biking

after the slight biking debacle... well, ok, it wasnt a debacle, it was just totally knackering, at the weekend, I have decided to get out and pwn myself on the bike on a regular basis.
Today, circuits of greenwich hill, managed 5 times, not the greatest, especially as I kept getting whupped by a guy on a racer.
cranked my way up the hill and then over the grass at the top, (found biking on grass especially difficult at the weekend, so extra resistance must be found to practice against), and back down a dodgy path, and up again.
did a 6:26, 6:37, 6:44, 7:04 and 7:30.
the gears were really playing up toward the end, and Im going to have to sort them out...
grrr.

Hill training. 23/11/08

Rob came over- after a few glasses of wine on the friday evening, really a heavy long day wasnt going to happen. 

Got up late, mooched around and then headed out to Greenwich park for a bit of hill (or as much of a hill as you can get in London) training. 

The idea was to keep the rhythm up as we went up steep hills, not to stoop, and to keep good posture as we climbed.

There is quite a good, short steep hill over to the right of the park as you come in the bottom gate, so using our inov8s to good effect, we launched up the hill- a rep took about 1.30 or so with peak heart rate coming out at 167 for me. Then a break as we walked down the hill to the starting point, and did it again. 7 reps, up the same slope, but varying routes up it. 

After the short, sharp hill drills, we went on to long hills- well, a convex profile instead of concave, and did 4 reps up that, and finished with a jog home. 

All in all a useful, aerobic session, which was pretty much stealth knackering than totally mindcrushingly knackering.