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One Hour Brick
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Mixed it up a bit tonight with a 30 minute indoor bike workout followed by a 30 minute treadmill run. The bike ride consisted of a short warm up, followed […]
Monday Night Bike, Run, Bike, Run
After yesterday’s sluggish 20 mile run, I planned on just doing an indoor bike workout tonight. However as the day went on, my legs felt surprisingly good and I decided to incorporate some treadmill running into the mix.
I started with 20 minutes on the bike - a nice easy gear at quite a high cadence […]
Tough Love, The Treadmill & Essential Abs
I wanted to make a positive start to my training week today, so decided on an indoor bike workout, treadmill session, followed by the second workout of week four in the Essential Abs program. I tend to log my workouts Monday –> Sunday which allows me the opportunity of making up any shortfall in my […]
Three Short Bricks & An Ab Workout
Tonight’s workout made a very pleasant change and turned out to be quite a challenge. I needed to run tonight and I also needed to ride my bike, so I decided to combine the two activities and perform three short “bricks”. For those not aware of the terminology, a brick is a combination “bike/run” and […]
Cross Training: Outdoor Bike Ride
I’d rather go for a run than ride my bike any day of the week, but the FIRST Marathon Training Plan I’m following calls for twice weekly cross training. Tonight just so happened to be a cross training night…
Luckily the Tour de France is currently in progress which helps my motivation to get out and […]
Cross Training: CYCLEROBX Indoor Biking
Crucial to the success of the FIRST Marathon Training Plan is the twice weekly cross training aspect of the program. The idea is to supplement the three Key Run Running Workouts with non-impact cross training activities (cycling and swimming for example) to (a) allow complete recovery between running workouts and (b) add to your level […]
