Training update, hiking, swimming, cycling
Time for a training update. As most of you know, I’ve had Bronchitis the last 3 weeks and really only felt fully fit again on Saturday in the shop bike ride (60kms). We have some fast guys on board now (eg Rod Mejias, Luke Hardy, Robbie (Sth African dude), Richard Kelly, Guy Pritchard, Brendan McSweeney,Grant Alexander, Vaughan, Paul Prottey, Peter Clark, Todd Panietz, the list just goes on)Its getting hard just to stay on with this ride but I’m determined to get a little edge back with my fitness. I was thinking that this time last year I was around 77 to 78kgs in preparation for Ironman Western Australia and now am 81 to 82kgs. Takes a decent effort to get those kilograms off. They say with every kilogram overweight you are, for each one you lose, you can retrieve around 20mins in a marathon run time. Worth thinking about!
Last Thursday’s running training was great. I felt really good after this and even though its just the one serious session a week, my 4mins per km aim isn’t that far away. Congrats to all of you who did the City to Surf, especially the first timers.
Looks like BFSR Team Force will have a full complement of 9 riders for this weeks Gran Fondo at York. Best of luck guys, flat terrain but over 100kms. I have to coach Matt’s U18 soccer final at Embleton this Sunday so I miss the Fondo again!!
Swimming to start soon. I’ve been sent the Aussi Masters open water swimming program. Its amazing how sunny days help out with that decision to start swimming again. Dee and I went for a hike on Sunday from the Kalamunda Northern Terminus of the Bibbulmun Track. Just for a couple of hours but it was great hiking weather. We are looking to get a drop off at Brookton Hwy (Bibbulmun Track) and then hike the 70kms back to Kalamunda across 2 or 3 days.
Coming events include the Freo Half Marathon on 21 Sept,Bluff Knoll hike/camp also end Sept long weekend, Freo Fun Run on 5 Oct, Brooks Marathon on 19 Oct, Anaconda early November and IMWA in early Dec. (With Bluff Knoll, Dee and I and several of her mates will campout and tackle some hill climbing) Best of luck to those with around 12 weeks of IMWA training left. And there’s a few of you !!
Also to those dusting off the cobwebs for another triathlon season just around the corner. I think we’ll see more people on board for Raf’s Front Runner coaching sessions. A new block of these starts in October…..and you have me guarding the back of the pack to make sure you put in an honest effort!!
Now if I can muster up enough interest for the spin sessions, then the plan is to revive them again at Pure Fitness gym in Canning Vale. I was going to ask our ‘uber’ cyclist Ryan in for a few cameos but its not really in his neck of the woods. We’d need around 12 regular starters however I have a few here at work already. Let me know quickly because the sooner we can get the twelve, the sooner I can start. It would basically be a 7pm evening start but I’d be able to let the group pick whichever day suits. At $5 a session it would be a pretty cheap way of fitting in 2hrs worth of training into just one hour.Anyway, just putting it out there at this stage. Looking for to start in October.
CHRISTO