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EZ BZ

Been a bit crazy around here lately, so very sorry for the radio silence. It’s been a pretty easy week on the training front though (hence why it’s called an easy week):
Monday — Rest day. Biked to work.
Tuesday — Run 8k easy.
Wednesday — Hill intervals, about 11k total (including 4x Mt Sinai loop).
Thursday — Run [...]

Crunch week

It’s nearly coming to an end, just one day to go, one run and maybe a swim. The big training week has gone pretty well so far, and I’m looking forward to an easy week before starting my next four-week cycle.
The runs went as planned. Monday I did 6×1,000m intervals at the track (on 200m [...]

Suckers

Something about cycling etiquette all riders should know, is not to draft any random person who cycles past you. If you’re not part of that cycling group or have no relation to the person who just whizzed past you, please, don’t suck his/her/their wheel(s).
Because it’s just not right. Would you attend a party uninvited? At [...]

It’s a dog’s life

Long weekends aren’t really in my vocabulary. A scheduled off day on Saturday turned into a 10am-7pm workday at very late notice, no thanks to some breaking doping scandal.
Sunday and Monday was thankfully unscathed by anything laborious. Just an 8k easy jog (to follow up on Saturday’s 80k moderate-paced ride) and visiting (which ironically is [...]

Another week bites the dust

A much welcomed easy training week and a bonus day of rest today before the next three-week training block begins.
M — Run, about 8K. (4K easy, 3×1K hard, 3×50sec hill, 500m cool down.) Bike to work.
T — Swim 2.6K. (1,000m easy, 5×150H50E, 100E, 8×50H, 100CD) Bike to work, left bike at work.
W — Run 65min [...]