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As I’m training for Spartathlon – I’m going to do triple marathon training runs for sa-su-mo )
Mmmh, let’s see. The upcoming weekend actually includes a 10k race, so I’ll guess, I’ll step down on training.
Take care everyone!
Am i too late…..
Kinda like my training…. Trying to get there but please once i complete it.
Fri Cycle and Sat Soccer followed by Sunday afternoon recovery !
I went on a 15 km trail run.
Run 10k & BBQ
Planning of getting back to running. Been cycling only for the past month or so. No more pain in my achilles tender so time to start my trail running season
Two long rides and some rest!
Long run – 2:30 on Saturday followed by a short recovery run and a game of hockey on Sunday!
I’ll enjoy the final LSD training before a half marathon competition in roughly a week.
I had planned to do an one hour run with a HR at MAF or below
Just finished a 8 mile run along a windmill laden section of the Pacific Crest Trail (near Tehachapi) and finishing up with a post BBQ grill hour on the elliptical.
10k on Saturday and long bike on Sunday
long ride and long run
Long Ride in the Mountains between Marbella and Malaga.
100k ~ 62 Mi
Friday – Swimming comp. :)
Saturday – 50-60km group ride, 2h swim training
Sunday – 2h swim training
I’ll be doing one long road ride and 90 minutes of Sweet Spot another day. In between I’ll be attending my talented daughter’s senior cello recital at DePaul University. Cheers!
A hard 10km trail run on Saturday then a hilly 70km bike ride on Sunday, followed by a day of tree planting
Dinner and movie with my wife on Saturday and short intervals on Sunday.
Traveling on Saturday
10km easy run on Sunday Morning
Getting ramped up for summer triathlon season. Completed a decent group ride (40 miles) on Saturday. Indoor swim training Sunday (1000 meters). Plan nice stroller jog on Monday (5 miles). My son loves the ride!
Just a few easy runs this weekend. . .
Next Weekend will be preparation for the Radsporttage Gippingen and a friends wedding will take place.
Ok vacation, so primarily hiking and seeing who can eat the most.
Cycling for about 100k for the whole weekend
Long ride thinking about how much Dark Mark really loves Ben.
Enjoying the nice weather with a simple 10K run.
Time for a century ride !
simple 5 hour ride
5K run recovery, had crazy week at work
Upper body strength training, maybe some additional rowing
Besides one of the last games of fieldhockey of the season, I will be doing a run with intervals to get my speed up a bit, preparing for a 10k in the summer.
I’m getting married this weekend, so a completely different kind of exercise for me :)
Stuck with flue, 1 week before my first triathlon.
Guess biking with the kids to go to a park counts as training in this case :-)
Running race 6,6 km on Saturday, bike 40 km Sunday and a swim 1,9 km on Monday! Easy, breezy :D
One long ride is all I’ve got. And some walking with the wife…
2x Long endurance cycle, 1x all out 5km running and atheltics
Bikeride with some friends and a couple of easy runs
Short 40km ride on Saturday.
150km long bike ride on Sunday
Some hard climbing intervalls as prebaration for http://www.glocknerkoenig.com
Bike ride Saturday and Sunday. Long run Monday and hopefully swimming outside.
Saturday: 1,5h run
Sunday 3h bike + core training
Running half a marathon. The wife is running the second half. Great way to run a marathon without the doms!
First time ever using the Ambit 2S as a multi-sport watch. Indoor swim, cycle to the forest, run training with the club.
Rest weekend. Every now and then it is needed
this weekend i am running at the North Olympus Trail 20k a new race at the wild area of the mountain of the Gods
A little bit of everything; swim, bike, run, walk, and eat
Gonna do my 50th parkrun this Saturday and then a standard one hour upper body workout on Sunday at the Gym :)
Biking and swimming near Vienna, Austria. Due to the long weekend here, roads and the pool were both quite empty. Perfect conditions. Thanks for organising the giveaway.
Next week-end training plan: quite easy running session (or HT, as the weather is quite in France), because I’m recovering from a race!
Saturday: 150 km bike with 2000 m climbing: hill attack exercise
Sunday: 90 km biking with local Club
After some hard uphill cycling on the Giro’s mountains last weekend, some cyclotouring to Corsica
Ride my bike in the swiss alps
Open Water Swim/Kayak at Perhentian Island, Malaysia
A couple of 50km bike rides
A couple of 5km runs
This weekend I go for another 5km running, trying to avoid my latest running issue – shin splints
Gonne keep up running for my first tri this year. Probably 10…15k each day and a little biking on top. Depends on the weather.
