Fink for outlaw 2013

so you do the one loop..then the second loop..then back and do the first loop again...........haven't done the course before...............

I did panic about the hill until I realsied its in feet not metres

Well that was fun. 1Hr run with the 5 * 1min sprints starting at 10 mins. That meant 3rd sprint was up hill and I though I was going to puke up my heart. However survived it and feel rather proud of myself now. Still appallingly slow but that should improve with time and practise.
It took me back to when I was first starting to run on the C25K program, it was just as hard to sprint 60 seconds as it was when I first had to run for 60 seconds. Which has reminded me I never want to go back and start over ever, so much hard work required to get going.

Definitely a confidence boost and good start to the day.

Matt

When the swim is all going wrong, just try swimming easy -

ie dont push the pace, just slow down and try and get the technique back.
When mine goes to crap I focus back on just being streamlined again, ie head tucked into shoulder behind the lead arm...
Then add back in the body roll....
Then add back in the catch.......

thien if its all together again start trying to go fast again.

Its amazing how it comes together again whenh you slow down a bit....

if its still rubbish, just do some drills for the session...???

britrisky.there have been some discussion about pullbuoys.........the one argument tells you not to get dependant on them or it stops you learning how to hold yourself in the water properly without one.just use them for some arm drills.......

then one of the top coaches stated that he gets all his pros to use them all the time as it replicates the wetsuit and they always race in a wetsuit..

I am a crap swimmer and the only way i could move up from 2 lengths was with a pullbuoy...........i do all my swimming with a pullbuoy.........

which means i am getting better in the openwater swims...............but if i ever go to a race and they officially call it a non wetsuit swim i am going to be up the creak without a paddle................and I can never enter shorter swimming pool passed tri.....

(apart from one in May that i have been desperate to do and i will have to breast stroke/walk/ cheat my way through the swim)

Just booked hotels for the full and half. All getting a bit more real

sorry stanners i can't advise on swimming......I'm just keeping with 2 one hour sessiosn of zombie swimming .the same as base but hoping to slowly increase the distance

I'm no help either. Just sticking to 2 zombie sessions.

Have actually just added up my swim sessions for the first 10 weeks. They added up to.....10 which appears to be lesss than 2 a week

Got a nice 3:30 bike ride in. 53 miles on a recce of the motion in mercia route.
Blimey its cold out there. Think to get some better tights, gloves and work out how to keeep my feet a bit warmer. I was thinking at one point that I could sell it as a cheap sex change operation

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Got a nice 3:30 bike ride in. 53 miles on a recce of the motion in mercia route.
Blimey its cold out there. Think to get some better tights, gloves and work out how to keeep my feet a bit warmer. I was thinking at one point that I could sell it as a cheap sex change operation

Cold ... so fecking cold ... don't think I've ever enjoyed a bike ride less!

arrrrggggghhhhh pool rage tonight and annoyed at myself for getting so fecked off I got out after 1m

Stupid pair of larger women swimming 6ft apart, chatting, heads up and un moving crashed into me (deliberatly a couple of times) about 5 times in 40min.

Having a bad week. Last week of term and I am exhausted, run down and desperate for my 2wks off.

Roll on 3:30 tomorrow

Failed to do run this morning giving the excuse that it was freezing cold and there was icy roads and that's not good for speedwork. I plan to now do this tonight on trail in daylight

Two weeks off now ... work in an academy so this is our end of term. 2 blissfull weeks of daylight training, swimming when the pool is hardly in use and actually on the roads with the bike. Can't wait.

Oh and no 4:40 am alarm calls

hope the holiday weeks are what you need EP.....

week 11 on fink and he has added a couple more brick sessions for me..one before the long run and one after the long bike.....

today was freezing again but i got out on the bike and did my 30 mins outside before a quick change and off for my 12 and a bit miles.found the flatest route around here and managed to keep my HR below 140 for most of the route.............

so pleased.off for a bike fitting tomorrow on my brand new summer bike 

10 miles run done. It's cold out there

I'm finding brick sessions hard to fit in so from Sunday I'll do the one before the run and the one after the bike but that will have to be it for now.

Ooh shiny new bike. I'd like one but no matter what angle I come from I can't justify it

i bought this one in december on the cycle to work scheme........it hasn't even got any pedals on yet,...waiting for the fitting and the spring to come......its the same as my old one but they have changed the gears a little bit..........I'v e had my old planet x 2 1/2 years and have used it as a winter and summer bike..........last year i did a fair few miles training for the double so I think i need a new one.

Just to clarify that the Fink plan only has 2 brick sessions, the bike and the long run are separate sessions if you are sticking religiously to Fink.

Are you going over to Bike Science in Bristol Seren? He did a great job on my fitting.