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The 10K I’m about to run.
8 km bike climb on Bkool trainer
Easy 10 miler
1 hr treadmill/outdoor running depending on weather
Tomorrows hill repeats :-)
An hour on the trainer tomorrow
Great Western Loop x2, recovery run.
today 100km ride 1500 D+
No racing for me.
Workout: Citadel from Trainerroad.com
A 35 miles ride on Coyote Creek Trail.
Saturday morning training at Takapuna beach with North Harbour Tri Club (swim-bike-run).
5km in the New Forest as usual – will there be snow?
The Festive 500 challenge on Strava – ride 500k in 8 days between xmas and NYE
2 mile walk with dog.
Group ride at Sydney Olympic Park Tuesday morning.
I am aiming to do a 3.8km ocean swim before the end of this year… Have just completed my first half ironman on nov 30
A nice and easy one hour long run around the town I grew up.
What ever is next up on Trainer Road traditional base program.
My annual 10k round my village, early on Christmas Day!
Rapha 500 to keep the xmas pounds off!
Marco Island 5 Mile Hill Run, Dec. 20th. 17 hills on Marco Island, FL. It hard to find hills in Southwest, Florida but this is the real deal. I have won AG two the last two years and going for a third. Undecided about the a Sprint triathlon the next day.
45 km cross-countryskiiing
Just a 30 km winter workout un thé Meudon’s forest (Paris suburb)
A 10 km run around my hometown lake in South-West France during Christmas holidays.
10km race 2014/12/31
In training for xc skiing race Vasaloppet but still without snow so I will have to focus on getting some long runs in.
20 km trail run in the Netherlands where I live.
I am running as often and then Christmas Eve run a 17km run and run my debut 21km in February….
Tomorrow long run at Z2.
Was quite sick and out for a couple of weeks so I’m just starting to get my cycling going again. Simple base workouts 65-70% ftp on the trainer.
going to hit up my first parkrun for something different
San Silvestre Vallecana, 10 km race the last day of the year!!!
I’m in the military deployed to Africa, running for the Air Force in the Grand Bara 15k Dec 18!!
Going for a 21k tempo run around the ring road here in cold Oxford, UK.
Did a mountain road Marathon last Sunday in Gerês Portugal, recovery time now. Easy 40 to 50 km biking tomorrow early morning with 1ºC, and easy 1h run on Monday.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for everyone!
10 mile race with a Christmas pudding as a finishing prize!
A swim on Monday. 24 lengths, 12 lengths, 4 x 4 lengths, 4 x 2 lengths.
Christmas Cross Country Race in Meaux, France.
Just a little 5k on Monday…
I’m living in Paris but I will go back Belgium during the Christmas holidays. If the weather is a bit decent, together with some friends we’ll do the Tour de Flandres track. Next to that I’m kinda expecting to get the Garmin 920XT and Garmin Virb (through Clever Training ;-)) so looking forward to a lot a running, biking and skiing in 2015.
Merry Christmas and a Happy Newyear to all of you!
A pre-New Year run round Amsterdam’s Vondelpark!!
Classic 10km in Sant Cugat, Barcelona, the 31st of December.
A slow 10k to get something back into the legs again!
X Country race in about 3 hours time
Winter training in full swing. Never before have I had so faithfully done. I hope my PIM (Prague International Marathon) fares better than the last two years.
I’m doing the Runner’s World run streak (ten days in), so I’m doing 3-4 days on, one “off” (2 miles). I’ve got a good 5-mile tempo run coming up exploring a new neighborhood I haven’t been in yet.
an 20k running in Rome city
A 10 k run to the pool, then one hour masters class swimming, then another 10 k running to get back home.
Endurance training for a certain selection board.
Monikie Winter Duathlon next weekend in Angus, Scotland. It will be cold, it might be snowy! It is my first race under Edinburgh Triathletes. Go Team!
Happy holidays all!
I will be in Amsterdam for 3 days. Planning a fast 10k there. Run the world!
Starting every sunday from 7th December till 15th February Winter uphill runs league on a nearby hill about 700 meters of elevation. Hard fun ;-)
I will do uphill running every Thursday.
Marine Corps Historic Half, May 16, 2015. A lot of fun with a long hill near the end of the race.
5k Tomorrow!
Sunday 60 km ride to get rid of friday and saturday christmas parties hangover (first with my cycling club and second with my work) and then again wednsday just for fun :)
5km today and 10 x 400m tomorrow, luckily it’s only meant to be cold and not raining….
