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Week 10 - Building & Cake

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04/03/13 - Swim Session This is the furthest I have swam to date on this plan, still not enough time in the evenings to swim the hole warm down as the pool closes at 10pm and I can only get in for 9pm. I need reduce the rest phases which I am and swim faster in the sets, which I am trying to do. It was great to have an empty pool apart from kids that were heavy petting or at least trying to in the corner of the shallow end, out my way. Session Details Duration 00:55:00 Distance 2300 meters Average Stroke 12 05/03/13 - No Training as it was my wife's birthday and she had my full attention all day, what a nice guy I am. Well she is only 30 once... 06/03/13 - Turbo Session This session was powered by birthday cakes, and what a nice birthday cake it was. I'm now moving into he power interval sessions, high resistance the maximum with a cadence of 60 RPM Warm up 20 mins 3 x Power Intervals 3mins on / 2 mins off Warm down 10 mins...

Week 4 - New Gym, New Training, More Pain

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23/01/12 - Rest Day 24/01/12 - Rest Day 25/01/12 - Gym Spinning Since my son has been born, my evening now belong to him (for the time being) so my evening training is out the window, so I've decided to join the gym at my work so when I have a spare hour I can disappear and train in my lunch break. I decided to purchase some training audio and where else to go than Audiofuel, and Chrissie Wellington new audio triathlon training release. I can only recommend it, I've used it for both my spin sessions this week and its pushed me like never before in a bike training session. I only did the 40 minute pyramid but it was intense enough for me just getting back in my training after the long absence. The Pyramid was: Warm Up 1 min HARD 1 min RECOVERY 2 min HARD 1 min RECOVERY 3 min HARD 1 min RECOVERY 4 min HARD 1 min RECOVERY 5 min HARD 1 min RECOVERY 4 min HARD 1 min RECOVERY 3 min HARD 1 min RECOVERY 2 min HARD 1 min RECOVERY 1 min HARD Warm Down Se...