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Saturday: rest
Sunday: 30km skate
Watch rugby
Brew beer
Shovel snow
Saturday: Rest
Sunday: Marató de Barcelona
For me it was a nice 10k footing while visiting Munich to prepare a 30k race happening in less than two weeks : eco trail of Paris !
Rest after a week of commuting to/from office.
Play with the kids.
Getting ready for the Fred Whitton Challenge in the UK in May so test ride on Saturday of 165km around the edge of the Scottish highlands.
Saturday: Short run – short on time
Sunday: 45 minutes of Spin – snow and rain make outdoor biking too hazardous.
Saturday : 15km trail running around volcanos
Sunday : 60km moutain bike
Saturday: 1:30 hs TrainerRoad workout
Sunday: 10K St. Paddy’s run!
Last weekend was a water polo game on Saturday and a four hour ride in the hills of the south of the Netherlands. This week is recovery week so only an easy 2 hour ride is programmed.
Saturday: 1 hour Barry’s Bootcamp
Sunday: 1 hour Barry’s Bootcamp
Saturday: 5k Race
Sunday: 3 mile recovery run. (Or bike ride depending on the weather)
Recover after injury!!!
Not less important!
Checking out the Luxemburg 70.3 triatlon scene for June 2014
Sat: rest
Sun: 15km race
Saturday: 2 miles easy
Sunday: Tobacco Road Marathon…My First!
Tue: CX on dirt roads, 2h
Wed: 30 easy run (test of right calf/achilles)
Thu: MTB 2h
Fri: Rest day
Sat: Run 60min (or CX 2h if test not OK)
Sun: Road cycling 3h or MTB 2h (depending on weather)
5km Parkrun pushing my twins in the buggy. Hoping to break 19 minutes!
Saturday: 100k cyclo-sportive – Joop Zoetemelk Classic
Sunday: 10k race, finished 12th in a new PR of 00:36:20
12 hour sleep followed by a 10km run and 60km bike ride.
– Saturday : time trial of 30k
– Sunday : half marathon near Nogent-sur-Marne, France : 1:26:12
Did an eleven mile run on Saturday.
a glorious mountain bike ride in the Forest of Dean on the first dry weekend for some time. Can’t wait!
My weekend routine as follow
Saturday: long run alone or with my buddies
Sunday: easy run and 1 hour gym work
I will be taking the kids for a long bike ride this weekend.
Friday – 30 min easy run
Sat – rest day
Sunday – Anthem/Shamrock 1/2 marathon.
Rest Saturday. 14 mile run on Sunday.
Saturday… 35 miles on the road bike.
Sunday… 2 miles on the treadmill and 1.5 miles running in the rain after a month off due to injury.
Well, plan was simple, Saturday 7km run, Sunday 20km bike, otherwise running after my kids. But got ill, so only running after kids happened.
Well, I’ll go for a 50 km ride on Saturday with the necessary coffee stop and on Sunday 70 km with some hills :-)
Btw the weather in Crete is amazing as well!
Sat morning 50 minute spin class (since it is still so cold here in Chicago)
Sun morning swim (2k yds)
Sun afternoon run
Saturday: 8 km orienteering in snowy and slushy terrain (typical spring weather in Finland).
Sunday: 17 km cross-country skiing.
Sat: running 3x1mile intervals
Sun: 70min long run
12-mile canoe race on Saturday followed by a 4-hr “recovery” paddle on Sunday
Just a bike time trial.
Ran 35k, and it was Gooood :-)
Saturday: Long ride
Sunday: ‘Long’ swim (main set 400s)
18 mile run, in the rain.
Sat: 1 hour of bike intervals
Sun: Rest :)
Sat: ski ride with daughter and son in Les Houches, Mont-Blanc
Sun: 6k easy run with my son around Passy’s lac
Saturday: a quick and easy 5k run
Sunday: Free weights and maybe 30 minutes on the trainer while catching up on some podcasts.
105km Cycle on Saturday and 15km run Sunday
Saturday did a 2hr trainer ride (b/c it’s so freakin cold in Chicago still!) followed up by a 15 min run outside.
Sunday did a 75 mins on the treadmill (20 degree weather, no thank you) followed up by 1300yds in the pool.
Today will hit up the pool for 2100yds of training fun!
My plan was to do a 19 Km time trial on Saturday and two (2) 40 minute criteriums on Sunday. Did all of them and added in a few kilometers (28 Km) by riding to the criteriums and back home.
Run :
20′ warm up at 5:30m/km
3*8′ at 85% Max heart rate R=2′
footing : total 1h20
Planning on doing 100mile ride and 4 mile brick afterwards.
Jerusalem Marathon (I’ll do the half marathon)
Saturday: 1:30:00 easy running
Sunday: 45:00 swimming, 60:00 bike trainer (some of trainer road workouts…)
Sat was a 850m swim
Sun 20k bike ride followed by 5k run.
Saturday will be a 2 hr trainer workout or hills if the weather cooperates, Sunday will hopefully be a group ride with some miles added on at the end.
Saturday: Rest Day
Sunday: Indoor Triathlon and a 75 minute run
Thanks for the great blog!
I’ll take the weekend off, the closest I’ll get to working out will be lifting my newborn son repeatedly! :)
30 minute run/3 hour bike Saturday (various Z4/Z3 intervals), 30 minute run/2 hour bike Sunday (steady Z3). Recovery with Girl Sout thin mint cookies. Thanks!
2 hours of Saturday was spent in an endurance workout on the trainer. And yes, it was as boring as it sounds.
30 min on Sunday biking around the neighborhood with the kids.
