The price of petrol has changed the way I train
Had another lesson with Rosie on Thursday, up until now we have been working on ‘pretty’, setting the stroke up for the catch, that was the easy bit. Now all I have to be able to do is dislocate my shoulder, manipulate it independent of my arm, then get all the other muscles firing in sequence to pull the blade through the water. Sounds easy doesn’t it… well working on it… I am getting a little wrorried about the Brass Monkey, still haven’t made it down the pylons(not that I have really been trying) and I am not sure how confident I will feel on that part of the river in the sprinter. It’s a unknown factor at this point.
Friday I was too lazy for anything. I used to have Friday as my rest day, but set up my rest day to Monday, as this gives me a break after the weekend. But I think I am going to have to change back to Friday. I just have no motivation for getting out of bed early on Fridays. Didn’t bike to work either, but as I was sitting in the traffic, I looked over to the Petrol station and saw that petrol had reached $2. I thought I am a idiot, rain or not, I am not going to melt if I bike only 4 piddling K’s to work. Problem I do foresee with this is I am trying to paddle at least 3 times during the week, and I don’t really want to bike all the way to Arawa and home. And Tuesday I got straight to running class after work, so that leaves one day where I can bike… Oh dear maybe I just need to get the road bike out, that would make biking a lot quicker and easy than the bohemeath of a mountain bike I use to get to work normally.
Well this morning I went and did the 10K track at Burwood forest. Think I did it in the fastest time ever, 1hr exactly, and I wasn’t pushing it very hard, though at places was pushing it really hard. I think my lactate threshold level has risen. I can run with my HR up around 175 for a lot longer period of time. I must go and get it tested again. But for most of the run tried to keep HR around 165. The track can be quite tough when you are pushing it, with of few hills (though nothing to tough), but heaps of sandy patches that make it quite hard going. I got a good rythmn goign at one point and told myself this is the speed I will need to do for the half marathon.
The Half Marathon… eeek.. only one week to go, and the max distance I have done recently is probably about 14K. Its going to be a very interesting experience. Though I am not thinking I’ll be able to break the 2 hr barrier, so not even going to focus on that.
Anyway, after my run, I decided that I might as well go do a paddle, as it’s the same part of town. It would save me having to drive back saturday or Sunday arvo. As my paddling isn’t very strenous at the moment (just on the muscles that haven’t been used to the new technique), i didn’t think that it would effect my paddling very much to do it tried from the run. For the most part i don’t think it did, though I did get tired more easy. Spent about 20min on the river, trying to get the paddle spearing into the water and the shoulder manipulation going. I think in some ways I was successful, and man did my core feel it. My side abdominals were rather sore by the end of the session.
Well tomorrow, me and Nades are going to give orienteering lark ago. Hope the weather ain’t to cold or wet, but looking forward to it. It’ll be fun to do something different.
