getting into the early morning swims.
I’m back from France now nearly a week and I’ve been doing early morning swims. I’m not someone who naturally gets up early in the morning. In fact everytime I look at doing some crazy endurance event like cycling across america or rowing the atlantic, the first thing I do is check the sleep times [...]
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Well this week we decided to go off to Nice in France to attempt a bit of warm weather training. When we arrived we were amazed to see it was pissing rain. Although no day was as bad as the first we did get more than our fair share of rain. We arrived on the [...]
Posted by damian under Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments Offonly 14 weeks left……………….
Next week we are going over to Nice to do the bike course. I sort of fell off my bike last year on the course and in truth the bike course killed me last year, maybe it was because I injured myself falling off the bike but I really felt like a beaten man on [...]
Posted by damian under Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments Off5 weeks training done only 15 weeks left.
Well I’m 25% done through the training and it’s been ok. I have missed a fair few sessions but none of the key ones. I’d say last year I prob did 7 sessions a week and now I’m attempting to do 14 so it’s a big jump up. The weight is very slowly heading in [...]
Posted by damian under Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments OffHeart Rate my Ass!
Starting to lose a bit of faith in this heart rate based training. I’m pretty confident I am now training in the correct zone for me but I still have a few problems. 1. Some random days, for no apparent reason I start my session and my heart rate shoots up to 170-`180 on the [...]
Posted by damian under Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments OffBlack Sunday.
I had a bad week this week. Life got in the way of training. It started off ok, went for a long run on Monday down the cliff walk at bray managed to get in 1 hour 40mins. I was out in Galway on Tuesday and didn’t get anything done in the morning or when [...]
Posted by damian under Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments OffTwo weeks in a row this is getting serious.
I managed to hit 12 of my 14 sessions this week which for me is unheard of. Normally I’ll do 3-4 sessions a week having planned on doing 20. Got out for a long bike on Sunday which was a bit of crack with the Bray Wheelers, we managed to get three punctures from Bray [...]
Posted by damian under Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments Offholy shit i’m actually pretty much sticking to a plan.
I really surprised myself this week. I had a plan that involved swimming cycling and running and doing some weights and for the first time in my life I actually stuck to the plan more or less. I may have missed one or two sessions but was close enough. I surprised everyone in Bray shoreline [...]
Posted by damian under Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments OffBack on the Bike.
I am looking at following an actual program for the first time in my incredible Ironman career. After Ironman France last year I had a look at www.markallenonline.com as I’d heard loads of good reports about it. However they have you working at a heart rate worked out by a fairly standard formula having got [...]
Posted by damian under Uncategorized | Permalink | 1 Comment »Getting Back into the swing of things.
I haven’t updated this blog since November 2010, so what has happened since. Think around the 8th November I came off the bike in a big Bray wheelers pile up. I’m a bit of a wuss so I haven’t been on the road since done some strange cycles on the Turbo at about 2AM till [...]
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