Weekly training 18Jan-124Jan

A great week of training my best for many years. I did something in each of the 3 disciplines that challenged me both mentally and physically.

SwimmingI swam a main set of 3x500m with ankle band and 60sec rest. I had done 3x400m previously which had also been a challenge.

BikeI rode to the bottom of the hill into Waimarama like I have been doing but this time I went back down and did it a second time.

RunI put up my mileage to 24.5 miles the .5 was a repeat of the hill half way on my ten mile run.

Swim

3 swims total:7200m

Bike

3 bikes total:65.37 miles

Run

3 runs total: 24.5miles

Easier week next week.

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Weekly training 11Jan-17Jan

Swim

3 sessions total:7100m

Bike

3 sessions started using G14 instead of G20(53x12) for turbo sessions legs felt much better on Sunday's road ride(10 min faster than last week for same ride) total:63.27 miles

Run

2 sessions I missed Sunday's run because Teresa was racing - total:14 miles

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Cooking primal - Kahawai fish

As part of my new determination to post more I wanted to get back to writing about other interests a bit more again.

Here is a case in point since my return to eating organic, grass fed, free range meat I have been buying a lot of fish. One of the many reasons for this is that fish is extremely healthy and canbe very cheap. I have had to learn how to clean and gut fish because whole fish are the cheapest. The cheapest is usually mackeral which seems to be a fish nobody wants and I can get these NZ$1.50 each and I've had some whoppers. My latest is the one featured in the photos below. It is a Kahawai NZ$5.50 freshly caught and it is in the oven baking stuffed with basil and fennel. As you can see it almost didn't fit in the oven.

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Blog posting and swim thoughts

I felt I was a bit lazy in posting in 2009 so in an effort to try and get to 104 posts for the year an average of 2 a week, here goes.

Swam this morning, added 200m to my total so it was 1000m with band and balls, my 500g weight fell off after 3x100m the plastic zips ties aren't working I'm going to try old cycle inner tubes. 4x300m + 200m with just ankle band on. I'm increasing my harder stuff with just the ankle band, which has an added strength element as well as technique because over 1500m I find I am swimming the first half or maybe the first 1000m okay and then fading quickly so I figure that I need some more strength endurance.

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Weekly training 4Jan-10Jan

Swim

2 swims 2400m in pool 1800m in pond total:4200m . After my swim at the race I really feel my retraining is working, I am training with renewed vigour and adding more swimming metres with just the band and no balls in hand. I may have forgot to mention that my technique work is still progressing with a warm up 1000m with balls and band and I 've added a 500gram weight to the band because I felt I was getting too sloppy.

Bike

2 rides, one turbo on a very hot day and it was a hard session I did because of not finishing the race . The session left me feeling yuck and buzzing in my ears. My legs felt it today on my road ride total:50.42miles

Run

2 runs total:14miles

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