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Cardio Tuesday

reason — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:08:49 +0000

Yesterday was a good day for my Cardio Tuesday, but i didn’t get enough time to run. I should have to stop getting drawn in by the tv when eating my breakfast, makes me late every time!

The rowing and bike times for yesterday are:

Cycling 10km – 15:12 – NEW RECORD
Rowing 2000m – 8:21 – NEW RECORD

5k running

reason — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:07:51 +0000

On Saturday, I felt as though I had reached a fitness level that allowed me to attempt my first 5km run, so off I went! The full distance of the route I ran is ~5.5km, and with a time of 24:30 secs, I’m quite chuffed with it.

Adding to my “Cardio Tuesday’s”, i’m going to attempt the 5km run every month around the same day, and try and improve my time each month, my goal being 15 mins. All this is in an attempt to raise my fitness levels for a half/full marathon this year, not sure which one yet, will have to start looking into it VERY soon though.

Cardio Tuesday’s

reason — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:21:50 +0000

I went to the gym today, and decided that Tuesday’s are now “Cardio Tuesday’s”.

Giving myself ~1 hour at the gym, i’m going/have stareted doing bike, followed by rowing and then running.

I’m going to be doing

interval training for 10km on bike
2000m on the rower on level 9 of 10 (older version of this Concept 2 rower)
running for 15 minutes

I will be posting my times/distances managed each week, starting with today’s!

Results

Bike (time taken to do 10km) : 16 minutes – Average of 37.5km/h

Rower (time taken to do 2000m): 8 minutes, 42 seconds – Average of 3.83m/s

Run (for 15 minutes): 3.km – Average of 12km/h