Goal is to explore some new running tracks around my living place.
Planning to ride some 120km over some of The Ardennes hills.
The plans for the weekend involved hours of beautiful trail running on Table Mountain…unfortunately the reality of flu-ish-ness set in and so the weekend turned into bed and movies…a CleverTraining voucher would go a long way to making me feel better about not training :D
Bad virus this week-end… All training plans were replaced by tea, blankets and rest :-(
Start in Sierakow
Felt a little bit tired this week, so just an easy 30km long run.
Travelling to Toscany for a wedding but of course also rent a bike to ride and do some hill running :)
70 min run as part of a 10km training plan
Hi DC, the upcoming weekend is focused on SwimRun as the forthcoming race is getting closer. Race-day is 11/6 and is 21km running and 4km swimming in beautiful Stockholm. So the weekend will have a good mix of trail running, open water and some technical swimming in pool as well, together with my teammate. Check it at link to stockholmswimrun.com
And it would be greet to upgrade my Garmin 910xt to the new 735xt :-)
–TT
Cycling 6+ hours in Zone 1 an Zone 2 on flat itinerary.
Two bike trips and one cake eating at my daughter’s third birthday.
Week-end at the beach, so i’ll enjoy some open-water swimming and a rides to start preparing for the X-terra!
Have a nice week all
Max
Long running (30 Km) as usual Sunday morning.
Depends on what my small sons plan to screw up… but my intention is to start friday with a 2h base workout, saturday 2h 4×15′ threshhold and long endurance on sunday.
All weekend training plans had to be cancelled and instead I was doing a lawn planting cross training in the garden. On the plus side I’ve got my running tan improved with sunburns on the back and chest.
Hi,
So not sure about the details before digging into the weekend. It was a good one: 60 km mtb cross-country, and a golf round on saturday. While padling on sunday!
cheers
Intervals – 8x 400m + Mid-distance run (ca 15k)
It’s been one of those weekends where grandiose plans to have epic rides turned into long sessions of bike maintenance. Oh well, got some runs in, and hope to swim at the beach tomorrow.
short regeneration run and 2x 2h MTB with a lot of single trails.
Ready for the race…next Sunday will be fun
Go for a walk with my husband in the beautiful neighborhood where we just bought a home!
Two interval sessions, one running and one on the bike.
It’s the end of the weekend here so I’ll list what I managed….8km run on Saturday and a 43km bike ride on Sunday.
Easy 60′ run on Saturday, easy 45′ run with strides on Sunday, Monday rest day, Tuesday shakeout and Wednesday 3k on the track (a.k.a. 7.5 laps of dying).
Depending on the weather it’ll be a 100k race bike tour, a 50k mtb tour or just playing around with the kids…
A couple of sessions on TranerRoad for me this weekend.
Revising for my final university exams – just three days until I’m finished and can ride my bike all day every day!
Getting back in the game after pregnancy with short intervals.
I did nothing, but walk the dog (in the rain) and study. Perhaps a new new fitness device will help motivate me to pick things up again once my exams end?
No specific plans… Small tours of BTT. :)
Trainingride on the race bike!
Just planning the Cylco race, still wondering if I’ll do longer or shorter roadmap!
Still open?
BBQ sunday, after a 42km / 2500m D+ trail race!
18k trail on Saturday morning and short interval on Sunday evening!
4km pool swim and 2.5 hr easy bike for me. Off season fun.
tried to come back to longer runs with a 17km run on this weekend… not very succesfull though :-) …
50K on mountain bike
2 consecutive long runs and some recovery time with the family
I will have an Easy 14 km run on Friday early in the morning about 6 A.M and on Saturday afternoon Interval training – 5 x 1 km. Sunday is free this time.
Some training session before the Veluwezoom Trail.
I’m planning a 30k hike and some run. :)
I was racing the European Masters Swimming champs.
Open water swimminng!!
I will do a 60k+ of Mountain Bike, hopefully the weather is good so I wont be all muddy on the weekend.
As winter descends it looks like a few hours on the stationary trainer.