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The winner will get a $600 credit to CleverTraining.com, my most excellent partner in this giveaway crime. By supporting the site through Clever Training you also can save 10% on basically anything they sell. If you win, you can use that credit for anything from the new Garmin Fenix3 HR to a GoPro Hero4 Black to a water bottle to the PowerTap G3 Hub Power Meter (all of which are under $600!), or heck, even towards a new trainer. Whatever warms your heart.
How to enter:
Simply let me know what was on your training log for last weekend from a workout perspective. Quick and easy!
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My training log last weekend: I did running intervals on the track (8x 800m, 6x 400m, 2x 200m), strength training (core, pullups, burpees etc.) and flexibility training (stretching, blackroll etc.)
For me it was a good training week end :
Saturday : 30min running (6,5K split 30/30) + 2h indoor biking (RPM)
Sunday : more than 25K running in Paris followed by 1h indoor biking
35k long run, was stupid enough to run way too fast and trashed my legs, still hurting – a good giveaway would put me back on track!
Two days of hiking in the Austrian mountains.
22 mile, 10 mile and 35 mile training rides on my Allez and Travel Trac Fluid Trainer (recommended by you!)
Woke up early on Sunday and did a solo 65 mi mixed terrain loop, concluded with the best espresso in town.
Training Ride for Gran Fondo New York. Only 20 miles on the bike in Manhattan. Had to cut the ride short be to sub-zero (F!) temperatures.
Aimed at a LSD on trails with the new 2-3″ inches of snow but my lower back and the -20°C + high winds got the best of me…
Saturday rain – only stretching.
Sunday more rain – so convinced myself to get on the rollers for a FTP session. Up 10W since last time – yay! Still not a reasonable level – boo. Oh well, heading slowly in the right direction…
Sufferfest Nine Hammers! And TrainerRoad Sweetspot Training
Short, slow run and lots of stretching as I slowly nurse myself back to health.
I finished my longest run to date – 30 km. The marathon is my next goal (maybe this saturday :)
I was in Mumbai and did a 30 minute swim session and a 30 minute gym workout.
Running around Saville Row saturday searching for a wedding suit, then turbo trainer sunday (FTP test). something for everyone :)
Brutal here last weekend temps in the single digits. That meant the gym, treadmill and weight training.
I´ll use a Monday to Sunday week…
Monday
13 km run
About 10 km walk
Tuesday
4,41 km walk
Wednesday
13,55 km run
about 2,5 km walk
30 km exercise bike
Thursday
about 1,5 km walk
21 km exercise bike
about 1hr gym work
Friday
15 km run
about 1,5 km walk
12 km exercise bike
about 30 min gym work
Saturday
35 km exercise bike
about 2km walk
3 km rowing machine
Sunday
Rest
2 hours wet bike run Saturday and a 10k (Odlo Crystal Run) in Paris on Sunday..
I’ve done a 30 Km bike ride followed by a 5Km run.
I did a local 5k with the family and a 2-hour ride on Sunday. Love Florida weather!
Last weekend we had ice and snow, but I managed to sneak in a cold weather 8k run around Duke’s East Campus.
1 short swim, 2 bike rides home from work, 2 runs to work (10.5 miles each way) and a group bike ride with my wife for her birthday on Saturday. Fun week!
Just a quick 6 mile jog on the TM. I’m not signed up for anything right now and I have no current structured workout…need to fix that!
An easy 10K run on Saturday and swimming with the kids on Sunday
I did two rides inside on my computrainer since the weather was so bad. One watching an ergvideo up Luz Ardiden, the other a Sufferfest video, HHNF.
Mark
We ran a 5k on Saturday and then an easy long ride on Sunday.
I “ran” the DC Cupid’s Undie Run on Saturday!
9 mile long run and rest day.
I was pretty lazy last weekend and just did a 5 mile run with my daughter.
Last week I was on vacation. I run 9k in the forest next to a beach in Buenos Aires Argentina
I did just one short strength session and was visited by my brother. We had to cancel the planned long run because of an injury he got.
