The start of a busy Thursday

My alarm went off at 5.25am - I snoozed for 10mins.

Cycles to Southampton common to meet my fellow run gang members of Katherine, Stuart and Tamsyn. I got a lovely pressie from Katherine from Denmark and my new power paddles for swimming. Tamsyn got a lovely new skirt that Katherine's not wearing anymore. Stuart got nothing :(

We then set off on our run. We did park run route c. Stuart and Katherine gossiping ahead of Tamsyn and I who were also gossiping away.

The run was quite tough but we did chat our way round it so I could def go quicker and of course in race conditions would def go quicker as alot less gossiping!

5k in 33:45.28

I'm happy with that.
Great start to the day :)

Boxing and fat club later. Will also take a pic of my goodies from Katherine

w/c Monday 11th Nov = start of my Half Ironman training

Monday 11/11 – Tri Club swimming

34 lengths = 850m in 22:54.61

• 200m 5:00.88
• 200m 5:32.78
• 200m 5:20.77
• 200m 5:40.42
• 50m 1:15.24

Tuesday 12/11 - Boxing with Pam

OMG – my thighs are now in agony

The key indicator for me with boxing will be seeing how my ability to do press ups increases.
At the moment I can’t really do one – let alone the 200 we “did” on Tuesday.

Wednesday 13/11 – Bit of a rest day!

I was going to do LRR training at 7pm on the common but I could barely walk so had a lovely evening catching up on my TiVo recordings. I did do 10mins on the stationary bike.

Early morning Thursday 14/11 – Run gang on the common (me, Katherine, Stuart & Tamsyn so far)

Stu’s instructions:-

3 lots of 4 x 400m (i.e. 12 in total)

Liz - 2m 12 per 400m with 2m 12 rest between efforts. Tamsyn - 1m 56 per 400m with 1m 56 rest between efforts. Katherine - 1m 49 per 400m with 1m 49 rest between efforts Stu - 1m 25 per 400m with 1m 25 rest between efforts

After each 4 you get to slowly jog 400m as extra recovery.

This is what I actually managed:-

400m  2:17.33
Rest 2:00.45
400m 2:30.96
Rest 2:35.00 (I moved my bike)
400m 2:35.67
Rest 2:00.30
400m 2:35.90
Rest 1:00.54
400m slow jog 3:08.64
400m 2:32.37
Rest 2:00.43
400m 2:33.08
Rest 1:00.57
400m 2:28.46
Then easy jog 1:57.27

Total time = 33:16.97

So plenty to work on with run gang!

Will do some cycling this evening, then rest day on Friday, tri club swimming Saturday and maybe a walk on Sunday.

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My first park run

5k in 31:05 - my first park run - Southampton. Made me realise just how much training I need to do over the next 15 weeks to get ready for the half marathon.

1st 3km in 18:33.43, next 1km in 6:43.85 then the last 1km in 5:49.84

I was pretty much spent though at the end! Great fun - cup of tea afterwards at the Hawthornes - what a fabulous cafe they have there now. Katherine got a pb - 25:05

Have decided to do at least one park run a month maybe two and then tri club swimming once or twice a month.

Absolutly chucked it down for about five mins and then a beautiful autumnal day again.

Hmmmmmmm

I had a wonderful holiday in USA - got home last week. I did though put back on 7.5lbs so am back up to 12:5 - siiiiiigh.

Need to get back into Slimmers world. Need to lose at least 21lbs before Brighton half marathon. I have thrown myself down the gauntlet. Lets see what happens.