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Last weekend I did our usual group run and then started the taper for my race tomorrow. But now my throat feels scratchy. Hope all that training wasn’t for nothing.
Sadly, my neck has kept my training log empty for a while.
I went for a temperature ride. 26 degrees Fahrenheit required a 26 mile ride.
Saturday 2x1500yd Swim + 1hr on the trainer. Sunday 12mi trail run!
Always use the weekends to do a longer trainer ride, last weekend was my first go at Sufferfests ISLAGIATT this offseason
A 4-mile run, a couple 3-mile walks, and a 27 mile bike ride.
25 miles of singletrack on my trusty Niner RDO. Peak HR 170, avg cadence 85, avg HR 144, Max speed 18mph
Last Sunday I ran the Fort Lauderdale marathon. Tough race for me, but loved the challenge! Love and hate, all at once.
1 hr in the pool!
Run 7 miles, and swam 49 laps- 48 per year+1 for the next year… happy bday to me!
I spent my time doing intervals and 5 mile run in pouring rain in beautiful Portland, OR.
Yesterday I did a 45 min run
Just a few HIIT intervals on my new KICKR Snap :-)
Some tempo work on the bike trainer.
Strength training on Saturday and a 14 miler on Sunday.
i did some swimming this weekend. Thanks!
Sat: 4 mile run on the death-mill
Sun: 1 hour swim followed by 30 min core work
I did my first proper turbo trainer ride, following GCN 1hour burnout video! :D
I then did my first ride on Zwift, which was really fun
Strength training and a 10 mile run. Thanks!
I did 10 miles on the bike, ran 3 miles, ab workout, and did some weightlifting.
90 minutes booth Camp training in Mirabel on Saturday and 5k easy run on Sunday
42km run from my office to home. Just a weekly event.
The purpose of this set is to build aerobic endurance and promote good form while swimming. Throughout this session aim to hold technique and focus on the rhythm of the stroke, especially on the longer intervals. For any drills, you may need fins (available from our online store), and you may also need the Tempo Trainer Pro (available from our online store). If you are unsure of what drills to do, then have a look at our you tube playlist of all the different drills we recommend (link to youtube.com). For mixed stroke, do both backstroke and breaststroke to help open your muscles and use them in different way to front crawl.
Lazy from a training perspective. Only 2 pool sessions!
Hopefully a relaxed 8-10 mile run on your old stomping grounds… -Guillermo
Same as every weekend: weights at the gym on Saturday, long run on Sunday. But in honor of Valentine’s day, I wore red running shoes.
Recovery week. 34 miles total. Two 13.5 mile runs as a guide for a trail running camp (http://www.trailrunningescapes.com), a 4miler, a 3 miler, and one strength training session.
Saturday was TRX (will it ever get easier?) and Sunday was the San Dieguito Half Marathon, a hilly road race to train for the March Catalina full marathon. Hot but still a nice day and a good run.
Doing a progressive 13 milers at 6200′ elevation this Sunday. Weee snow running!
I worked on Saturday and did a 56 mile road ride on Sunday. Thanks to my valentine who allowed me to get off on my own for 3 plus hours!!!
Unfortunately just working… no workouts
Swim TT on Saturday and bike FTP Sunday.
Long weekend; long training days (for me anyway!)
Sat: 1 hour MTB / 90 min brick trail run
Sun: 4 hour MTB ride
Mon: 3 hour MTB ride / 30 min run
Handball practice on Friday, no game in the calendar on the weekend, so it was nice and lazy.
Simlpe Easy runs here in another east coast Blizzard
Walking
A nice long slow along the beach about 20km of barefoot running
Two trainer road rides.
Took advantage of the nice weather and rode as much as I could!
An easy swim in the Glenwood Springs hot pools
Training for a marathon so I did core strength workout on Monday, followed by 6, 5, 5, and 10 mile runs through the week.
This past weekend’s workout was a half-marathon race. So, easy jog Saturday, half-marathon on Sunday + flop shake-out swim after.
Did a little MTB ride to get my legs in shape for a 300 mile tour I’ll be doing this season.
Zwift interval Workout indoor cycling
Keeping up with the kids.
I did intervals for 45 minutes and a threshold run this morning. I will be doing a 5k race tomorrow….
Stair climbing for the Fight for Air Climb, happening next month in Chicago.
No workout done since it has been raining all weekend. Hope to do extra work this weekend
Swimming and running and TRX workout !
I ran a marathon on Sunday and PR’d by 37 minutes!
Lap swim and drills during my kids swim lessons. Multitasking.
My training has been 2 workout on the cycletrainer, 1 on the skiis and one testrun to see my resultat.
some endurance miles bofore I start HIIT next week
Workout in the gym.
