London, United Kingdom
dugong /ˈduːgɒŋ,ˈdjuː-/ //noun// noun: dugong; plural noun: dugongs; plural noun: dugong //1. a sea cow found on the coasts of the Indian Ocean from eastern Africa to northern Australia. It is distinguished from the manatees by its forked tail.// 2013 saw this little Dugong migrate from the warm climes of Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia, to the more hostile climes on London. //2014 sees the Dugong take on the crazy challenge of the Tour de Force. 21 days, over 3,500km, one week ahead of the (other) pro cyclists in the Tour de France.// Join me in what will be a journey of crazy self discovery, on a bike.//

Sunday, 13 April 2014

New Dugong Record

I have two little personal crusades going on as I train for Le Tour and Hawaii Half Ironman. The first is to temper my propensity to be all or nothing (ie. well I can't do a two hour run this morning, so I'll just do nothing and eat half a packet of chocolate biscuits). 

The second is to push myself to go faster. I've spent a lot of time pushing myself to go longer, and I think have hidden away from the challenge of being faster by playing the 'I'm an endurance athlete' card.

I had two HARD runs this week. The first was in a 10 minute easy, 20 minutes hard, 10 minutes easy Run, and then the other with a 30 minute run, 60 minute cycle, 10 minute HARD run.

In the 20 minute run I managed to cover 3.85km at an average pace of 5:11 minutes per km.

I was stoked!

Then today I really pushed hard in my 10 minute run effort and managed to cover 2.09km at an average pace of 4:49 minutes per km.

Wow! So happy with that!
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