From late Janaury until race day when i was officially training:
Total hours = 206 hours 30 minutes
Average per week = 8 hours 36 minutes
Break down per sport = Run 36%, Bike 43%, Swim 20%
I’m a bit surprised at the actual numbers per week – its lower than i thought, and way lower than my beloved wife would have the world believe. According to herself I’m training morning noon and night – however these facts would challenge that theory!
As to the individual breakdown, the swim is higher than a Coach would suggest … the ideal being to split them according to time in the actual race itself. However for me the swim was a problem (both physically and mentally) and so i needed to put in the extra efforts to bring my swimming and confidence up to an acceptable level. It would seem that my cycling did suffer, and instead of being strong on the bike i went backwards (particualrly with respect to my team-mates) in this sport. I didn’t put the work / time in on two wheels – simple ;-(
Next year will be different … how I’m not quite sure, that’ll come out in the coming weeks when i build my IML09 plans and strategies.
Please click here to see a graphic showing weeky training –> weekly-totals
Click here to see how this is broken down by sport —> weeklly-log-imde08
Thedata has been “retrieved” from my online logbook – I use www.triblogs.com. I doubt very much that I have logged all the training i’ve done in the half year leading up to the Race itself, however I’m sure I’ve captured most. Note – these numbers don’t include such activities as cycling to work.
What follows here in this entry is a general commentary on how the year progressed.
Its over a month since IMDE – i’ve had a week in the West of Ireland with my family (they had two), I’ve started in a new job (which is going fine so far) and generally taken it easy. Swam twice, ran twice (pulled a muscle) and cycled twice in a month !!! That was a week’s work not so long ago
Some things have gotten done around the house that have been put off for a long long time, Mrs Yendor is somewhat happy at this … however i think its time now to do some thinking and working out my next target, the next challenge otherwise i think i’ll go mad!
Since Germany i don’t think I’ve had a good night sleep – as far as i can tell it would seem that i’m simply not tired enough going to bed at night. I’m finding that its 2-3-even 4am in the morning before i’d get to sleep and consequently i’m in bits come the morning alarm call ;-( Something has to be done about this. Before the eyes go the whole way in to the back of my head from lack of sleep. [I'm not in to sleeping tablets].
Get this left calf muscle sorted out
Get training for the Dublin Marathon which is only some 11-12 weeks away. So whilst there’s still time, i need to get going soon once this leg is healed.
O yeah – i nearly forgot – i signed up for Ironman Lanzarote 2009 today. Yipeeeeee
This nearly took me as long to make as to do the race report.
I thought i’d play it clever and let them get over the line, and i’d be on my own for ‘official pictures’ however the geeks weren’t able to process them quick enough and so unfortunately there’s no picture of me going over the line with my name & time above me on the gantry. Such is life …
I have absolutely no idea what they are singing about, but i love the voices .. this song was on my MP3 player and i used to visualize the finish line when this track would play, and invariably speed up … for all of 3 odd minutes. If you listen to the words I think I’ve got it to the punchline at the right time – maybe not!
I might do another one of these some day with some photos incorporated? Maybe not…
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