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its been said before but the fink swims are bloody quick, and quite enormous.
If you can get half done you are going well!
I am 4 weeks into my Lanza 30 program, and missed the last 3/4 long bikes..... and 80% of the swimming.
oops
oh well the running is going well!
The mantra for tomorrow is 'i will swim tomorrow night, i will swim tomorrow night!'
JC - its all about frquency at the moment - just getting used to doing 1-22 things a day. The volume will come
and then you cant hammer it as you will be toast!
Swim #33 done here, apart from the second drills
I'm in Germany this week, and they don't appear to do lane swimming. Good practice for the very beginning of a swim leg though. Only got hit once. The pool must have been 7m deep too
+1.
Is it a problem that we're only managing 70-75% of the sessions?
How have peep's that have previously Fink'd got on on the day?
I'm in Wk 3 of Fink - 2 weeks of padding as I know I'll be away with work in January and somethign else is bound to throw a spanner in the works. Adding extra biking this year as I reckon it's the main area available for improvement.
In Week 1, I missed my bike target and in Week 2 I missed the run target. However swimming looks safe this week as my two sessions are done but I know I won't be doing my optional 3rd session of Friday - Christmas night out with work on Thursday.
I swam in Germany for nearly a year a while back - makes for great OW practice having to duck/dive/get physical (with the old ladies I mean doing widths in stead of lengths)
I don't think I will start my training until after xmas - just not mentally prepared to do this yet as I didnt decide until yesterday morning. Has anybody done the 24 week frey and huddle plan and have opinions on it?
ahhhhh....i remember that!!!
i'm off back to bed...see you all in March!!!
Was thinking exactly the same, though I haven't read the book since signing up (last minute spur-of-the-moment thing and all that) but can kind of remember parts since reading a year ago..... am I right it still uses 4 week blocks that are split into 4 stages rather than 3?
Probably not the interest to start a 'Frey/Huddle for Outlaw 2012' thread then... just me and you RBM
We tried to do the Brownlee brother session from 220, but got nowhere near it. Lost track of what we'd done, but plenty of drills and must have been a mile, give or take a length or 2.
Now to try and get some kip before spinning early tomorrow morning.
Gosh, i can only dream of such a time Dave. Great running!
Christmas night out last night, not too hungover but zero concentration on anything!
Desperately tried to break 1hr 40 this year for 1/2M, but could only manage a 1hr 41 in the end.
Didnt manage anything on Wednesday as i had a poorly family to look after.
Got on the Turbo yeterday and had a steady 30 minute session followed by a 15min run, my first brick of the season.
Swim today for 30 minutes, i am disliking swimming a little less everytime i go.
Building back up again very slowly, a total of 1200m broken down to 1 x 400, 1 x 200, 4 x 100, 4 x 50
Hopefully a little less winding at the weekend so i will be able to enjoy the rutland hills.
Have a good weekend fellow Finkers
Good time DD.
I'm hoping to break 1:45 or 1:40 this year, but I'm not sure I can even be arsed to enter.
Just back in from Friday's 30 minute run. It almost makes it fun running that short. Did anyone notice the Intermediate swim #34 was 3km vs the 2.5km for theall the others in the base phase? I left out the second 8x50m DR to stay within the hour.
Let's see how tomorrow's bike pans out, what with this weekend's xmas shennaigans.
I lost a whole week's training due to work committments and a niggly back injury, but I went out for an hours run tonight in the crisp air and bright moonlight. If that's not enough to remotivate me then nothing is.
I'm going straight onto week two. I don't think you'll suffer too much by loosing out on week one Jack, but I'm a virgin at this so don't take my word for it.
Afterall you have only missed 4 hhs....
If, on week 10, you have onlydone 4 hrs,then you are in trouble
Dont worry now about missing sessions, you cant get them back
DO worry about getting in there and getting it done in the future, if you are struggling each week to get everything done then perhaps that particular training plan is not for you, devise one that does fit your lifestyle and one that you can achieve. There will be nothing worse than getting to a Sunday each week and ending on a negative note having not done the sessions
Illness and injury happen, its a fact and apart from a good warm up/cool down there is not a lot can be done with injury and a good healthy diet will help with illness
Worry about what you can change and not about things that you cant, if it is laziness and CBA that is stopping you getting out there now then you do need to give yourself a talking to cos it aint gonna get any easier
Enjoy the ride, 1st July is the prize.
My plan is two sessions in each sport each week. The swim will be one fairly poor lunchtime swim and one good club swim, the bike one commute to work (20 hilly miles each way) and long bike at the weekend, and the run one lunchtime run and one longer run before work Only throw a few bricks in as the event gets close.
But I don't really know what I am talking about so probably better to follow the plan!