The latest trend at swimming at the moment are these Tempo Timers things which you stick in your cap and they beep in time to your swimming, or what is actually supposed to happen is that they beep and you swim in time to them. Haydn has set some ridiculously slow warm up tempos where we are only take 22 strokes per minute - not so good for weaklings like me where the longer I try and glide for the lower my elbow drops down. I think they are quite good for keeping my stroke count up for sprint/VO2 sets but jury is still out for the easy stuff. I think I will be forced to purchase one of these soon so I'll keep you posted.
My little muppet swimskin is currently being sewn together in the Blue Seventy factory so will be with me sometime next month - exciting!
BIKE
Not much has been happening on the bike in the last two weeks due to an annoying cough and me being sensible (or being a wuss?) and not training through it. So I missed the Sunday ride the week before and didn't do much last week. We are currently being inner-city apartment dwellers which reduces my commuting time by quite a bit but is quite nice on those rainy afternoons where I only have a 3 minute bike from the ferry as opposed to 30 minutes.
I said goodbye to a good friend last week - RooRoo and I parted company and it now has a new owner and lives in Whakatane. It was sad to see it go but the extra cash paying off my credit card made it a bit easier. I was a bit disturbed that they put it on a bike rack on the back of the car (RooRoo's first time on a bike rack...) and then it absolutely pissed down with rain about five minutes later which made me feel sorry for RooRoo getting all wet.
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| Stocking up for winter. Spot the odd one out... |
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| RooRoo I will miss you but I do love MONEY |
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| Commuting on a nice day nom nom nom |
RUN
Not much running happened during the week of the relentless coughing but I did do a fun 23km (!) run last weekend which was a fundraiser for my friend Amy who is doing the Badwater Ultramarathon in July. It was basically a self guided run of the volcanoes of Auckland with a few different distances. I had planned to do a couple of longer runs building up to it but only managed an hour so ended up increasing my long run milegae by about 100% - none of this 10% crap.... Jared Razzle and I ran with our friends Claire and Two Piece and the km's flew by as we tootled along and chatted. We went up four volcanoes but was maybe supposed to do six, it was supposed to be 21km so by the time we went up the fourth we had all had enough. There was an aid station up the top of One Tree Hill with coke and Em's cookie bites and other delicious treats which were all very well recieved. Not sure I would have made the last 5km without that stop to be honest.
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| Helpers helping themselves |
Leggies actually held up pretty well aside from a few DOMS which crept up the next day so all ready to get serious about running...
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| Murfy and her new friend Simon the apartment cat |
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