25 miles on the Zwift…25 miles outside (didn’t happen got snowed in)
weight-room & bike on Sat, light cardio on Sun, 6 miler on President’s Day
a 10k at my parent´s place – first time in over 20 years that I ran there.
7,5k at home before breakfast in falling snow
and some indoor stuff on the crosstrainer and rowing machine
successful weekend!
Saturday I went for my first painless run in a long time which made me too eager on Sunday so I injured my self again.
I think I’d pick something from the “INJURY RECOVERY” section. Clever training you know ;-)
No training last week, because of injury :(
First run in a month, battling IT band and hip issues.
Zilch. Fun weekend with kids and wife, but start training this week in earnest for Indy mini marathon.
A couple of steady short runs on the road while recovering from a cold…
Minus 25 deg C outside so I spent some time on Zwift.
Last weekend, the weather was bad again so my workouts involved a couple of spin classes, swimming a few sets and spending a horribly long time on the treadmill going absolutely no where. I hate running on the treadmill.
Transitioning from winter towards spring with 40km of nordic skiing on Saturday plus 2 hours of indoor cycling on Sunday.
A 20K double header, 20K Easy Saturday + 20K Easy Sunday
I did threshold run on saturday,2 mins easy and 10 mins faster than race pace repeats. Sunday was long steady run.
i’m what my family calls a sport-addict. Knowing this i do everything in order not to disappoint them :-)
– Calisthenics on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
– Running on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays – at least 10k
– Biking on Mondays, Fridays. MTB or Spinning-Bike – depends on weather conditions
Saturday 2 hour run Sunday 54 miles on the bike.
5 weeks away from my Spring marathon. Today was an easy 7.5 miles in cold & windy Atlanta.
I had 6 runs with one of them being a 5 mile fartlek and the longest being 9.5 miles.
Went to the gym on Saturday. Did some low rep high weight deadlifts, chins and triceps exercises. Finished off with 3×30 sec all out max intervalls with lots of active rest (HIT at it’s best).
Saturday was 8 miles of intervals in the p!ssing rain. Sunday 10 easy miles in the sun.
An easy 7 mi run on Saturday, a recovery week en route to my first marathon!
Last weekend I did some easy swimming on Saturday and then painting and demolition on Sunday.
Since I fell in love with Zwift, outdoor cycling is not a must, yet on the weekends (including last one) I still test my limits outside, attaching this or another segment in my hilly town.
I’m sharpening up for a cross country ski marathon this weekend, so I’ve been doing a lot of short intervals and taking a lot of extra rest!
My legs are sore from big gear starts on trainerroad last night.
I had planned basic trail runs for Sunday and Monday, but we FINALLY had enough snow to cross-country ski. So I did that instead. It was heavenly!
Did 40km cycling on Saturday and rested on Sunday due to a hangover.
Bike intervals, VO2 max repeats 5 x 120%ftp, 3.5 min rest intervals
I did intervals at around 90% ftp on Saturday and an easy 2 hour ride on Sunday.
Being on call/at work for the weekend meant my long run got shunted to last Thursday, 12 miles in the hills of the Peak District, pretty sluggish as it fell the day after my other hard run that week… However, 3 days of ‘rest’ meant that the 20 min recovery run/strength training scheduled for Sunday but bumped to Monday turned in to a fast 5k and a new post-op PR at 21.05! Roll on Manchester Marathon!
With -43 deg C on the thermometer, we stuck with the valentine day workouts…
Non stop jump series on the Rolling Stones concert, together with some swimming on the Uruguayan summer. Thanks
Tour of sufferlandria!
Sat: 10mi on the bike, followed by some weight lifting
Sun: a different type of cardio
16 times the same 5km loop to test the auto lap function of my edge 520 :)
4 x 1.6 mile loops in 20 degree weather. Nothing like a relay marathon on Valentine’s Day!
I did a run on Saturday and bike on Sunday.
