madasaboxoffrogs by madasaboxoffrogs

Distance: 800m
Time 30min

Monday - last session in the pool in Didcot. Now I've got SOLL Leisure centre membership - I'll be swimming in Wantage or Faringdon instead. Or maybe even in the open air pool in Abingdon. I started off in the "fast" lane as usual, but soon a few serious swimmers got in and kept overtaking me. Luckily the rest of the pool was less busy by this time, so I moved back into the main area and finished off my 32 lengths there.


Distance: 3.17m
Time: 26m31s

Mile 1 - 8m21s
Mile 2 - 8m32s
Mile 3 - 8m13s
0.17m  - 1m23s

Tuesday lunchtime. A brisk run. I'd thought about doing 4 miles but a) set off way too fast (I looked at my Garmin in horror to see i was running at 6m47s per mile) and b) decided I wanted to keep a bit of energy back to cope with the gym in the evening and c) it was hot.


Distance: 1.85km
Time: 15m00s

Core exercises: 180
Strength work: 302

Distance: 0.60km
Time: 10mins

This evening I returned to the gym for my first session on my own to try out my new programme. I found the selection for the hill training and embarked upon a slow but invigorating treadmill run. 15 minutes later and I'm fully warmed up and onto the core exercises. Again I found the V-sits too hard, so swapped them for long arm crunches. The Ab crunches were again quite easy, and the Russian twists easy to begin with and ... impossible after 60 reps!
Then strength work, 12 reps on each exercise x 3 repeats. As the Shoulder press was busy when I wanted to use it I squeezed in 50 reps on theadductor to fill in the time. Then lastly 0.6k on the Elliptical trainer. Last week I did 0.58k and this is a distance that I'm supposed to beat each time I do the next 10 minute go on it.