I seem to be getting down to a weekly update rather than a daily at the moment which is a reflection on the slightly scaled back training I was doing. It is now going back up a gear because I have something to aim for.
Last week midweek (I think Wednesday… Quickly checks twitter updates… Yes. Wednesday) I was up early and went for a quick run. I convinced the wife to come with me as she is a little slower than me and would keep my pace to a slower which would be less damaging to my legs. It was only half an hour but it was nice, no strains or pains.
Saturday we went swimming again. I think this is going to become a regular thing as we are both getting a lot out of it at the moment. I wanted to swim a minimum of a mile while we were there so I set off counting lengths. I needed to swim 50 of them and had managed that after about 50 minutes. I don’t quite know why I was slower than for the Great North Swim, maybe I stopped more often than I thought to talk to the wife. I don’t know but I’m not going to worry about it too much, I have plenty of time to work up to the speed I want to achieve for next years great north swim.
The weather on Sunday was looking pretty atrocious so I shoehorned a kayak trip into the Saturday afternoon. An hour on the water was good, after the swim it was hard work on the arms and I really felt the aches in my back and chest muscles on Sunday.
I am now putting together a week long fitness plan for me and the wife that will be set in stone, with the condition that we will do everything set out on the plan each and every day and we had better have a phenomenally good reason for not doing each days plan. I had a plan with the Whitehouse gym that Fitness Stu put together for me ages ago, and I suppose I could go back to that, but that would involve actually going to the gym which was a pain in the arse after work mid-week.
The new race I have to train for. Someone I follow on twitter suggested a Kilomarathon. 26 kilometres (instead of miles as you would get in a normal marathon) which works out to be about 16 odd miles. I have just signed up for it so now I am pretty much committed to training. Minor worry about what the doctor said about anterior compartment syndrome but I’m sure I’ll be able to find a way to run around the problem by March 14th.
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Training, Planning and Running the Devizes to Westminster Race
Welcome to my blog where I am documenting all of the training and planning toward competing in the Devizes to Westminster kayak marathon in 2010.
When I started this my one and only goal was to be ready to take part in the DW race but once I begun my training in earnest I started to look around at other endurance events with a desire to take part in those as well.
On the 22nd of March I took part in the Ironbridge half marathon finishing the race in 2h 01m 32s.
The 12th September I will compete in the Great North Swim.
8 days later I will take on the Great North half Marathon.
And then in April 2010 is the reason for all of this, the Devizes to Westminster kayak ultra marathon.
Thank you for your support.
When I started this my one and only goal was to be ready to take part in the DW race but once I begun my training in earnest I started to look around at other endurance events with a desire to take part in those as well.
On the 22nd of March I took part in the Ironbridge half marathon finishing the race in 2h 01m 32s.
The 12th September I will compete in the Great North Swim.
8 days later I will take on the Great North half Marathon.
And then in April 2010 is the reason for all of this, the Devizes to Westminster kayak ultra marathon.
Thank you for your support.
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The Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race is the longest non-stop canoe race in the world. It starts in the quiet market town of Devizes in Wiltshire and finishes 125 miles later at Westminster Bridge, directly opposite the Houses of Parliament in the heart of London.
It is held over the Easter weekend each year and has been a fixture in the British sporting calendar since 1950. But DW is much more than just a canoe race - it’s an adventure! It forces competitors to dig long and deep into their reserves of physical and mental stamina which is why the race is often called “the canoeists’ Everest”.
Having the technical skill to paddle a kayak or canoe is essential but the most important quality needed to complete DW is raw determination. And the reward for making the mighty effort needed to cross the finish line is a sense of satisfaction so profound that many paddlers can’t resist coming back year after year.
It is held over the Easter weekend each year and has been a fixture in the British sporting calendar since 1950. But DW is much more than just a canoe race - it’s an adventure! It forces competitors to dig long and deep into their reserves of physical and mental stamina which is why the race is often called “the canoeists’ Everest”.
Having the technical skill to paddle a kayak or canoe is essential but the most important quality needed to complete DW is raw determination. And the reward for making the mighty effort needed to cross the finish line is a sense of satisfaction so profound that many paddlers can’t resist coming back year after year.
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