Enduroman 1st - 10th June 2012

A little lurker popping in....  Seren you're storming and it's great reading everyone's training.  A bad back is bad luck Barly. I am having a few issues with mine at the moment and I know a  long bike ride makes it worse. 

Don't know you purpletrilady but as Seren wisely says, it says a lot that you are disappointed with 105 miles.

off for a short swim in the river.........after some shopping.just going to try out my new wetsuit....no big swim today

Thanks madge........its a bit of a learning club.but trying to listen to my body......hence no running at all

I binned the river swim.........it was raining and felt that i had better things to do on a bank holiday than swim whilst my OH walked in the rain watching........

my taper will start after the chiltern 100 and in true Seren style I will probably do nothing at all for those two weeks..........taper for me means stop totally........the final wek will be in the caravan and it will be great for once to holiday without having to get up early to fit in a ride or a run

130 miles today - I am a lot happier

I would have liked to do a 150 but given the way I felt on Saturaday I am really pleased with 130..

Taper starts now for me, but a long slow reduction in training.

Thanks again for the support - it really help.

Now then....where is Barley ????

235 miles in a weekend .....brillaint stuff 

Fantastic training Purple, 235 miles in 3 days, that suggests to me that when youre fully tapered youll not have to worry about the bike distance on the day.  Big well done.

I havnt trained for a week but today I got the train to Berhamstead, followed the canal back to MK, about 26 miles all together and took me 6.5 hours.  I only managed to run/walk the first 3 hours, the rest was nearly all walk as I didnt seen to have the energy (thinking virtually no breakfast or fueliing was the reason).

All in all im really happy with it, really good time on my feet and though my legs were shot when I got home theyre already feeling a lot better so with an hour or two's rest it seems I could be good to go again.

All depends how my back responds tomorrow and the next few days, last weekends marathon didnt do it a lot of good.

My taper also starts after Chiltern 100, that said im still a bit hesitant about cycling.

Some good training going on here. 

Purpletrilady - you say your legs "went" on the first ride. Just wondering if you fuelled better for the second ride, hence got round OK and you actually ran out of gas on the first one due to nutrition?

Barley - same thing... what would you do differently regards fuelling for a long training session?

Thanks for the comments on fueling,

Despite what it would seem, I do know how to fuel for my sessions (if anything ive a tendancy to over fuel), sometimes I just dont bother and look at it as a tough session to push my body & mind, partly to simulate the mental side further into a race, e.g. feeling how I would during the AT double marathon.

I fueled well for the marathon the week before and was full of beans at the end.

Great stuff happening up above this message.

Did 14.3 mile run on Monday, 2.2 mile swim (3600m) yesterday and 63 mile on this bike this morning. Quite happy with that for this week. Back to work tomorrow unfortunately.

235 miles Purple, top form. Did you do your 3 or 4 long days Dave?

I did what I could over the bank holiday.

Wallpapered the hallway. Painted the kitchen. And bathroom.

2k swim / 70 mile bike sat (03:36) 19.7 avg

2K swim / 50 mile bike Sun (02:24) - 20.3 avg

2K swim / 100 mile bike (05:20) / 16 mile run @8:35miling Monday. I have found a run course with 1 mile loops in a local park that has the same terrain and slightly more climb per mile which I have been using extensively over winter. 

6 Mile run and a 3K OW swim yesterday.

Bike today (to/from work)

Chilli great work again........

dave...i am so envious of your bike speed...i can only get near those speeds downhill with the wind behind me...

i have met again with the neurologist and although he doesn't know whats wrong he has ruled out a few nasties........so will now have a heart and neck scan as the next set of tests......he has given me the go ahead for the double which i was a bit worried about.......he is a runnwer and hockey player and so unlike some doctors does not try and blame every problem on your training...one of the locum GP's I saw in my surgery just put it down to the cycling or the swimming even though i was doing very lttle at the time......and dismissed me.......

Chilli - your storming the training

Dave - I can only dream of being able to cycle like that!

Seren - good news 

I'm still suffering with tiredness and exhaustion. I've also put on 6lbs over the last 4 weeks, basically I think my body is shot to bits at the moment. I've given up caffeine, unhealthy carbs, gluten, I'm taking a shed load of supplements and trying to get as much rest as I can.

Ironically I feel more unhealthy now than I have for years. However I'm confident that I can get it sorted iver the next four weeks.

its your body telling you its taper time.........i haven't done anything since sunday and have also put on weight........but i will go with what my body wants at the moment

Schmunkee - The List Fairy wrote (see)

A MaccaD breakfast does not constitute ideal per-race nutrition, Barley. But that said, you were full of beans and eager to make up for the five hours you had spent with no-one to talk to

What fun that must have been !!!


PTL (and the rest of you) take good care of yourselves at this stage, plenty of protein will help the recovery

It wasn't, Melds.  It really wasn't.

waiting in for deliveries etc so no training again...but as its pouring down outside i have no desire to get on the bike anyway........

seren nos wrote (see)

waiting in for deliveries etc so no training again...but as its pouring down outside i have no desire to get on the bike anyway........

Having spent four hours of my 100 miler on Monday in the rain I'd say that's a top decision! 

i have cycled enough in the rain..i believe i need to do some warm weather training just incase............i would love to go for a week in the sun right now.instead i will put my electric blanket on and have a nap and dream........