i run therefore i am

June 11, 2007

No, I don’t want to borrow your bike

Filed under: Uncategorized — emruns @ 5:48 pm

Water Running
A good ‘un today
Got to pool at about 11:25am, waited on park bench outside pool for Jo, saw Jo arrive and then turn back to car, presumably the OCD need to ensure door was indeed locked :lol:

Headed to change room, got kit off and put on the HRM chest strap Jo lent me, Jo gets her gear back on and goes back out to car to retrieve floaty belt.

Bathers on and ready to go start walking out to the pool, divert Jo in direction of pool and away from men’s toilets, regale her with amusing story of me accidently using the mens loo at a Ferry Terminal in Greece (aghhh, the horror is still with me to this day)

Eventually we make it into the water, oops, Jo has her floaty belt on inside out, OK, we are ready to go……..

5 minutes warm up
8 by 90 seconds hard with 30 second easy recoveries
2 minute easy
8 by 90 seconds hard
5 minutes cool down (except we did 7 minutes)

There was another guy in the pool doing a spot of DWR as well, the first time I had seen someone else besides me and Jo. I think we showed him up though, he only seemed to stick with it for about 5 minutes.

Thanks to the lend of a HRM chest strap that does not do it’s ‘nana underwater I got some decent readings today. For most of the 90 second intervals I was able to average about 75% and max up to 80% on some reps, pretty pleased with that effort considering you lose a bit underwater.

Love a good protest
These guys and gals found an interesting way of protesting against oil dependancy in London this weekend.

Just hope the weather was favourable.

And that they remembered to wipe the seats down with some dettol afterwards.

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