was quite a challenge... All I can say is that it was very wet and windy... But with effort I prevailed... Did a pyramid set... 2000m jog warm up... Some dynamic stretching exercises... Then the following sets... 800m, 1200m, 1600m, 1200m, 800m...The aim being to hit consistent times for each lap within each set... All five sets punctuated with a 400m jog recovery... 800m warm down... Total distance about 10.2km... Nice to be back on the track after the snow... Lets hope next week it isn't as wet and windy...

Wednesday - Cycle and Swim

Cycled 40 km in very very wet and windy conditions... Must say it was very hard work.. Set off from Skipton and did a loop via Cracoe, Linton, Burnsall, Appletreewick, Bolton Abbey, Halton East, Embsay then back to Skipton...

Evening: I did my a swim session... Got through my sets nicely... Quite uneventful but good fun nevertheless... Total distance 1.8 km...

Thursday – Gym and running with Keighley AC

Gym in the morning... Slack again here.... 10 minute treadmill warmup was as hard as ever... Just did my legs... The main priority... Must say the gym work does help a lot despite the fact it is indoors and I'm not very keen on it at all...

Did an easy 8 km run in the evening with Keighley AC... Just a steady pace from Keighley with a magical mystery tour around Riddlesden... Nice and relaxing... Wasn't raining or windy and no snow to be seen at all... So quite pleasant...

Friday – Cycle and swim

Got out on the bike early this morning for a brisk return 50km cycle from Skipton to Kettlewell passing through the villages of Cracoe and Threshfield along the way... Some longish sunny patches and no wind or rain to contend with so it was a brilliant cycle... Feeling great...

Evening so its time for a swim... Felt quite tired but managed to get through my sets quite okay... The schedule included 2 sets of 700m of which I got through okay despite the tiredness... Total distance 1.8km...

Saturday – Gym and Run

Ran about 4km to the gym... Did my workout.... Ran 4km back... Pretty straightforward I guess... Legs felt tired and sore so I guess that was more than enough today...

Sunday – Cycle and Swim

Cycle was excellent... Very cold, a bit windy but no rain... Cycled 60km from Skipton to Colne and back via Steeton, Addingham and Bolton Abbey... Had a fabulous bit when tearing downhill from Cowling to Glusburn with the wind at my back... Absolutely flying down... Felt that if I had gone any faster I'd be testing Albert's theory of relativity... I was breaking the speed of sound though... Could here all these booms around me (sonic I guess)... Was it loud wind gusts though???

Must say there is heaps of mathematics and physics in all this training... No doubt as I get into it the training more I'll elaborate on the numeracy/physics aspects of it all... Now that will be interesting...

As for the swim I got through my planned 2.4km session nicely despite feeling quite weary... One part of the session was a straight 1000m... Did it... Most pleased...

Anyway that is it for this week... Tomorrow is a rest day then it is back to it all on Tuesday... Can't wait!!!!!