Micro adventure

a 2 hour 58 minute "race" around the Pen y Fan horseshoe. 6.86 miles climb 1927 feet av speed 2.3mph

all in my "lunch hour"

Last night

Last night spin training hills and sprint session. V hard.

Hurricane running

It felt faster but timer said only 1 minute 8 seconds faster than last week. 3 miles 33.28 av speed 5.3 mph. Not the quickest but will get better. Plus it was dark, raining, windy, half cross country, 6 gates 2 cattle grids and a numpty in a 4x4 pulling a trailer slowed me down. Honest.

Gales

Yesterday I got back in the saddle in front of a fitness class so they sweated to my choice of music and were pushed to a 7.5 minute hill climb finale.

Today a bimble around on the ridge geocaching, found my first one. Nerd alert!

Gales meant no cycling.

Hill training

Very hard session 7.6 miles hill training. Thought I was going to die. More uphill than down, down was suicidal due to road conditions, hairpin bends and flail hedge trimmer. Will do again as its not far from home and only took 45 mins. Be a good building block for the 321 challenge next year.

Watch this space.

321 123

New challenge decided for 2015. Its a biggy, once the publicity pics are created then all will be revealed but it does involve a bike, a dog, a big bike ride and a long walk. Some mountains and very little sleep.

Good news is doc says I am not ill, just injured. Results of lots of tests show all negative, CT scan to go but confidence is high that I have "simply" hurt myself rather than anything sinister. Huge sigh of relief celebrated by huge breakfast.

Spinning class tonight, 50 mins av hr116 max 149 cals  400

Building blocks

45 mins of stationary cycling bit at least it was outside. 17.3 Km av hr 117 max 138 steady pace building session.

#runhappy

First run in ages, 3.1 miles 34 mins, max hr 192! average 138. Not too shabby x country in the dark :)

Not so early start

A planned early start with a cheeky 30 mile bike ride fell apart due to laziness and rug rats so instead a 8 mile route on the mountain bike 2 hours later transpired. Good workout, lots of spinning.

Nearly decided on next years challenge. A 3 day event. A big one.

Miles or Kms

Fairly quick trip in on racing steed, cleat fell out so lopsided, return trip slower probably because changed gadgets to kph rather than mph.

Today

Spin. Much better than last Wednesday but still crap music.

Up and down

Supposed to do the Bonsai Banzai tonight. Two things prevented this (three if you count laziness) 1) Lack of traffic both human and animal meant that the tracks through the gorse bushes have disappeared. Endless dithering and pushing through spiky bushes slowed things down. 2)Dog took off on descent down the long haul and chased after sheep who did not want to play. So instead of turning and heading back up I spent half an hour playing tracker looking for naughty dog who had in any event decided to go home. 1.76 miles, 55 mins climb 678feet.

Same old

Back to spinning, winter training mode, usual crap music, not really exerted myself, av hr was about 110

On patrol

A quick, well fairly quick recce around the bonsai mountain which included a trip to the top to see the moon. 2.12 miles 44 minutes wandering. Almost training.

Rest up

Rest day, partly enforced by severe chest pain from bruising from impact with solid objects a week last saturday.

First frost

A cold start, supposed to be doing the autumn epic but ill rug rats and partner meant caution advised and decided to just go and do my own thing for 1.5 hours on racing steed. Hence, 21.13 miles, 1 hour 27 mins 13 seconds, av speed 14.41 mph, max speed 37.73 mph ascent 1256 feet. Tired legs. Left ribs mega painful from last weekends crash off bridge. First frost of cycling season!

Love It!

Piloted new MTB over 7.25 miles (over half off road) and it was big on the grin factor. Big leg workout, massive climb up the Hergest Ridge again.

Take your time

Training has taken a hammering due to work and married life so opportunity has been crowbarred into the day by taking MTB over the ridge to work so today 8.5 miles or so up the massively steep hill. Great fun.Intense workout! All over including the panic muscles. Time take was not impressively quick, a good runner would have beaten me but they would not have had as much fun on the downhill section.

Best laid plans...as ever

Rubbish week training wise... life gets in the way... so finally got out today and did 16.89 miles in 1 hour 1 minutes and 47 seconds. Average speed 16.19 mph, max speed 38.17 mph, calories 1495 (doubtful!) ascent 748 feet.