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Simply let me know what was on your training log for last weekend from a workout perspective. Quick and easy!
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I did some intervals on the bike on Saturday and on Sunday I did a gym session with weights.
Unfortunilty some ‘leg’ issues…hopping to run ASAP again!
90 minutes on Trainer Road with Hangover, the movie and a fatty trail ride with my LBS…Two PIYO workouts mixed in there as well.
A nice steady bike ride and some hiking in southern England.
swimm drills all week long
Swimming with my children then run 45′ = 9 km . Same on Sunday without swim. Love my VivoActive…
After an SI joint sprain, just easing into things with light ROM weightlifting and some Concept 2 rowing.
Saturday bike intervals, Sunday crossfit workout.
I did a workout at the gym with Run, RPM, Sprint RPM and weights to prepare Paris half-marathon and Paris marathon. See you there may be !!!
Ugh, I got a big ol’ goose egg for training this past weekend, minus a nice hike on Sunday.
My Training log this weekend was a two and a half ( 26,5 Km) trail run in the Soignes Forest in Brussels. A nice preparation for my first Marathon in 8 days.
Ran a cross country half marathon – it hurt!
Saturday short pool swim after 6 months of shoulder recovery and Sunday 10k trail run.
Spent some quality time with trainer road
Weekend away with the my Wife and Kids so none! However credit in the bank now for some early bike and swim sessions this weekend.
3 hour tempo ride
Zwift! Easy ride on Saturday and 20-minute over/under intervals on Sunday.
60 mile ride and 17 mile run. love the desert weather
Running 10 K and 50 KM cycle ride!
Saturday I looked over the kids (burned a couple of thousand calories) and Sunday I cooked to recover my calories (in order to prepare for the 7ich workouts this week)
Tempo run, Mile Intervals, LongRun, Yoga
2.5h zone 2 on saturday
3,5h zone 2 on Sunday both done on the trainer.
Two good road rides one long and the other for intervals.
Every sunday, the team meets for strength training in a gym. Very hard trainings, yet motivating 🙂
A bike ride on the High Peak Trail with my son on Saturday followed by a trot up the Middlewood Way ending with 7km of race pace running down the A6 on Sunday.
just a short run
Unfortunately no workouts for me. Was recovering from post V procedure. Three kids are enough.
MTB & Yoga, Saturday. Turbo & S&C Sunday
Did a Saturday run at the gym and a Zwift workout on Sunday.
Running through a local hilly area to train for my trip to Nepal in April!
On saturday 2 session day. In the morning weightlifting with a crosstrainer transfer power. In the afternoon 1 hour of crosstrainer.
On sunday 1h and a half of running in the treadmill with the trail backpack fully loaded.
13 hrs of biking, 4 hrs of running, 2 hrs of weights
Sufferfest videos (with trainerroad) back to back sat and sun to finish my first tour of sufferlandria ?
My weekend starts at thurday with a 112km ride because my wife was off with the kids, and ended on saturday night with a 31km run by exploring (for me) new trails when my family come back home.
Short nightride on my local mountain. Thanks for organising the giveaway!
Ride with the kids, then solo century
I spent my time last Weekend on my bike.
On Saturday a short Loop of 50km. On Sunday 72km. All on the road. Weather was in Bavaria to warm to spent the time on the trainer 🙂
saturday was my usual rest day and on sunday i did a hilly 15 mile run
10k run on the treadmill Sat and snow shovelling on Sun 🙂
Took part in a 50k race as part of build up to an ultra in May.
On Saturday I did gym and swimming, on sunday one hour indoor cycling lead by instructor.
Flat out 75km bunch ride on Saturday; tempo 175km solo ride on Sunday
90 mins of intervals on the bike on Saturday follwed by an easy 12km jog on Sunday.
I did a long ED run and a small interval on bike…..
Rest on Saturday and 6 km cross country running on Sunday
A couple of easy jogs during the week and then a half marathon on Sunday.
Last training week involved two painful turbo sessions with trainer road and sufferfest and a club ride out in the Wicklow mountains
Sadly, I’m injured. Though I had planned an hour session on the trainer, there was no workout for me.
Last weekend I did a tempo run, HIIT Intervals, and an easy hike.
I did a run on saterday and a bike ride on sunday in the rain
Workout in the kitchen, prepared desserts for the wife’s restaurant’s valentines night, so no other activities for me!
Running in the porig raun.
Riding 3h fartlek on saturday and closing my week end with 2h ride which include 20 x 30″/30″ intervals on sunday !
Easy recovery on monday :p
Long run on the trails and lots of core work
Sunday morning 13 mile long run
12K snowshoe run on Fri, rest Sat and 4 games of Ultimate Frisbee on snowshoes Sun.
On friday I did some core & stability training combined with Power training
On saturday I did some indoortraining on low HR 115 with rpm 100
On sunday MTB ride of about 45km track in cold & mud trying to keep HR lower than 165.
