Shortest Day if Triathlon - Dec 21

So to kick ff the winter campaign in full earnest we got together and decided to exercise from dawn to dusk on the shortest day of the year. This day also happened to bring with it 30cm of snow which I will get to later.

6hours 28 Minutes on the bike and run

bike 1 hr 3 min 48 sec

Trainer Ride - Low Intensity

run 40 min 9 sec, 6.8 km

Snow and Slush

bike 2 hr 18 min 9 sec

Trainer ride

run 2 hr 13 min 28 sec, 18.0 km

Snow and Slush - Some Walking

bike 14 min 32 sec

Trainer Cool Down

Snow and Slush

So biking was ok as was indoors in the spinner, generally pretty much cruising especially knowing what was involved on the run. Running during a snow storm is like one long speed workout even though you are running slower than a recovery run. First run involved some cross trianing with helping push out a Mercedes c230 onto a side road and 1 foot deep hill climbs up QE hill.

Hit the Wall

Second run was the first time I have bonked on a run in a whie, after having slip and slided around for for 90 minutes my body started to shut down on all the icey and snowy bits. Funny thing was everytime we hit a shovelled sidewalk the feeling of speed was fantastic.

To Finish the Day

A beer mile was held, but more on that in the race report. All in all was a pretty good day and one of many 6 to 8 hour training days to come inthe coming months.

Snowed In

Have a heap to post over the next few days as have been busy with the whole Christmas thing and the like. Have just finished the relaunch of the Pacific Spirit Tri Club website so will have some time to get some rhythm back on the blog.

Plan for the weekend is for a 15km run in the morning followed by a swim and potentially a 17km commute run in the afternoon.

Well the aim is this week is to do the following on the blog;

• Post Shortest Day Training Report with a Race Report on the innaugral solsitce beer mile
• Give an update on a training in the snow and ice across winter
• Update the race plan for 2009 on the web