Fatman to Ironman

Don`t you just love this weather 

Cake wrote (see)

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Are you sure you didn't mean his doggy is brilliant and his wife is gorgeous ? 

Can the cycling for a month. Concentrate on your swimming.

Are turbo trainers really necessary? I am wondering how to do interval sessions on the road and what about long rides when its snow or ice. Surely its not the same doing long rides on the mountain bike.

Turbo trainers are not essential and you can do intervals on the road but as you have highlighted once it becomes icy and dangerous that is when you might wish you had one ...

Long rides on a mountain bike or good, good for strength training and whilst you probably wouldnt want to do 5hrs + on one you shouldnt need to be doing that unless we have a very long and bad winter or you have a very early IM

You dont *have* to have a lot of things but they make life easier 


Had a lovely 2.5hrs out on the mountain bikes yesterday and they are so much fun

Thank. Expensive business keeping fit But Christmas is just round the corner

AliBear30 wrote (see)

Did my 20 mile run today, felt better than my 19 mile one although the wheels came off a tad at mile 18 by mile 19 I was ok again. Not sure how I'll manage the extra 6.2 on the day but I'll get there when I get there.
Did a 1hr sufferfest session in Friday night at the cycling academy it was my first ever time on a turbo and I had to ask how to change gears in my loaned modern bike! A tad embarrassing but apparently I have a very good peddling action well maybe perhaps they were just looking for something nice to say since I was so slow! Good news is i was non the worse for wear this morning so bring on the winter turbo sessions.

You are a machine! 1 hr sufferfest followed by a 20 mile run

Glad to hear the wheels went back on again during the run. On my looong runs I also seem to fall apart in the penultimate mile. Probably as the end is so near, but the last mile is still to come.

Once the mara is done you can really hammer the turbo. AIm to walk like John Wayne afterwards

morning

Ali - well done

I did my 20 mile run today, well, I have to say it was run/walk because I took far too many walk breaks, but it was still 20 miles and I now feel fairly confident. Only another 6 miles - Ali we can do it!

Going to get my OH to download some sufferfest and put them onto dvd for me - he says he has some software he can use to do that. I can pretend to be bad at those kind of things to get him to do it for me

Morning

Curry last night  so I did off road bike and shopping run today to make up for it

I've only just started to use my turbo and can see me using it a lot so I've just bought the Chrissy Wellington tracks from Audio Fuel (I bought the full set for variety!) I did look at Sufferfest but saw problems with actually watching them in the garage as the plug is on the back wall and the floor space is at the front of the garage next to the door for ventilation!

Meldy I'm possibly going to do a lot of off road (as in trail not masses of mud and hills!) on my old hybrid with 5 gears I'm guessing this is a good thing for me to build fitness and leg strength. I'm staying in the top (?) gear the most to make my legs work as I know Outlaw has a big hill (at about 20m I think) which is bigger than I have round here. Is this sensible or should I be using the road bike as much as I can whilst the weather is still OK?

No .. you should plan to use a slightly harder gear and aim to move up once you become accustomed to that, going straight in to big heavy gears will have you injured, as with everything its gradual increases
But essentially yes, get out on the road bike as much as you can and use the above process to build leg strength

Just fitted mudguards to the road bike.... ready for lots of long, cold, wet, winter rides....

We found a very good loop for hill reps yesterday with a cafe at the top ... I say 'found' I always knew it was there

Good running Ali & Maths.

Just 5 miles for me today.  Too slow for my liking but, ho-hum,  tomorrow is another day.

M...eldy wrote (see)

We found a very good loop for hill reps yesterday with a cafe at the top ... I say 'found' I always knew it was there

Well, I'm happy to sit in the cafe, drink coffee and eat cakes and count your reps for you

Too slow is better than too fast Nursey

Rafi, you will need to do them as well you know, you are not exempt !!

thanks!!