Tuesday Swim, Wednesday Run&Core, Thursday Bike (Indoor Trainer), Friday long Swim, Saturday long and easy Bike and Cross Ski on Sunday
I did one HIIT body weight workout and two runs. I’m now in the training to become a professional firefighter and need a lot of sporting equipment.
Light lifting and recovery work after saturday’s 100 mile fat bike race
Did a training triathlon 75m swim, 2,5h spinning session and 12k run.
I went for an 18km run. Need to start preparing a Strongman.
Training consisted of sitting on my ar$e most of the weekend
On saturday I did weight training in the gym and some crossfit. On saturday, I swam for an hour in the swimming pool of my town.
A brick that ended with a 30 min run outside where the wind chill was in the single digits (F). The next day’s run was done indoors :).
Several sets of indoor rowing
I did a 3 hour trainer ride while watching the Olympic marathon trials.
Having serious back issues, no running for me this weekend. But I managed to do some core workout sessions to stretch and regain my strength.
No running, but helping my team out by playing a volleyball-game.
Oh, and hacking into random.org to make sure i win this giveaway :-)
Trainerroad suffering and watching YouTube
16km long run on Saturday followed with a 3km recovery run on Sunday. Since Monday was a holiday for me (Family Day in Ontario) my daughters and I did some bodyweight exercises in the morning followed by some sledding on the local snow hill.
The “Matanuska” session on Trainerroad. 4×20 minutes of sub-FTP intervals. Ouch!
Recovering from illness so other than walking the dog and chasing the kids absolutely nothing!
2 days of cross country skiing in preparation for the American Birkebeiner!
Long and short run. But I didn’t get to do any because of a stomach infection.
On Saturday I spent 1.75 hours on the trainer followed by a 55 minute brick run, and on Sunday I ran 9 miles.
Easy weekend…just a 45 min run at endurance pace.
Keep up the great work Ray!!!
It was too cold to do anything! The high Sunday was 7, with 30 mph winds. There was a wind chill warning for most the weekend :(
I did do 11 minutes on the trainer for the first time in a year though.
Had some ambitions but ended up doing nothing, even though being on conference in a different city which usually adds to the will of expanding my training heat map…
Long run on Saturday followed by easy one on Sunday
General strength exercises and recovery swim.
Easy step down weekend. Just easy 4 mile run.
I just got my Tacx Vortex, and with all the snow we’ve had in the DC area I’ve given it and Zwift quite the trial. In all, I got in 3 trainer sessions, a run, and a swim. I’m pretty proud of that considering it was my first week back to work after returning from paternity leave.
Absolutely nothing. I thought I’d treat my wife and kids to my company for the weekend.
This weekend’s “workout” consisted of carrying my oldest son on my shoulders when we visited some musea. Went for a treadmill run when they were asleep!
A nice 16km run in beautiful, rainy west coast weather.
Unfortunately had a goose egg last weekend due to weather in the area. Starting today though the weather here is improving so hopefully lunch rides and even a few rides from the house (each of which starts with a 130 ft climb in < .5 miles as that's the only way to get to the main road)
I downloaded a 10K (sorry) training plan from Garmin to my Fenix and started to supplement those dreadmill runs with indoor rowing. Also been playing around a bit in the weight room, though I’m more wandering around lifting things up and putting them away than actually lifting with purpose.
Hi Ray,
Thank you once more for these great contests.
This weekend I came back with the wife and kids from a ski/snowboard Holiday in Austria.
As I never want to come back, we still skied and snowboarded on Saturday.
Sunday I had an afternoon indoor climbing session.
Oh yes, If I win I will go for your first recommendation, the Fenix 3 HR, which is very high up my wishlist :-)
Hi Ray,
Training log for this week is the “usual” 6 sessions (2 masters swims, 2 runs, 1 spin class and a brick [spin class + 3.5k on the threadmill). I live in Montreal so we don’t get to ride our regular bikes outside that often in winter…
Cheers!
Just a couple of sessions on zwift, light weekend