A good weekend of training with an hour's ride on Saturday (with new G G G Garmin 705, more on that later) and then an hour's run yesterday, followed by a swim in the evening.
The ride was eventful which started off with an argument about whether I liked cycling locally or not (I don't) but then eventually we set off on our regular route, which morphed into the Purton route because we felt we needed to go farther. Rather windy on some exposed roads but down Blunsdon hill my speedo read 28.9 mph.
Anywayyy, about the Garmin. A rather stressful hour trying to line up all the bits and bobs to get the cadence sensor working before the ride but apart from that (and the fact it's refusing to pick up the HRM) its lovely, a wonderful new toy.
At Purton, up a VERY steep hill which i just about made it up but I thought my heart was going to burst out of my chest, luckily Paul had gone the wrong way so I had a chance to sit down and wait for my heart rate to come back down (a long time). So then I pressed the 'take me home' option on the Garmin (despite reports of the menu structure being unable to understand I don't think it's too bad, a bit like having a new phone to get used to) which worked wonders, taking us back a different (but expected) way. All in all a fun but very tiring ride (Paul not affected at all of course)
Run yesterday was looooong but unexpectedly I made it all the way round the back streets of Swindon for an hour only walking for about 5 minutes in total. Go Me.
Swim last night the usual, 1km followed by a few lengths trying to lengthen my stroke. it's not working, doing a length with fists then a length with normal hands, it's meant to reduce your stroke count but on mine does nothing. obviously i swim better with my hands clenched.
Hopefully I'll keep this blog more up to date than my other ones. I have something to aim for now: IRONMAN!
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