Last weekend was a bust for me but this weekends looking better with a long ride and a half marathon
Nobody is going to read this but he I go:
It was a recovery week after a race. I still did a 10 mile trail run with 3000′ of elevation gain.
Saturday was a 40 min swim followed by a weights session. Sunday was a 6 mile walk over a local mountain (more for fun than training but I’m still counting it!)
I will admit that I currently don’t have a training log. My workouts have been inconsistent. But last weekend, I went for a run up a muddy trail and down a snowy one and it was the most fun I’d had in ages.
Hike, insanity workout, swim, gym strength training.
Running a lap of Lumphini Park just so I could get some sort of physical activity in a week of constant travel.
2hr run in the hills
23km od MTB trails and 4hrs skiing.
Just a short 5km run as I was recovering from an injury.
On the weekend just a couple of quick bike workout(1,5 Hours), for me weekend means family time!
Last week end , that was a free 1h running with : 10 minutes between 150 – 160 pulse , 120 – 140 pulse in 50 minutes .
It’s my Valentine ´s session . Cool and easy , just to be in good Health ?
Saturnday: bike ride; Sunday Long run
Decided a week ago to drop 20kg of fat, one kg per week. So weekend or not my days are all about long low pulse biking.
Yesterday intervals, today – Saturday – 3 hours low pulse
Sadly, nothing.
Nothing outside of carrying my 7kg of a daughter out and about.
2 swims, 2 runs and one ride!
Well, It was a great weekend – brick training on Saturday (1 hour of bike on the track plus 50 min run) plus a swimming session and cross training on Sunday followed by easy bike 1h. :)
Too much work unfortunatelly. No workouts this week :(
Saturday: beach run in sunny :S bournemouth, sunday pool swim.
Friday was a roller session with 10 min warmup 4min tabata (20 sec (around 600-700w / 10 sec easy) and 11 min cool down.
Saturday Strectching and Core Excercises
Sunday….. Cyclocross with a Buddy. It´s going to be a muddy ride of 43km with more than 1000m of climbing :)
Zone 3 blocks on the TT rig saturday, then 80 miles Zone 2 sunday :)
Managed to reach your distance goal of 10K, as i’m training for my first 10K race coming up soon! Now to keep working on up’ing the pace a bit :)
commute to work is about all I could fit in
I Had a (quite slow actually) country run with a beautiful winter sun. No runner met, but a wonderful way to jump start the day!
I had a long run in preparation for my first Half on 19th March. Ran parkrun, then kept going for a total of 10 ish miles
3,5k swimming. Non stop.
Due to the weather, I have been stuck on the trainer. I know that some people favor the trainer for building a base, but I love to go some place when I ride. Also been adding some core workout to my training. still not as much fun as riding…
Monday Warm-up: 15 minutes at 120 to 140 BPM Base: 30 minutes at 145 to 165 BPM
Tuesday: Off
Wednesday: Intervals
Thursday: Core
Friday: Off
Saturday: Warm-up: 15 minutes at 120 to 140 BPM Base: 30 minutes at 145 to 165 BPM
Sunday: Off (unless the weather is nice then out for a coffee run)
Had to skip swimming on Sunday, but compensated it on this week
Normally i would do a ice skating training on Saturday but this weekend there was a NK junior championship, so it was closed for us.
Ski weekend! No energy left for other activities.
I did a weight session – picking up lots of boxes as I moved house.
Hi there!
2 swimming sessions and one 1hour-long swimming race.
A 3mi run and a yoga session was my weekend training
20 miler at old man cruising speed
Building up to 100 miles after a few busy weeks.
15 miles run to watch the sunset at the Golden Gate Bridge. Pretty awesome.
Saturday, a 46 km ride in Richmond with Zwift on my Tacx NEO. Sunday I went to Watopia for an easy 25 km ride. Nice weather both places. :)
I got a weird week in. I have spent 7 days being a guinea pig for the Australian Institute of Sport. I have been subjected to a bunch of very unpleasant liquids and then made to perform 3km pursuits.
Not much of a sports person bit my husband is. Unfortunately he had a bike crash last Monday and is currently lying in an hospital bed as he related above. This would be great present for him.
Last weekend’s training included a 12 mile long run in blustery snowy single digit temps up and down the local mountain trails. Indulged the next day with an indoor track session.
Did 2 hrs on Zwift with brother-in-law on Saturday and then did a 45 min run on Sunday
Long trainer ride, long run, hill climbs
Hill repeats on thursday, swimming monday and saturday, easy runs the other days.
4hours L2@210W, 3x15minutes L3@275W.
Enough to feel it when walking down some stairs :-)
Last week-end I raced a cross country skiing Marathon!
In fact my weekend training I did it on Monday, Saturady and Sunday was raining. I run for 16 km and I felt very weel.