I don't know about everyone else but I tend to struggle with consistency. I'll be superman one day and lying on the couch for the next 4 days then go up and do another day of 3-4 hours training. So this year it's all about getting in regularly and trying to at least do 1 hour a day.
I don't want to sound like George hook but to quote the man "I think i've fallen in love with a piece of technology" George was talking about a sky remote control i'm banging on about trainnerroad.com again. Now I can't prove the results of trainner road just yet as i've only been using it consistently for about 5 weeks. I did however go out for a spin with the notorious Liam Dillon and I know he's been doing a good bit of training so when I got the call to go for a spin with him I assumed Fernando Feuntes his coach had decided Liam needed a bit of a confidence boost going into the festive season. In fairness I have only been on the road 3 times since last May so he probabaly thought it was a dead cert he'd take me down. I kept the normalised power at around 200 watts and felt really comfortable the whole way around. I haven't been on the bike for long spells haven't really cycled over an hour so expected to fall apart at some point but it never happened, so I was pretty chuffed about that. I realise that I do need to do at least one long spin a week but i'm going to stick with Trainnerroad.com (no not on commission yet!!) for my Ironman lanza training during the week.
Swimming wise i've been trying to at least get two sessions done a week. I've sort of ditched my Ironman training program from swim smooth.com not because it wasn't working but I have to say I find swimming in a group so much easier. I don't dread the session I go in and work out hard for 45mins- hour there's a guy in lane called Kevin. He's pushing me on a good bit trying to stay ahead of him and I feel this is of more benefit than going in on my own and pushing against a clock. Unlike last year I have no idea what times i'm hitting for my 100's and I don't think I'm too bothered. I'd like to do a 200 and 400 test prob at christmas week just to see if i'm improving. I'm going to try and test myself towards the end of every month going forward at the three disciplines to gauge improvement. I retested my FTP about 3 weeks ago and moved from 207 on computrainer to 239. However i'm really struggling with all my sets at 239 so I know there is no point re testing until i'm comfortable doing the sessions.
Running is going ok. The plan is Kilcoole track session on Monday a fast run over 8k during the week and then a long run of over 20k towards the end of the week. So far I've missed one of those sessions and unfortunatley it's usually the long run. I find with two young kids and a wife you can't justify to yourself been out for longer than a couple of hours. Don't get to see enough of the wife and Kids as is without adding training into the mix. Overall November was a good week training wise if I can hold the same for December i'll be heading into January a happy man.
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