(And afterwards a nice Duvel to conclude the weekend 🙂 )
Broken collarbone so basically eating + Netflix… :-/
Saturday 6.5km Run (incorporating locsl park run)
Sunday 650m vertical hike up Flinders peak and back
Century ride!
I did a 14 mile training run in zero degree wind chill. This weekend the forecast is for the fifty’s. I love spring.
Found any excuse to get in the saddle Sunday with the warmer weather. Ran some errands, got in a hard 20-mins testing out s a new shorter stem on the TT bike, then a cool down with my wife and son before settling in for some movies. All in all a great Val.
Managed a 90min ride but due to injury I was reduced to volunteering at the finish line for the major local 10km event for the year.
I got through my weeks training by Friday so I had the weekend free ..yahoo!
But then my missus saw me with all that free time and assigned random extra jobs..doh!
Two indoors Spinning sessions and one outdoor run.
Still waiting for better weather so that I can get out on the bike again!
10 km run on Friday night (had to do something on valentines)
32 km run on Saturday morning
105 km cycle on Sunday morning
2 km swim Sunday afternoon
Deep sleep Sunday night.
Given the weather was cold I stuck to a limited regime of running 13+18km and let the biking and kayaking sessions wait until ice is not a factor. I hope 2016 will make amends for the almost complete absence of summer we suffered through in 2015!
120 Min Turbo ride with 4 x 12 mins @ zone 4 Watts
Followed by 15 min brick run @ defcon 4
finally setup my bike indoor trainer and spent 4 hours on it on Saturday. So much fun!
Swi, swa swimming on Saturday and sunday.
Did a bike run of 30km to prepare for the upcoming season. Also started hiking more so I can pick up actual running later this month after a long injury.
Workouts? I thought this was the off season still? Why are you pressuring me to exercise!!!
Mainly some DIY on the house :(. Training is limited to lunch time during the week at the moment!
Friday: walk 5 miles, run 5 miles
Saturday: walk 2 miles, run 4.5 miles
Sunday: stationary bike 10.5 miles
Monday: run 4.5 miles
Ran an easy 5m on Saturday then 9m tempo on Sunday. Oh, does shoveling snow count? Did a lot of that too.
Went to the gym twice, I hate squats. Also training for a 5k for March, so been doing speed workouts and also had a weekend long-run (12 km).
Mostly bike… One intense ride with intervals and one long and slow recovery ride.
A workout in both Richmond and Watopia on Zwift all from the comfort of my basement!
Saturday – The Hunted Sufferfest on the turbo
Sunday – 4 hours steady ride with full out efforts up Titsy, Toys and Ide Hill.
My training involved installing oak stair treads. Forearm work (air nailer) and foot strengthening (standing on half-finished steps). Nice weather hopefully will lead to a long run for this coming weekend.
It was a good week ;-0
SUMMARY
Total Duration 8:11
Bike time 6:40
Bike Miles 100
Running TIME 30m
Rum miles 2.70
Strength 1:01
TSS 413.5
2.5hr run in the rain on saturday – so much fun.. then 4hrs of hills on the bike on sunday.
I went for an hour long session of hometrainer on Saturday, then an easy jog (10k, 50min) on Sunday afternoon.
playing giant jenga on a family trip away.
Did two cross-county ski outings of 18k and 20k.
We both did the Heartbreaker Adventure Race
Last weekend I had planned a 60K bike ride on saturday and a 16K run on sunday. Could not do the ride becouse of a neck pain that would not let me even try to turn my head from friday morning, but I managed to do the sunday run. No other valentine’s activities this year…
I did 70 minutes short bike intervals on the hometrainer and 70 minutes run (cut down to 25 minutes due to running right after eating).
Saturday:
Morning Masters swim practice which involved a 1500yd snake swim through the whole pool
Easy 3mi treadmill run
Sunday:
2-hour long ride from TrainerRoad(Matanuska)
120 minutes slightly hungover TrainerRoad intervals on Sunday.
DIY, the little one & family duties got in the way this weekend, but I made up for it with a tempo run on Monday & hitting the pool on Tuesday morning.
Ran the Austin Marathon on Valentine’s day. This was my first go at the 26.2 and I learned a lot along the way. Thankfully now I get to ride my bike a lot more.
Taper back week for 26.2 training so only a 13 mile run
simply: it was a desaster. None of the planned workouts were held… 🙂
One hour of strength training and a 10 km run (+numerous walks with the dog).
Not as active as I would have liked.
More than a new words, hmm….does “Tour of Sufferlandria” count then?
last week i did a 2 running session one of 17km and other on tracks of 9km with blocs.
and i also did swim and bike session for a total of 8h in the week 🙂
tks
Long run on the treadmill and intervals on the bike trainer because it was ridiculously cold
Saturday – Trip to Belgium with girlfriend.
Sunday – 18 Mile Run
An ankle sprain is stopping me from running what I want. Hope to start training again this week.