Forgive me, Father ...#

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:19:01 +0000

.. it has been a week since my last confession^Woutpuring.

• Saturday: route check for Stroll at faster-than-usual speed (I was the only one there, so it was Dan-paced), plus some lengths of Serpentine Road, plus a few halfhearted crossover exercises. Knee fine. Although I did the whole thing wearing my HRM chest strap, forgot to actually put the watch bit on.
• Sunday: Mike's video review, Stroll, Halloween Skate
• Tuesday: Route check for LFNS - for which I did remember my HRM. Based on that (average 135 bpm, but that included a couple of uphills I decided to attack just to liven things up) and my subjective effort indication, I think it's somewhere in the "easy aerobic" range.
• Wednesday: one-legged skating. I'm sure my right leg used to be better than my left, but I find it much easier to balance on the left one. Body position, again.
• Friday: LFNS bike riding, which has left me absolutely knackered. Maybe it was a bad idea not to eat beforehand or maybe there's something wrong with the bike that's making it more effort than usual, but there were a couple of points at which I was really feeling like throwing up.
• Saturday (today): rest. Several muscles sore - as is knee again, which is a bit annoying
• Sunday (tomorrow) - long slow skate (though without the technique intervals) - 80km or so, in the New Forest

Skating-related but not actually on skates, please take a moment to admire the new LFNS Week on Wheels archive - if you could see the grossly inefficient hacky code behind it, you wouldn't. And if the content you see there looks vaguely reminiscent in places of the text you see here, yes, I did have a hand in writing some of it.