Weekly training 8Dec-14Dec

Woke up Monday feeling really tired from the weekend. I usually go swimming but wasn't really in the mood so when Cameron fell asleep an hour before we were due to go to Kindergarten I realised it just wasn't meant to be.

Woke Tuesday at 4.30am for my run at 5am listened to torrential rain decided to go back to sleep.

I decided to complete things by missing Wednesday evening bike trainer session. So I missed one session of each discipline.

The good news is missing those sessions was the right thing to do and I trained really well for all my other sessions. Swimming was fantastic.

Swim

total: 3500m

Bike

total: 54.41 miles

Run

total: 18 miles

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Fruit update

This is the latest fruit tree in the garden.

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Weekly training 1Dec- 7Dec

Swim

total: 4200m
Another fistgloves ripped so I started to use some small plastic balls to do the same job. Only they are even more difficult to use, using the fistgloves there was a slight flat spot. The balls take even that flat surface away, so I went back to doing 100s and 30sec rest with balls and band aound my legs

Bike

total: 67.35 miles
This week the computer stopped completely on m y ride (Raukawa Rd towards Waipawa). I turned around after 18miles (after one of longest climbs I've done for years so the return would bring me to 36miles. But because of the computer I don't know how accurate it is. I know I was out for a long time and I felt very tired at the end but that might simply be the doing harder hills. I spent some time on Sunday trying to diagnose the computer problem and it turns out that the magnet that attachs to the rear wheel had died. So I found another one and it worked.

Run

total: 26 miles
1x8, 2x9 feeling very comfortable. Used a new pair Brooks adrenalin shoes I had stored away, to see if it helped my plantar problem. I have been using my current pair of adrenalin for quite a while and they are some of the best I've used, a really long lasting sole.

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Garden update

Gardens going well black raspberries are really amazing and we have had some red. I've had a battle with some birds that have nested in one of the trees, I have to seal the raspbeirries in a bird netting cocoon. Strawberries are providing 2- 4 fruit a day. Feijoa tree almost died through a lack of water, I honestly thought it was drought resistant. We have started buying a different variety of feijoa (it has a beautiful red flower) to grow into a hedge at out front fence to replace the trees I have been slowly cutting down. I just don't see the point of keeping trees pruned if they don't provide yummy treats.
Harvested the second half of the garlic crop 23 bulbs of proper garlic. We have planted two types of runner beans (one is purple until it is cooked) and after the success of the broadbeans I insisted on another so we found some butter bean seedlings. We also planted courgettes and cucumbers as seedling as the hens had messed with our seeds before I hen proofed the veggie beds.

Garlic (second batch)


The best garlic bulb from first batch


Cameron wearing my beaten up sunhat (its the hat or skin cancer) the hole in the ozone layer is directly above New Zealand


Winning the raspberry battle

Final note..

New Bertha is broody, my friend Shelly who gave us new Bertha asked the other day did we want chicks and if so let them know when we have a broody hen. We're undecided, Ill probably see Shelly at her stall at the farmers' market on Sunday and ask her for a fertilised egg.

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Weekly training 24Nov-30Nov

Swim

total: 4800

Monday I did 3x500 wearing the fistgloves and band and I was amazed then I did 100 with no band and the feeling was amazing it was a religious, magical feeling. I felt like a cork -so bouyant. Tuesday I challenged myself to do 2x750 with the gloves and band which I did and very proud of myself I was do. I backed down from doing the 1500m with gloves and band on Thursday.

Bike

total: 64.17 miles - still having computer problems.

Run

25 miles (2x8mile)1x9mile

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