How far have you ran/cycled/swam today?

[Rupe]

Yes the ride was pretty much flat, some slight undulation but nothing you would call a hill. 20Km is 12.5miles and my split time for that was 38minutes, plus 8min for the swim, 20minutes for the run (im sure the run was less than 5km!) and 1minute for each of the transitions (from swim to bike and bike to run) makes 68 minutes.

 

But I came 148th !! So room for improvement. Fastest was about 55minutes or there abouts, not sure yet. Over 500 competitiors in total.

[Christopher Schroeter]

Well done on that!

Makes me feel a little better. There's nothing BUT hills round here! I was hitting them pretty hard too. Until my lungs were screaming!

[Rupe]

Yeah but you go down the hills aswell! Any circular route should average out the same, what you lose going up you must gain coming down. Where I actually live there are hills on three sides and the fourth side is just boring/industrial and then farmland.

 

The hilly sides are the lovely cotswold hills and thats where I always go biking, hils are great and I'd hate to live anywhere flat.

 

The triathlon was at the cotwold water park which is lots of old gravel extracted lakes on the southern end of the cotswolds so by the very nature of the geography its flat there, perfect for a triathlon.

[ben lightfoot]

Well done there rupe, I have been tempted by a triathlon seems a good variety of training but unsure of the open water swim. That would need plenty of training

[Rupe]

Yep, swimming is the difficult bit, unless your a lifelong good swimmer but even then I know some who cant handle deep water, fish etc!

 

This time last year I couldnt do a length of front crawl in the pool, the thing with training is very simple, if you do it you will get better. Nothing much more to it than that. I got better in 3-4 weeks and then joined a triathlon club so I've now had a winter of 1-2 nights a week of swim coaching.

 

Just got back from the pool today and did 1Km straight off in 19.56

 

Anything is possible!

[Amelanchier]

Yep top third would be my aim for most things these days, not quite there with the dualthlons yet!!

 

So 148th from >500(ish) is <29% Well in that top third mate...

[Christopher Schroeter]

I'm enjoying this endomondo thingy! It's pushing me harder than before. 19 Miles today.

 

I'd love to try triathlon. Maybe when Im a bit all round fitter.

[Rupe]

So 148th from >500(ish) is <29% Well in that top third mate...

 

I wish!!!

 

Got the full results today, and the 500+ entrants turned out to be 371!! So thats nearly 40%

 

And I was 24th in my catagory (mens over 40) out of 53 so thats 45% !!!

 

My excuse is that these events are a bit more specialist and top half is good enough for now!

[Will Ayers]

Just starting training for the OMM in October. Running every other day at the mo, just slowly building up. Usually with nothing to train for I'm a lazy git so I haven't done much training since my last OMM two years ago (pre baby). So I am a bit rusty to say the least.

 

So I'm pushing distance by roughly half a mile a week, currently hovering around 7miles this week. finding it easy progression so far. And I'm trying to get consistently under 8min/mile over progressively longer, short runs. Managing 3 miles at that pace so far. Lots to improve on but I'm happy with my fitness as a building block.

 

Anyone else run mountain marathons? I really enjoyed my last one, which was also my first. Any advice greatly received.

 

 

Sent using my pudgy fingers on my phone.

[Rupe]

Another triathlon done last monday.

 

Swimming very good, biking poor, and running average! Same weekend as tree climbing comp but found the tri easier as the comps drag on for hours and make for a very tiring day.