As I do every year I’ll do a long run on the morning of the 25th to build an appetite…
Every Day I going to work with my bike Just in December are about 1000km in this freeze month
Santa 5k race around york racecourse.
Festive 500 of strava, 500km split in 3 parts between Christmas and New year’s eve in the ever cold Netherlands with temperatures between -5 to 0 degrees Celsius. just to train rule #5 of the velominati:)
5k run today
5/12: 3.1km indoor swim, time: 1:09:41, avg pace: 1:23, avg strokes: 8(*2), pool length: 25m, avg swolf: 28
Planned to step on my Wahoo KICKR on 30 December and ride the Marco Island Road trip (Kinomap video)
Ice canoe training for the up coming season!
10 mile run on Sunday
First 10 miler since fracturing my arm, Twice round my local hill circuit, then back on training for spring marathon.
Hains Point 100 link to hainspoint100.com
Planning to participate in special event at our local gym: 3 h indoor cycling on December 16th.
15K run tomorrow, a nice first test race for my first marathon in april! This one crosses 5 bridges, so its going to hurt!
3x 15min intervals Zone4 / rest 10min. Hope to do them outside, however if the rain continues, will climb on the trainer.
I’m heading over to Hawaii next week, so I am looking forward to a nice long run somewhere in Hawaii. Any recommendations?
No races left this year but this weekend I am trying out yoga for runners for the first time!
Trying to break 30:00 for 6km in the Sydney Corprate Cup.
After having no luck this year I got a spot in the starting line next year at the Berlin Marathon. Can’t await it.
Doing a 2 hour bike ride this morning as part of my training for a busy 2015 Tri season, that will include Ironman Princeton. Pushing to get another 200 miles in before year-end along with 75 miles worth of running.
Tuesday, running, 20 min. warm up, 6×100 intervals, 10 min. cool down, 10 min streching
No race till end of the year, but today i will go for a fun run around 15 km with my dog!
Sit ups, this morning. 10… er no, 12 of em!
Here I go!
Gonna go for a long run this week while in Orlando for Disney with the family
90min Z2 ride today on the trainer.
No races left for the year… But i got a long self paced training with my dog at the mountain…
No running:-( it’s aquajogging for the next weeks.
Just completed this morning’s local parkrun. Superb fun every Saturday morning and next week it’s the Santa Run. Bring it on!!!
Running the annual Running Room New Years Resolution 5K run in Saint John, NB Canada on December 31st.
Only running until end of year. I’ll do a 21km race for sure (half marathon)
Easy run today and hard swim intervals on monday
5 x climbs of Swains Lane
link to goinggoingbike.com
Fat biking dec 13 up American fork canyon alpine loop
Ride to Lucky’s lake swim
(http://www.luckyslakeswim.com) for an open water swim and ride back home
Seeing how many more times I can grovel my way up Hobart’s beautiful Mt Wellington before the end of the year
Run 54:29 at half Marathon pace (5:37 min/km) to practice Half Marathon pace. Total duration 1h:14m:29s
20 minute power accelerator by E3 & Trainer Road on the indoor trainer for me.
On December 21st I’m taking part in the Six Inch Trail Ultramarathon, a race from North Dandalup to Dwellingup about 100km south of Perth in Western Australia. It’s a 47km race, and will be my first marathon and ultramarathon.
I say I’m taking part, because I’m hoping to complete the race in the time allowed (7 and a half hours), rather than a more competitive time (current female course record is 3h48m, held by Lauren Shelley, a 2h33m road marathoner). To be honest, with a 4:30am start time, and last year’s race held in record 42.C temperatures, I want to wake up in time to start, and I just want to finish.
Sick right now, but next race is Dec 31 Resolution Run!
Lots of gym attendings and cardio training inside. -10c is not the best weather for outside workouts.
Kinda Cup East/Root66 seried
50km ride thru all the Tijuca National Park, in Rio
1st session of my winter bike training base period. 2hrs in endurance zone 2 with a short 10sec anaerobic burst every 5mins. All done while dreaming of empty roads and warm sun come next june
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Now until the end of the year i have a 10 K race here in Athens called 10 k race lake of Vouliagmeni. When we finish we can dive inside the lake where water has a steady temperature around 21-22 degrees all year.
After that i have a 20 K race in the mountain above Sparta. The mountain is called Taygetos. I went there last year and at the end of the race people wait you with sausages and hot soup. Its perfect
A lot of kisses to you and your loved ones
Merry Christmas and a happy new year