Base Week 1(4) – 23 weeks to go…

And we’re off … up to now its been a case of doing whatever i wanted to do, when i wanted to do … but as and from this Monday 21st of January, its a plan to follow and i’ll be doing all i can to adhere to this ‘plan’.

One week in, and ‘yes’ I’m tired, the body took a lot this week … lots of hours clocked up, and not as much sleeping/resting as i’d like. Oh and of course work and family took a hand there too to get in the way of training & recovery. However this is to be expected, the whole philiosophy about training is to progressively overload the body and in time the body will take it on board and respond in a positive fashion and adjust to the stresses.

Total 10h:13m 2h:53m (28%) 4h:20m (42%) 3h (29%)

One of my longest weeks logged in training – i’ve done more time before, but those were usually Bike focussed weeks which isn’t quite as tough on the body. This week i got 7 sessions in, plus five days worth of commuting and a football training session. 3 longish runs does tire you out. Wouldn’t it be great not to have to work a 40-odd hour week as well.

I wonder will i be able to keep this up for the rest of the Base period? Course i will …

24 weeks to go … I have a PLAN

Okay okay I’ve not been blogging too much of late, but its not because I’ve been scratching myself “Dear Reader” – rather the main piece of work that I’m quite pleased about is not the great swimming set I completed, nor the ridiculous amount of running intervals at high pace or even my Pantani-like hill climbing … no no no .. .its been the creation of the “Master Plan” - cue drum roll. This plan will be the broad approach that will take me from here and now through the next 20-odd weeks to the starting line and beyond.

What follows is how I’ve devised my plan – it may be suitable as a case study in what not to do, however its what I’ve come up and as far as possible, I’ll be taking this route to IronMan glory … well not quite, but you know what I mean.

New layout – better or worse ?

Comments welcomed … ? this is how the original version of the site looked …