1ST BIG WEEK ALMOST OVER

As stated previously this is my first of two big weeks before a rest week. So far so good. Have gotten miles in by cycling to and from work. A recap of the last 5 days have been as follows:

Monday 3rd August

Swam in Belvedere in the morning. Tough lactate threshold session of just under 2,000 metres. A lot of it done at pace. The session lasted for about an hour.

In the evening I cycled home with Shaun from work and got in 80 mins on bike.

Tuesday 4th August

Cycled into work by myself. Meet Andrew from Swords CC at airport and picked up pace all the way into work. Up to that was just taking it easy. Ran for an hour at lunchtime. Had run for 40 mins before I meet Shaun, and had planned to go longer but worked called and had to head back to office.

In the evening time I did the run session with Leewa and the regulars from Skerries. Lot of short sprints and lasted for about an hour with warm up and cool down.

Wednesday 5th August

Swam in Belvedere, again doing another lactate threshold session. And if your reading this Emma, I did beat you in the last sprint!!!

Ran easy at lunchtime for 57 mins. Almost three hours of running in 2 days and felt tired.

Then cycled to Corduff after work as I was marshalling for the Swords CC club league race. When over, I cycled home. Total time spent on bike was 90 mins.

Thursday 6th August

Cycled into work. Meet Colm Laverty on way in and he was flying. Managed to get a good workout off him for part of the way. Total time was 80 mins.

2 hours of football in the evening rounded the day off.

Friday 7th August

Cycled in with Paul Deans, Shaun and Steve Hurrell. This was done at a very brisk pace and ended up getting 90 mins cycling done before work.

Plan to cycle home later today, and with kids and wife away I plan a big weekend of training.