Had some trouble with my training plan. I started it four weeks ago, which is fine, but I set it out to do some in the morning and some at night. Basically I was trying to train for two events simultaneously. Big mistake. If there is one thing I'm not (apart from sane) it's a morning person.

So, I've restructured my training plan, take a look at the table below, see my life for the next eight weeks. (I had to put it as a picture, the table was just too big for this layout):

The hill running is up the side of a pub called the Grouse in Birch Vale (if anyone lives locally) and is a run up the hill for two or three minutes as the plan states and then a slow jog down for 45 seconds to get the heart rate back down to at least 140 bpm.

The hill and sprints for the bike are on the same hill but there is a flat road in front of the hill that I try (and the word try is very appropriate) to sprint up and down before doing a hill climb, descending and then doing another pairs of sprints and a climb again.

I did my first full days ride, with the new back pack,on Saturday (24th March). It was OK, I broke my saddle. I had it positioned too far back, I sat on it suddenly at the bottom of a roller and snapped the support tube that clamps to the seat post. It was still clamped so I road home on the road but I'd done 50km all off-road from New Mills to Fairholmes at Derwent Reservoir, so not bad, and good time, I averaged 10.5 km/hr and an all off-road route.

The pack is comfy and there really is loads of room, this weekend I'm going to try it fully laden, we'll see how I go.

STUMBLE

One more thing, I've added a stumble button to the page, give it a click and register the page, if you haven't joined stumble do so, it'll absorb all of your free time and devour your soul, but other than that it's quite good really.

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