Category: Fitness

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Isle of Man End 2 End

As well as signing up for the Dyfi Enduro 2010 yesterday I managed to get an entry for the Manx E2E, or to give it its full name the Isle of Man End 2 End Challenge. It’s another Mountain Bike race, this time, as its name would suggest, from one end of the Isle of...

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Training Tuesday

Tuesdays seem to be my day of training at the moment, although I’m not sure that 3 session in a day is necessarily  good thing. I’ve just done a Turbo Trainer session that felt OK. Either I’m getting better or the calibration is a little out as I keep increasing the wattage for each session...

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Turbo Trainer Intervals – When will it end?

I didn’t think I’d be able to do that! Yesterday, despite still having a bit of a cold, I did my 3:2 minute intervals workout on the turbo trainer. Last time I did this workout on Feb 1st I did the hard efforts at 280 Watts and wrote: My legs were feeling it come the...

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Exercising whilst ill

I’ve had a bit of a cold lately, it’s nothing too bad just a sore throat, headache and bunged up a bit, but considering what happened last time I exercised whilst ill I’ve been taking it easy. Last time I ended up getting pericarditis and spending several days on the cardiac ward at Bronglais Hospital....

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Mawddach Goldrush – More Preparation Needed

Only one month to go until the Mawddach Goldrush so I thought I’d better get some longer rides in. That was the plan for Saturday, but the surf was going off so I had to go for a surf at Ynyslas first. The surf turned out to be pretty much as good as it gets...

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Time for a Rest Day

The trouble with trying ti get fit is that it can become a little more than a habit and become an obsession. You end up trying to do more in order to improve, but in the end just do too much. Resting is very much an important part of any training schedule and after last...

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More Improvement – Turbo Trainer Workouts

I’m enjoying this and seem to be getting better. I did the same workout as last week, 3:2 minute intervals on the turbo trainer. Last week I did them at 270 Watts with the final one at 280 Watts and my heart rate hit 164bpm on the last one. This week I increased the wattage...

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Improvements at last – Turbo Trainer Session

It looks as though my hard work on the turbo trainer may be paying off as I seem to be making some improvements. I did my 1 minute interval session yesterday, where after a warm up I try to do 7 repetitions of 1 minute hard and 1 minute easy. After a little bit of...

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3:2 Minute Interval Turbo Trainer Workout

It’s always good to mix things up a little on the Turbo Trainer. Also, I had coffee with Jon the other day, my friend who did the various tests on me at the Sports & Exercise Department at Aberystwyth University. Whilst chatting about training he said that the session to do out of the ones...

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Some Things Never Change

I changed the rear tyre on the bike I use on my turbo trainer recently. The bike I use is pretty old. I had it 20 years ago and at the time it was pretty good. Top of the range Reynolds 753 steel frame with Campagnolo groupset, nice wheels and all the trimmings… However by...