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The weather’s supposed to be good this weekend so I’m planning on going for a 10+ mile run and 40+ mile bike. After that, gorge myself on candy and Easter dinner!
Thanks!
Good Friday lie in. Espresso toast & banana breakfast. 43 mile ride -on my own, I tend to work harder that way. Chocolate milkshake recovery.
Training this weekend will include a 3-3.5 hour ride w/long climb intervals, 30 minute continuous swim on Saturday. Then a 7-mile run on Sunday with a 1:45 recovery ride. Happy Easter!
1 hour each of bike and run on Saturday (at separate times) and a 3 hour bike on Sunday followed immediately by a 15 minute run.
Hitting a nice 5 mile run along the Schuylkill trail, followed by an hour massage!
I would really like to try a recovery training, this because of my hamstring injury. 3 miles would be nice, in stead of the 16 miles I had planned for my marathon training.
Bike, run off the bike, and long run to work off the easter bunnies! :)
Plan to do some running, hopefully the rainy weather will take some time off. Plan to eat some peeps too!
Run, drink beer. Repeat
Making a sad trip to see family much brighter- ran in UK trail around Alderley edge, then a break and 6 km in Barcelona, back today to visit and hit 3 gentle km in the gym. I start flying back to Australia tomorrow and hope to run in Dubai for a few km before final leg.
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Hardest part- Dubai I only have 2 hour wait so it may have to be a swift walk around and around duty free!
New Zwift mountain extension
If you see a fatass running wildly in the woods, that may be me training. Yep, that kind of thing.
I hope to get out for a long run.
Some hillclimb trail run in nearby forest (10k-15k).
Will be running about 55 miles in preparation for Comrades. Practice marathon on Sunday, and then 5 more hours throughout the week.
Plan is to get a couple of 20 mile rides in before the weather turns bad again. Then back to the trainer…
Zwifting all weekend. Up to the radio tower we go,
Zwift for an hour tonight. FTP test tomorrow. Club ride on Sunday. Tjis is what life is all about.
Nothing fancy this weekend, probably try to bike Saturday followed by the usual long run on Sunday.
Two short recovery runs after last week’s half marathon PB.
As I’m out of shape I plan to go running until I collapse tomorrow, hopefully that will be after at least 6 km…
Sunday is family dinner so only thing to get any exercise will be my stomach…
Tandem ride to prepare for a long ride in April – followed by (hopefully) far too much chocolate.
What a Easter weekend this will be , many many km’s to . Firstly today was 165 km ride for my mate’s birthday which included the all important steri stumpie chocolate milk halfway stop . Tomorrow will be another century ride and I will be marshaling with my local club . Sunday will be another century ride which will definately include a Easter egg and mega cappuccino and lastly Monday will be a short recovery ride . What a weekend !
Going for a 10 mile run
70 mile ride Saturday followed by 12 miles of pure tempo running Sunday!
Swimming as much as I can this weekend. Just started swimming laps again after knee surgery.
Cross training in the garden digging and planting
mountain and road biking
Sad panda no riding, dealing with zipp hub recall. 10 mile run in the schitzo New England weather?
Steal my kids’ easter chocolate and have them chase me to get it back. Totally exercise. :-)
I plan on chasing my brother around the house, and eating his chocolate, then running away from him. I am 6 yrs old.
my plans include speed walking on the treadmill for 35 – 45 minutes each day..
Trainer ride and a trail run.
Get outside for a bike ride on Saturday & a quick run Sunday before kids get up
Roller intervals on Saturday, Short run on Sunday!
I just returned from visiting family in small farm town in Midwest. It was too cold for outside training (from AZ) and I did not have time to drive to a gym several towns away for workouts. Usually weekends are long workouts but will spend this weekend getting back into the workout groove.
Last long run before a weeks taper ahead of San Francisco Half Marathon next weekend whilst I’m there on business!
7 mile run this morning, 5k Parkrun tomorrow and 2k Junior Parkrun on Sunday with my little girl. Happy Easter Ray.
I plan to go for a run and take some barre classes.
Hill ride if the snow quits, Sufferfest Power Station if it does not!
Easter bike weekend on tap with CX on Saturday and long steady TT on Sunday – hope the nice weather stays as my time on trainers is starting to make me go bonkers!
First workout, and Ray get prepared for this too, will be a 10 k stroller run with our 1.5 year old. As prep for my half marathon later this year.
Then bike ride with the little man. Just to compensate those chocolate eggs.
long run tomorrow, hopefully a nice ride on sunday
I am training for marathon so over the weekend I have run no less than 165 minutes, with or without the Bunny…
I’ve just returned from a 16km run on the trails of La Gomera. Inspired by your trip to the Canaries I booked a trip to La Gomera and love it. So much trails (but hilly)!
Thanks!
Saturday is our bike groups long awaited century ride. A short transition run off the bike and then a group get together. Sunday is planned for recovery with a swim and short run.
Going for a tempo ride Saturday morning, maybe 60-80 miles.