Saturday: 80km at 65%-75% with the race bike
Sunday: 95km full power MTB ride
Monday: I’m at bed because flu :(
Saturday: interval training (50mins): 3-2-3 (80%pace) + 10km swimming (evening- 5km+3km+2km)
Sunday: 80km bike (30km/60%pace+30km/80%pace+20km/50%pace) + 5km swimming
W Triathlon!
Seb
* Saturday: 10k race ( Maniacka Dziesiątka) + 1.5k cool down
* Sunday: light excercise + stretching + 45 minutes of swimming
2 Hour trainer session on Saturday.
Long run on Sunday
Eat a ton of pasta on Saturday; run the NYC Half on Sunday.
Racing this weekend – indoor & outdoor inline speed skating in Atlanta. High intensity sprints Friday through Sunday capped off by a 5K outdoor race.
Saturday – Long 18k run at 5 min/km pace
Sunday – Short 6k recovery run at 6/6:30 min/km pace with my wife
Thanks
REST! Dealing with a bad achillies ahead of running in the oldest race in North America in 2 weeks – the 30km Around the Bay in Hamilton Ontario (3 years older than the Boston Marathon)!
my weekend workout was recovery from a hard crash earlier in the week. celebrating my birthday is so much better with legs up and an icepack on my ankle
Love your reviews & thanks for the give-away.
We celebrated our daugther’s birthday over the weekend. Took a rest week on triathlon training and get back into the groove this week.
“Cross-training” by snowboarding with my daughter and friends!
90 min bike Saturday, 75 min run Sunday
Saturday: Easy run 10k
Sunday: Easy long run 15k+
50 mile bike
My weekend training plan:
Sat. – Sufferfest Rubber Glove on trainerroad
Sun. – 1K indoor swim
I usually have my ‘long’ run (between 10 and 20 KMs, still new to this running thing) on the weekend, during the day, which kind of messes with me as it looks as though I can’t run properly before 18:00 o’clock in the afternoon :)
XC Ski and an hour of VO2 max intervals on the trainer.
ZA bike training for About 2 u
Zo Running ten mile
Sat: Bike ride with my 2yo daughter – which I call the “Tour de Playgrounds” ;-)
Sun: Ran the Tobacco Road Marathon in Cary, NC – finished in 3:49, a huge PR for me!
Great weekend of activity!
Saturday: first road ride of the year. 3.5 hours with a very solid headwind!
Sunday: first trail run of the year. 1 hour.
2 hours on bike and 1,5 hour running
Some shoveling and a long run.
I ran about 6 miles with my dad in Louisiana during my baby shower weekend.
In a training hiatus due to pregnancy! Had to give up running two weeks ago, so this weekend was relegated to two long power walks, and then some shoveling this morning (yet another morning of snow in DC!).
Saturday – 30mi bike
Sunday – 7mi run
45 min Z2 run Saturday.
1.5 hour bike ride Sunday with a few friends!
Friday: 3k swim / 45 min trainer ride
Saturday: 3 x 5km run / 90 min trainer ride
Sunday: 3k swim / 90 min trainer ride
10 mile run on Sat. Sunday is always a day of rest for me. The following weekend is the Charlottesville 10 mile race. yahoo!
M: Interval run
T: Masters swim
W: Strength and core (lower)
R:Masters swim, strength and core (upper)
F: Rest
S: Trainer brick
S: Free run
My plans are easy: I´m a professional sky and trail runner and for the upcoming season my saturdays are altitude-saturdays. I have no high mountains where I´m living, so I choose the stairways at the world heritage in Kassel/Germany. My aim is to reach 2000m of ascent. The difference between top and bottom ist 100m with a lot of steps. Wish me luck to get that in a good time!!!
Saturday: 3 hour bike intervals on the turbo followed by 15 minute threshold run
Sunday: 2.5 hour endurance ride on the road followed by 30 minute easy run
Saturday will be 5 mile temp run, Sunday will be a 50 mile tempo ride with the mighty Fullarton Wheelers CC!
Sat: 40mi trail run link to strava.com
Sun: 20mi road run link to strava.com
On Saturday I will try to finish my first Brevet (200km)! and on Sunday I will try to do a short ride <120km
Holly Molly! :-)
9 mile (running) race Saturday, then had planned a 17m long run yesterday but was struck down by man flu.
But plenty of time to fully recover before London marathon….
Sat. 40 mile bike
Sun. 10 mile run
Sat: Rest
Sunday: Semi-indoor triathlon of Meudon / My first tri ever! Hope this will give me luck for this giveaway :) For the record ended 49/152
My weekend workout plans include a 22mi ride w/ Team360 in DC, plus TRI-MANIA Summit and Expo.
Saturday – Indoor bike race followed by 45 minute run and weights. Sunday – 90 minute swim in am with a 2 hour run in the afternoon (-13C and WINDY). Spring can’t get to Ottawa too soon.
Lots of training — track work Saturday, and a recovery run Sunday. Shoveling Monday. :(
Mini brick Saturday working up to my first Tri, a sprint, this summer. Then Sunday a 4 mile run.
Saturdays training: sit ups, 2km warm up run, sit ups and pushups, 2km high intense, sit ups and pushups, 3km high intense, sit ups and pushups, 3km cool down
Two 50-mile tempo rides with friends.
Planning an upper body workout – shoulders, biceps and triceps on Saturday, followed by my first outdoor run of the year on Sunday – planning for around 8km.
After my first tri, (short one) follows an hour run on Tuesday, 35 min gentle swim on Wenesday and later that day 1.5 hrs bike. Finishing the week with an hour long run, easy pace.