January 2012
4 posts
First time running with the club
Tonight a total of 10km with technique exercises in the beginning followed by ~8km @ 4’30. Nice start!!
First training with the tri club Geneva!
Swimming: 400m crawl warmup + 4x4x25m medley + 200m legs + 500m pull buoy + 500m paddles + 20min t-shirt swim pulling out of the water every 50m.
No need to say I still feel the training two days later. The good part is that I feel I’ll improve my times :)
2012 Races
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
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May 2011
1 post
Wednesday's fun
Completely wasted by 6x800m (2m45ish) + 2x200m (35s).
As a wise person said, speed kills endurance, endurance kills speed… And both kill me.
April 2011
1 post
Last time I stepped on a scale it said "1 person...
Just got back from a lovely 11k with Josias. With these, I added up a total of 45k in the last 3 days, in just less than 3h45’.
It’s a bit less kms than what Dean (Karnazes) runs -each- day, but everything is relative :-)
Note to self: try to find the correlation between the following datasets
2010: 78kg - 10.5k race in 40’04”
2011: ~82kg - same race in...
March 2011
4 posts
“If you succeed in everything you’re doing, you’re attempting things that are too...”
– Warren Buffett (via themattsmith)
“An athlete trains even when nobody is watching.”
Bike+speed session
Great day of sun and sport. The warm afternoon asked for something more than just the monday’s speed session. What came out was
10km bike
2km run warmup
400m 1’21
200m recovery
400m 1’23
200m recovery
400m 1’23
200m recovery
400m 1’21
200m recovery
800m 2’56
400m recovery
800m 2’57
400m recovery
1600m 6’00
1500m cool-down
10km bike coming back home
...
February 2011
7 posts
Running
Sometimes it happens when after a turn you see the lake and the sunset. Sometimes, when alone in the nature you hear a dog barking in the distance. Sometimes it’s at km 19 of a half-marathon, when you’re tired and exhausted but you realise you can do “the” time and you go all out, finding energies you didn’t know you had.
Today it happened running in the forest. The...
Running, running & running
The running training has started and the speed sessions too. Yesterday, another 9km of medium paced run introduced the tempo run of this morning: 2.5km warming up, 4km in 15’30” and then 4km cool down. Very tired after the first speed session of the year… But tomorrow I will have to bike! (maybe some swimming too?)
Marciagranparadiso
On Sunday, I celebrated the first race of 2011 as well as the end of my competitive x-country season by participating to the Marciagranparadiso in cogne, just less than 45km. Sunny day and a pretty good snow for this year’s conditions, the result was quite good as I completed my race in 2h48’, just a few seconds less than last year (but on a different course, probably a bit shorter). A...
“It’s not important how fast you are, if you are running in the wrong...”
– Dean Karnazes
Lazy January...
Running, 45km
Swimming, around 10km
Indoor biking, 1h30
X-country ski, 140km
January 2011
5 posts
Duathlon day
A 45min run in the woods, followed by an hour of bike while watching tv (..!)
First 24 km biking of the year, very tiring!!
“Learn to run when feeling the pain: then push harder.”
– 16km cross-country ski, 1hr, very tired :-)
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2011 Calendar
A list of the main races I would like to run in 2011. Scripta manent they said, I will have no excuses after I write them down :-)
13.02 - Marcia GranParadiso, Cogne, ITA - X-Country ski, 45km
02.04 - Championnats Suisse 10k, Lysse, CH - running, 10km
17.04 - Tuttadritta, Torino, ITA - running, 10km
30.04 - 20km.ch, Lausanne, CH - running, 20km
14.05 - Grand Prix(?), Bern, CH - running,...
2011 has come!
Very nice start of the year in the white but sunny Italian mountains! Holidays were sport-sport-sport. The X-Country ski season finally started (better late than nothing) with a total of more than 100km in one week. Unfortunately the last days back in CH were rainy and the snow really suffered from that. Here’s a summary of the last weeks.
25.12 - running, 6km in 30min.
27.12 - ski, 18km...
November 2010
2 posts
Swimming: 1200m recovering from the marathon. Peaceful, in an empty and silent pool.
2010 - a summary (tentative)
It’s not easy to sum up a sport-year a few days after a bad result (or at least worst than wanted), but I’ll try anyway.
The year started with one big objective, the ironman 70.3 in Rapperswill in June. The spring preparation was towards that objective: running was very well trained, as well as swimming, while I forgot a bit the long bike tours because of some work-related limitations...
October 2010
2 posts
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August 2010
5 posts
Next objective, Fall 2010 →
July 2010
4 posts
2 tags
May 2010
4 posts
Big recap
Sunday 9.5, half marathon 89min30
Monday 30km bike
Tuesday run & swim
Wednesday biking 10+34km in 1hr+10
Holidays until Monday :)
Monday bike20k+run6k+bike4k and swimming 2.5k in the evening
Today biking! Hope to do around 40k easy.
April 2010
14 posts
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20km.ch
Last Saturday as every last Saturday in April the 20km in Lausanne took place, and I was among the lucky participants. I was coming from an unfortunate race last year, when I had to walk at the 16k mark and I finished completely exhausted and broken in 1h39. This year the goal was to stay under the 90min time mark, and to do that I decided to try not to walk, but taking off a bit slower than I...