Month: April 2017

The Road to Roth – Week 6 – Close call on the crash

After another 17h week last week, I was quite tired starting week 6. It wasn’t bad though, I just felt like a needed a few days to get back into it. I weighed 80kg on Monday morning, but was holding water (and other things) from the weekend still.

Monday

Cycled to swimming, legs felt good. Swam for 1h05 and cycled home.  I’m not sure why we swam shorter than normal, I would have rathered do another 10 mins, but we had to get out at about 9pm.

400m in, 6x100m flippers, 8x50m drills, 100m easy, 6x150m arms, 100m out. 2500m? Continue reading “The Road to Roth – Week 6 – Close call on the crash”

Liege Bastogne Liege 2017 – 272km Sportive

Liege Bastogne Liege Long Route

I have been a bit worried about Liege Bastogne Liege. 272km is a very long way to ride in a day.  The weather forecast started off decent, but got gradually worse and worse until rain, wind and cold was forecast for the first 6h, perfect!

We signed in on Friday, it was a low key affair, much smaller than the Maratona last year.  Then we hung around a bit until Dimi arrived and we were ready for the ride.

nice weather the day before the ride
Blue skies, the day before the ride!
The ‘Start’

At 5am the alarm clocks went off, the apartment was cold enough, I was pretty worried. I wore everything I had and we set off at 6am to the start.  Now I say the start, I mean the start area. Although it says that we can start between 6:30 and 7:30, there was no official start, or even start line!  We cycled the first 800m, then asked around, then went back to the start where we learned that there is no start, so we set off. Continue reading “Liege Bastogne Liege 2017 – 272km Sportive”

The Road to Roth – Project 2017 – Week 5

The last time I weighed in I was 77.7kg.  Week 5 is Liege Bastogne Liege week, so everything will be a bit different to the norm.

(Easter) Monday

I just did an easy 11.4km run. It was cold and windy and generally unpleasant. My stomach was also unhappy, so I just ran at 5min/km and was done. Went to Pizza Dato instead of swimming, will swim tomorrow. Continue reading “The Road to Roth – Project 2017 – Week 5”

The Road to Roth – Project 2017 – Week 4

Week 4 of training already! I seem to have lost a little weight last week, I had a couple of weigh ins at about 78.4kg, hopefully I will see 77.x soon.  My knee is sore during and after my faster/longer runs, which is aggravating me. I wore my knee brace to bed last night but it hurt a bit still!  I will try to sort it out before the season starts.

Monday

Cycled to the pool, we swam lots of kicking drills, I tried the push and pull kick method I had seen online. 400 in, 4×100 kicking, 5x100m arms, 4×250 with 150m crawl 50 other, 5x100m flippers 100m out. 2900m?

Cycled home with the wind, was fun. Continue reading “The Road to Roth – Project 2017 – Week 4”

The Road to Roth – Project 2017 – Week 3

Going into week 3 on the Road to Roth, I was a little beaten up from my crash last week and a little tired from my ride yesterday, but nothing too bad.  I feel like I am managing quite well.

My weight is annoying though, I seem to be stuck around the 79kg mark. I really want to get down to at least 77kg, with 75kg being the real goal, but it just isn’t happening right now, even though I feel like I am eating more vegetables and not snacking. Continue reading “The Road to Roth – Project 2017 – Week 3”