Archive for June, 2008

Workout: Type: Run Date: 06/10/2008 Total Time: 00:40:00.00 Distance: 4 miles Average Pace: 10:00/mile
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A really tough swim at the NE31 Tri club last week - it was a 400m warm up, and then 2 x 800, with the first set on hand paddles. I’m obviously not doing things right with these - I ended up with a really bad stitch in my left side about half way...
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I was going to multi-task a family picnic at the reservoir with a swim-bike session. But then the huge ride up from Gabian through Fos and to Montesquieu had been all up-hill and into the wind (OK, it wasn’t really so huge, but it felt like it!), and I saw snakes swimming in the...
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Just the facts: 10k in the late afternoon of another showery, but warm day. My usual route from Gabian to Fouzillhon and Pouzolles Took just one x 500ml bottle of diluted fruit juice in the back pocket of my waist belt thingie Bottle wasn’t upright and leaked, leaving me in a sticky mess from the hips down Quite...
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Despite my training plan having Sunday 1st June down for being hungover, I felt fit as a fiddle. It was just that the weather was awful. I held off for as long as possible, hoping for the rain to stop, but it just went on and on, so in the end, I headed out...
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