training drinking sleeping oh and uni aswell

[koalafish]

thought i would change the name of my blog a bit while we are here.
I think i missed tri-talk going biscuits brown, when did that happen?
anywho i have been training hard and doing lots of it. this week for example is 25 hours.
swam monday and here is the session:
600 swim pull kick
200 as 25 fists 25 swim
2 x 100 drill
6 x 50 swim/build
16 x 25 pull band 3 fast 1 easy on 30secs
300 swim concentrating on cadence 1 min rest
16 x 25 band 3 hard 1 easy on 30 secs
300 swim concentrating on cadence 1 min rest
16 x 25 pull band 3 fast 1 easy
300 swim concentrating on cadence 1 min rest
8 x 50 kick (2x70, 1x60, 1x80)x2
200 warm down

then had a 1 hour run with pick ups, ran well and feel like i am getting better.

then tues had swim:
400 fc-bk
300 pull, 200 hungarian paddles, 100 catchup - build
2x(2x50 drill, 1x50 build on 60)
2x(4x200 pullband on 3mins, 5x100 swiom on 1.25, 3x100 on 1.20)
6x50 (37.5,25,12.5 fast)x2 on 60
8x50 kick on 60
200 fc-bk warm down

then 1 hour run with 25-30mins tempo around the outwoods (semi x-country)

then yesterday had:
3 hour bike ride with cycling club, average speed 23mph when i took my turn 25mph for 25mins hurt like hell, cyclists are very good on the bike and are also very fit.

and also had a 4km swim. can't remember waht i did exactly but there was alot of band work in thier.

then today had 2 hour bike with 8x2mins HARD
and then got a 45min run later on aswell.

uni is sooooooo much fun and going away witht the army on weekends is awesome went and did section attacks and we were just shooting anything that moved in the killing zone and it was awesome (no animals were hurt in the process of the exercise although many paper and metal targets were destroyed with a mass of bullets!!!)

thats about it from me today.

[koalafish]

next issue.

right well today i have a run and a swim, ran already and felt good going for a swim later and am going to work on open water technique. been talking to my coach alot recently about my performance and stuff and so far races defo for next year are windsor elite and london elite which are both going to be huge eye openers.

At the momment my main problem is trying to fit in the ammount of training i want to do and the work for lectures etc and be in a state where i am not falling asleep in lectures as that is not good. only done it in a couple.

has anybody heard about the SBR and F3E races next year?

[foggy]

Just fall asleep in lectures mate - if they are anything like mine were then they will all be dull

[paull]

A super fit teenager discovers beer & how to fire weapons...

What could possibly go wrong?

Does this new coach ever mention the word rest?

Jokes aside, glad to hear it is going well.

Take care, Paul.

[levoleurdefruits]

Noooo Koala. Lasy time I checked your post you were a Methodist-abstenious swim monster with tri aspirations for London 2012, now it sounds like you are just an old soak like me???

[koalafish]

how am i an old soak at 19 and am i not still a swimming monster? to be fair those sets are not as beasty as they used to be but just you wait til next week, got some nice ones coming, 60x50's and 30x100's all to come in the next week.
what is this old soak malarky about.

paul, rest is involved. i have 25+ hours training and 16/18 hours lectures that leaves a good 5 days recovery in the week (lol) no he does understand but i do have easy days and some days it will just be a run. at the moment we are building up so i have a great base to work on especially with running.

hopefully have a good season and i am hoping to do some awesome times but for that i need to train my ass off, quite literally, i am 73kg at the momment and i am going to see if being lighter works better for me by doing some time trials, if it doesn't then back to the gym and put the muscle back on.

[hoops]

koala what are u banging out today i swear i saw u do a mediocre 6 min 400m last w/e haha

[koalafish]

well hoops, i am doing a lil bit better this week. was very tired that weekend from swimming on the friday and boxing night lol. are you a young strpping navigating genius by any chance?

this week i am going a lil bit faster today had a nice swim sesh of 1.5 hours of 30x100 10 pull paddles band, 10 pull band, 5 band, 5 swim. then a 2.5 hour ride.

then this week got some testing which is going to be emotional.

[koalafish]

ok todays training:
4.4k swim
400 spks (swim pull kick swim)
200 build with cadence
400 drill-build
60x25 band on 30 1min rest ofter every 10
400 warm down

run,
5mins at 13kph
4mins at 13kph 6mins of 30 20kph 30 off
5mins 13kph 5mins 30 20kph 30 off
at this point i chundered due to feeling like rubbish at the momment. then came back with:
10mins 12kph
1min 13
4mins 30 20kph 30 off
10mins cool down.

then ate and felt a bit better. to make up for not completing run set went and did circuit training was rubbish i felt weak and tired. came back had a shower, ate a bit more.

now watching a bit of one tree hill and some videos i made last year to help motivate me. at the momment my main problem is having the motivation and attitude to succeed. i know i can do well this season i want to do well this season and have to do well this season. but it is just convincing my self that all this training is worth it.

Been set loads of coursework at the momment aswell got 1 bit for friday and then some more for next week and then 4 more for when we get back after crimbo and then got a test next week and i am no looking forward to it.

tomorrow i am doing some sweat mapping research which means running for an hour and have pads placed on my body in different places. i also have 3 lectures a tutorial and a swim and run aswell. early start so i can get this coursework done and get a mate who is good at maths to look through it to make sure it is alright.

i never thought i would get back to the hectic way of life i had at welbeck, catching sleep when i can and working around training although many say it should be the other way round, i want to do well so much it seems to be taking up alot of me, this wednesday is the last time i will be drinking and if it wasn't my coaches birthday celebrations i would have stopped already.

will update tomorrow