18 mile LSD on LSD (LakeShore Drive) in Chicago and then a 4 mile easy run on Sunday with some stretching.
Hopefully squeeze a run in while on holiday
Raining outside, so riding on the new Zwift Mountain course. Base training and intervals.
Today I went for a 1km swim, tomorrow I will go for a bike ride and Sunday I will try to swim a bit more.
I plan to ride 3-4 hours Saturday and Monday since Sunday is looking like a washout. Easter candy will definitely be a part of the post ride nourishment plan.
Racing Masters 50+ Cycling here in SoCal
Been fighting a cold all week so gonna try and get at least a short run or bike ride in. Without the cold it would have been ~HM run on Sat and ~50 miles ride on Sun. UGH!
Ftptest and an easy ride , followed by chocolate egg hunting with the kids !
Running off easter eggs today,
Running off pizza tomorrow,
Running off easter eggs on Sunday
7mi Trail Run through the Poppy reserve with the run club.
Some easy km’s tomorrow and sunday in preperation of my first race of the season monday
High power output short intervals on the bike, a 40 minute easy run, a squash match, all followed by a 90 minute sweet spot bike session.
If the weather allows it; riding for the first time on the summer bike!!
Saturday going on the 31 mile Redlands RUFF ride, Sunday before Easter going to put on some more miles, and hopefully my Varia Vision will ship today from CT!
24 mile trail run on Saturday and a 10 mile trail run on Sunday.
A six and a twelve mile run.
Love got a club ride Saturday and some drinks after. Solo long ride on Sunday.
My goal in this long weekend is running 15k and swimming 3k on Saturday and 40-50 mtb ride on sunday hope to eat champurradas ( local sweet bread) and chocolate after the run!!!
I’m waiting to stop the rain!
6mi run and some taekwondo training
Few morning runs out on the trails. One already done!
My weekend training consists of a 1hr 40min run, 1 hr swim and around 3.5 hrs on the bike (hopefully outside). No telling how many chocolate bunnies that will take.
If I can rest myself than I’m planning some TT preparations and some training for the upcoming race on Saturday and the usual group ride of the team on Sunday is planned too!
I’m going for a long run this weekend.
Coach says:
1:20 run
2:30 bike (probably indoors) due to cold
20 min set aside particularly for stretching/foam rolling
40 min core circuit
What I’m actually going to do:
1:30 run
60 bike with the girl
120 training ride
10 min of the part of the core I feel like
Avda. Restollal 63 Bajo
(Trek Store)
Sat- 3.5H MTB, 40M brick run
Sun – 1H aerobic run
10K TT in Phoenix Park for me tomorrow morning
Ideally…a hard interval run Saturday and a long-ish ride Sunday.
Still xc skiing in the Great White North, and will be for a while by the look of the long range forecast.
With very limited time available, it will be a fast paced 10k to round up this week’s strength and speed workouts.
Do orienteering run first without a 2 year old son, then with him wife to search some eggs.
I went for a mtb ride today, first one in years. Away with family for the rest of the weekend so I guess the training will be resisting chocolate bunnies and eggs.
I’m running 20 tomorrow, my last real long run before Boston.
I need to win this! My Garmin has become totally unreliable but new ones are too expensive.
Bike intervals 40+k. If the weather cooperates probably a long ride.
run 4 miles on Saturday and 3 miles on Sunday preparing for a 10k
I’m maybe going to run out in the countryside at my parent’s house. I’ll definitely be getting a workout hiding eggs and then trying to help my toddler find them.
My plan was to ride at least 40 on Saturday, but the weather isn’t looking like it is going to accommodate.
easy 50k on the bike eating chocolate eggs, with a brick after. Then a swim and run on sunday while in a chocolate coma.
Saturday plan is for a swim bike brick while for Sunday a long ride is anticipated. This will be followed by the traditional Maltese Easter sweet, Figolla yummy!
Friday is a recovery day from vacation. Saturday will be an hour run in the morning. And I’ll try to get a couple hours of cycling in at some point Sunday, if it works out around family activities.
60k threshold two up !!!! then recover and 100k on mon with the girls
Recovering from my post marathon recovery with an easy swim and maybe a local 5k.
Saturday: 80 min run, 5 km swim. Sunday: Wattbike session, short run in evening, and 3.8 km swim
Chasing Easter Bunnies. Good training, and fun for the whole family.
Still two more weeks of skiing before switching into summer mode.
Friday: 16k run
Saturday: 1hr bike, 30min run (brick)
Sunday: easy 10k run
Eat a bag of Reese’s eggs and try to burn it off with some biking and running of course!
Two 5k runs and some Crossfit should do the trick this weekend.
Going for an easy swim is the plan.
Long ride on Saturday, some shorter intervals on Sunday.
Saturday: Buying a new (used) road bike, if we can agree on the price :-)
Sunday: 25 km as training for CPH Marathon in May
No Bunny, though…
10 mile run followed by cycle with 11 year old
Got a new bike so most likely set it up and go for a ride!