IM Germany training thread

oxymoron

I'll get the ball rolling....

This weeks training.

Swim 10 minutes in lake zurich (although this was cos I needed a p1ss and couldnt be bothered to find a toilet.
Bike 20 minutes
Run zilch

Drinking lager, eating curry and vomitting over myself 10 hours

All in all, a nicely balanced week.

debbo

Oxy - phew, I was beginning to think my training was lacking, but now I see I've been doing far too much and will back off and start drinking much more....

oxymoron

yes in order to be a proper pirate you need to be quite fat. Think travelling darts team rather then honed athletes.

debbo

I'm feeling more confident all the time!

oxymoron

so yeah, more food and beer is probably in order if youve been training too much.

debbo

I've got 4 weeks in spain starting on monday - I should be able to manage that without too much effort.

Bouncing Barlist

Is this a blatent attempt to start a long thread lol.

No training for me, 1st will be on Monday.

candy ollier

i saw you smoking a fag near tower bridge. doesn't that count as training?

Bouncing Barlist

They already have the wrong idea, you dont know the half of it lol.....

M...eldy

ok guys - I have an injury at the moment and have been allowed to use my static bike.

I did an hour on this today and kept at 70rpm comfortably for and hour and covered 16.65 miles, I needed some form of a bench mark I spose, how was this???
good, bad, indifferent!!!

candy ollier

don't believe the mileage, static bikes tell porkies

try to get a much faster cadence, around 95-100 rpm.

try to make sure that you apply pressure evenly right round the pedal stroke, eg don't just push down. doing a few minutes one-legged drill on each side can help with this.

other than that, great.

M...eldy

yeah I know Candy - just had to have somewhere to start!!!! and I am limited as to what I can do at the mo ...

I am good at one legged things :-)

Unknown

D'you think I could do it..?

Seriously..?

I can swim. I can bike. I can run.

I haven't run a marathon. I haven't biked 112m. I haven't swum more than a 2m stretch a day a few years ago. BUT, I did kick cancer's arse and I DID used to cycle to work every day (40m there and back)


Well..?

candy ollier

yes if you really want to, and you put the training in. see the race reports from jellybabe (and others)

oxymoron

I think we estalished that if your prepared to put the training in then anyone can do it. So yeah why not?

oxymoron

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debbo

Cath - you can do it!

Unknown

OMG.

Hm.

All I need now is someone to talk me into it.


So... this is the girl who... academically skips Masters to go to PhD

So... why should this be different..?

Right..?

Skip the swimming and marafun to go straight to Ironman..?

OMG.


(thinking)

Unknown

debbo - stoppit - whether I can do it is NOT the issue. It's whether I WILL do it. I have no doubt I CAN do it. If this lot can, I can

;o)

debbo

Why not. I'm going to do it and I've never cycled more than 60 miles in one go (with stops for lunch and tea and biscuits) or swum more than 100 lengths in one go. I have done 2 marathons, but both painfully slowly.

I'm sure one of this year's IM had never run more than 15 or 16 miles - Lindi maybe??

Unknown

Andy - can you email me. I need to really THINK about this seriously - cash, training etc. I'd LIKE to do it. But I need to see what I realistically need to do.

debbo

Cath - have you got time for the training. I do coz I'm being sacked in October!! A good sign I think, shame I'll have no money though....

Unknown

Debbo - I work flexi time so I can please myself and I don't have a partner... so pretty much I can do what I want.

[Deleted User]

OMG... Another bloody thread to keep up on.
Do any of you have a life?

C A D - I did a PhD. before a masters - it's more efficient that way. Just get your name down on the definite list. It's more efficient that way too, compared to endless e-mails ummming and aaaaarrrhhhing when you know you'll do it in the end.


This week's Training:

4.1M swimming, 42.5M biking and 76.3M running, 13.2 hr total. And 2 currys and a chinese. And 12, no 13 pints of guinness.

Garr

Been training for next years IM piss-up already! I put in a poor show on the Monday after the race, but after 2 bottles of red in one evening (one bottle of which I decided I didn't actually want and so rejected during the train journey home) I think I've made a good start for being fully prepped for next year.

smiley lady (M.)

a lot of phd's on here. I guess you're all used to working with long documents. Any idea why word keeps crapping out on me when the document goes above about 55 pages. I've a GB of ram so that's not it. very frustrating.

[Deleted User]

this week:

4M swim, 72M bike, 50.5M run, 3x2k@32 = 14.7 hours.

(does ceilidh dancing count?)

just been to MK 1/2M to stretch my legs in a different bit of the world. I was DETERMINED to run it at long slow run pace, as this is meant to be the down week in my long run cycles. All went well, set off neaer the back to make myself steady at the start. About 7 miles in decided I needed a pee - looked around for a suitable bush, but decided to get a bit of distance from a cluster of guys just behind before stopping - so sped up. So did they. I sped up a bit more. So did they. I got cross, and started kicking a bit. Couldn't get rid of them. At about 11 miles it transpired that none of them had a watch and were using me as an 8m/m pacer! Had to break it to them that the last 4 miles had been nearer 7:10 - upon which they decided they could do with a little rest, and very kindly waited for me while i made my comfort stop. And so to the finish. Not quite what i'd had in mind, but all good fun.

oxymoron

jees the newbies are gonna humiliate the original pirates!!

:-)

M...eldy

Errrr this one wont !!!

oxymoron

good! ;-)