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Training Week 14th - 20th February

Posted by Tom Room on Thursday, February 24, 2011, In : Training Week 2011

The first hard week in a 3 week block;

Monday

am - 1hr aerobic run
am - aerobic swim set, though I am swimming a little rubbish so it turned out to be a little harder than it shoudl have been;
400 off 6mins; 4x100 off 1:30
300 off 4:30; 3x100 off 1:25
200 off 3:00, 2x100 off 1:20 (went a little wrong around here)
2x100 off ~~1:20,~~ 1:30; 200 off 3:00
3x100 off 1:25, 300 of 4:30
4x100 off 1:30, 400 off 6mins
Total 5.2km

Tuesday

am - 4.4km Strength Set
pm - 4x10min hill rep loop with uni club - Steady along th...

Training Week 17th - 23rd January

Posted by Tom Room on Sunday, January 23, 2011, In : Training Week 2011

Recovery Week

It's been a very busy week work rise and I have been organising the Bath Run Series which has had it's last event on Sunday which was a great success. Consequently I have been too busy/tired to do the training I had planned. But in recovery weeks especially it is more important to actual recover somewhat than just becoming progressively more tired. Especially as I am going to Lanzarote on Tuesday for 11 days to get some high quality training in, it didn't make sense to go there t...
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Training Week 9th - 16th January

Posted by Tom Room on Tuesday, January 18, 2011, In : Training Week 2011

Another good volume week this week. I was particularly knackered Wednesday night after two 6 hour days but after a lighter day Thursday I was able to finish the week off well on Friday/

Sunday

3hrs 15min ride on powercranks......double puncture = long walk home :-(
45min run - had meant to be a brick session but I'm not sure you can count it was an hour walk in the middle, and dinner.

Monday

6km swim 8x600 alt swim, pull + 30secs
1hr 45min run
2hrs on powercranks, one outside, one on the rollers

Tue...
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Training Week 2nd - 8th January 2011

Posted by Tom Room on Saturday, January 8, 2011, In : Training Week 2011

After having a somewhat longer end of season break due to a mystery illness and jamming my foot down a rabbit hole, my build up in winter training has been progressive, yet very steady. This last week I was able to enjoy a good week of high volume base endurance work;

Sunday

1hr 50min run (on my 2hr loop which apparently needs renaming) before breakfast
1hr 15min ride on powercranks

Monday

3hr ride on powercranks
3hr hike
1hr run

Tuesday

5.5km swim, aerobic mixed strokes
1hr 30min ride on powercranks ...
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