My car spends more time in the garage than on the road. When I bought my own slice of Germanic engineering I assumed it would be reliable, cost effective and good to drive. It's good to drive, unreliable and expensive but yet I love it.....odd really.
Since the car was indisposed, I had to run to get my mechanical steed after it had been poked, tested and given a clean bill of health. The run was hot and sticky and I arrived at the garage up to temperature.
Once I made it home it was time to bike through the Alps, spin down the Cols and put in a serious tempo ride through a couple of market French towns. Sadly I hadn't been whisked over to France but was stuck in my home gym on my spin bike watching a podcast. I love it. It was pretty hot and soon the clothes were discarded around the room - I made a rare sight when moonwalker walked in and caught me spinning in my state of undress! The naked spinner was born (well almost naked - one must protect the parts that could rub or chafe!)
So not a bad session overall with a 2 mile run and a full hour on the spin bike.
Another day closer to the Epic Caper and another day of training done. Life is good!
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Monday, 29 June 2009
In the land of the midnight sun.....
Work has taken me oop north - so far north I'm just about as far as you can go in mainland UK.
I drove up this morning passing many of the sights we passed on our last epic trip form Lands End to John O Groats non stop. The last outing was in September and rightfully has a blog of it's own. Six of us took on the challenge to cycle non stop from Lands End to JoG. The team included wingman, the fit one, duracell, Junior down from Aberdeenshire, another friend from Dunfermline and of course the bigman.
We were split into 2's and rode 4 hours on at a time. It was a cracking trip completed in 62 hours. The odd thing was today's drive brought back a load of great memories. I remembered the exact spot the bigman got the first and only puncture of the trip and the memorable climb up Berrydale Braes, the last really big one of the journey. It was a fab time (except for the sleep deprivation and mixed food!).
On arrival it was straight into a meeting which lasted 6 hours - I felt remarkably fresh and decided to go out for a wee run. A mini heatwave has hit Thurso and at 7pm when I went out running the temperature was still over 20 deg. I plodded out of town and headed up the hill. I felt good running, as I've mentioned it probably is my first love and the miles passed easily.
The run in itself was unremarkable other than the stunning beauty and joy that you get running in isolation on roads where no cars seem to exist. It was fab.
Tomorrow's another full day but if I get a chance I might run again - I brought plenty of kit!
So I lie in on my bed watching the sun slip down out of the window - I've always wanted to come this far north at this time of the year. It's been worth it!
PS It's dark at Wimbledon!
I drove up this morning passing many of the sights we passed on our last epic trip form Lands End to John O Groats non stop. The last outing was in September and rightfully has a blog of it's own. Six of us took on the challenge to cycle non stop from Lands End to JoG. The team included wingman, the fit one, duracell, Junior down from Aberdeenshire, another friend from Dunfermline and of course the bigman.
We were split into 2's and rode 4 hours on at a time. It was a cracking trip completed in 62 hours. The odd thing was today's drive brought back a load of great memories. I remembered the exact spot the bigman got the first and only puncture of the trip and the memorable climb up Berrydale Braes, the last really big one of the journey. It was a fab time (except for the sleep deprivation and mixed food!).
On arrival it was straight into a meeting which lasted 6 hours - I felt remarkably fresh and decided to go out for a wee run. A mini heatwave has hit Thurso and at 7pm when I went out running the temperature was still over 20 deg. I plodded out of town and headed up the hill. I felt good running, as I've mentioned it probably is my first love and the miles passed easily.
The run in itself was unremarkable other than the stunning beauty and joy that you get running in isolation on roads where no cars seem to exist. It was fab.
Tomorrow's another full day but if I get a chance I might run again - I brought plenty of kit!
So I lie in on my bed watching the sun slip down out of the window - I've always wanted to come this far north at this time of the year. It's been worth it!
PS It's dark at Wimbledon!
Sunday, 28 June 2009
Spinning on the inside.....
Another dreich day in Fife. As the rest of the UK basks in the heatwave we Fifers befitted from a cool easterly. Great for training, apart from the wind but not the scorcher that everyone else is having.
After a day running around I thought I'd take the opportunity to try out the spin bike. So I plugged in the iPod into the speakers and took on the sufferfest Climbing set - it's a fantastic workout. When I was training for IMNZ I would go to Bannatynes, who kindly let me use their spin bikes, and spin for sometimes up to 4 hours at a time. If you can imagine the torture of spinning for 4 hours it certainly built up the resolve for the 6 hour plus bike that is the middle part of the ironman triathlon.
The sufferfest works on a warm up, sprint set, tempo, then 2 big climbs, another sprint, tempo and then cool down. It's broken up with fab music that keeps you pumping along pushing a big resistance up the hills. I think that spinning is excellent for building strength.
So I thrashed away for an hour and then jumped on the treadmill for 15 minutes to cool down.
I got some information through this week about nutrition and it's the area I always let myself down.....I enjoy my food far too much and have a particularly sweet tooth so if I wasn't training as much I'd be back at 17 stone!
After a day running around I thought I'd take the opportunity to try out the spin bike. So I plugged in the iPod into the speakers and took on the sufferfest Climbing set - it's a fantastic workout. When I was training for IMNZ I would go to Bannatynes, who kindly let me use their spin bikes, and spin for sometimes up to 4 hours at a time. If you can imagine the torture of spinning for 4 hours it certainly built up the resolve for the 6 hour plus bike that is the middle part of the ironman triathlon.
The sufferfest works on a warm up, sprint set, tempo, then 2 big climbs, another sprint, tempo and then cool down. It's broken up with fab music that keeps you pumping along pushing a big resistance up the hills. I think that spinning is excellent for building strength.
So I thrashed away for an hour and then jumped on the treadmill for 15 minutes to cool down.
I got some information through this week about nutrition and it's the area I always let myself down.....I enjoy my food far too much and have a particularly sweet tooth so if I wasn't training as much I'd be back at 17 stone!
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