cycling
Ride/Run
I followed up a quick blow out on the bike (6 miles in 17:57) with another run on the soccer fields at the PAAC. Started with two easy miles (7:52, 7:37) and then ran a couple of miles where I jogged the length of a soccer pitch and “sprinted” the widths (7:15, 7:00). Finished off [...]
Cross Training: Exercise Bikes
One thing I haven’t been doing during my training for the Richmond Marathon on November 15th is cross training. Despite several years dabbling in the triathlon world I’m not really into swimming, but I must admit, I do enjoy a good indoor bike workout. Typically I ride my triathlon bike on an indoor resistance trainer, [...]
One Hour Brick
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 by 3 x 8 minutes of higher intensity cycling, with a minute recovery after each 8 minute block. 1. 1st 8 minutes – easy gear, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
