Duathlon

I've still not got a car so I'm still riding and running to work. Running to work is a lot tougher than riding so I'm trying to make sure I do this at least twice a week. I'm also trying to make sure I go on the turbo trainer for 3o minutes at least twice a week too.

On Monday this week I rode to work and managed to motivate myself to get on the turbo trainer in the evening. It was a relatively easy session but I'm going to build it up with more and more sprint sections.

Yesterday I ran to work and at lunchtime I found a duathlon to enter on New Years Eve. I've had a look at the times and have some targets (tough targets if I want to do well!) so I should be able to be even more motivated on those sprint sections of the turbo training sessions. On the run home I really went for it and did the 4.6 miles in 28 minutes (6:06 minutes per mile) - I was imagining that I was racing the duathlon at the time! Unfortunately, this resulted in me really hurting my leg (over stretching I think) and today I couldn't possibly have run to work (it even hurt lying in bed). I managed to cycle in though - phew!