{"id":15465,"date":"2014-01-20T06:58:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T06:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15465"},"modified":"2014-01-20T06:58:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T06:58:49","slug":"busyness-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/busyness-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The busyness continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry for the lack of posts here recently, but I was busy working all week last week<\/a>, invigilating exams at the university, so fitting that in with everything else\u00a0didn’t leave much time for blogging. It also meant that we\u00a0didn’t really do much other than the normal routine.<\/p>\n

A Week of Training Tired<\/h2>\n

I did manage to fit in most of my training though, which started last\u00a0Sunday with a training day in Machynlleth. This was supposed to kick start my training off thanks to a swim with some video analysis, an 80 minute turbo trainer session and a hilly run. It all went well and did set me up for the week, even if I am still feeling fairly fat. I was quite tired in a number of session through the week though, mainly due to the early mornings, late nights and trying to cram everything in I think rather than any real\u00a0physical fatigue from the training.<\/p>\n

Weekend Training<\/h2>\n

We were fairly busy all weekend as well. I hadn’t managed to do any training on Friday due to work commitments so had a bike ride and a run to do. As usual for this time of year I did the ride indoors on my turbo trainer thanks to a TrainerRoad<\/a> workout called Ragged. It was actually quite a hard ride consisting of\u00a05 zero-recovery, 14-minute steps from 60-100% FTP. As is often the case with such workouts I was feeling it buy the 2nd interval and thinking\u00a0that there would be no chance that I complete it. But, after 80 minutes in the saddle I was done and I had hit the targets throughout.<\/p>\n

\"Ragged\"<\/a>

TrainerRoad Workout -Ragged<\/p><\/div>\n

I then had a 40 minute run to do but after a long week and a hard turbo trainer session I was feeling pretty tired and it ended up being one of my slowest runs ever.<\/p>\n

Sunday Run<\/span><\/h2>\n

Sunday was another busy day as well. It started early as usual with a run from Machynlleth. I\u00a0was out on my own in the early morning darkness, armed with my head torch as a guide around a nice hilly trail run. It was pretty damp and soggy underfoot in the hills and I fell over a few times when not quite spotting boggy areas in the dim light, but it was a good long run with some lovely scenery. The views from the top with the mist in the valleys and the lights of Machynlleth just shining through it were amazing. It was pretty much a long slog up to the top, followed by a long descent and then some flat running tagged onto the end to make it up to a 1 hour 15 minute run, covering just over 9 miles.<\/span><\/p>\n