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Jan 2018
4:14pm, 30 Jan 2018
63,047 posts
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Gobi
I can happily watch people swim
Always enjoy the Olympics
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Jan 2018
4:41pm, 30 Jan 2018
33,372 posts
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GlennR
I watch people swim on Swimsmooth. Doesn't help me get any better though.
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Jan 2018
7:35pm, 30 Jan 2018
14,557 posts
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Nicholls595
Highest mileage month ever!! 97 not out from 30 overs. Just a parkrun's worth tomorrow for the ton. And while I'm mixing the sporting metaphors, perhaps I should make it a Tour de France style procession into Paris*
* I say Paris, but what I really mean is The Cricketers Arms to cut dry January short by a few hours.
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Jan 2018
7:42pm, 30 Jan 2018
33,376 posts
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GlennR
Good work Nico and good plan re the Cricketers.
I need to get the mileage up once my foot is fixed. Right now it’s hard to believe that I’ve done 200 mile months in the not so distant past.
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Jan 2018
10:34pm, 30 Jan 2018
13,088 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
I could bore for Scotland about the benefits of a good kick. Unfortunately, unless you were a good swimmer in your teens (or before) the time constraints of adult life will make it such that kick drills are now always (and probably rightly) considered the least important and therefore most disposable skills. There just isn’t enough time to do that much kicking in addition to swim, bike, run, etc.
More importantly, if you devoted weeks to it you might even improve your swim time by 3-5 minutes on a Standard course. You’d be better off practicing transition drills #hashtag 4thDiscipline
Meanwhile, another day passes in Paradise. Sun shines, snow yields to pressure, speeds increase. Tomorrow I have to race the kids down the skier-x course - hoping not to be last but not so confident any more. 
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Jan 2018
8:39am, 31 Jan 2018
63,049 posts
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Gobi
I used to have a good roundhouse kick
Been jogging
Big weener for me this month
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Jan 2018
8:55am, 31 Jan 2018
33,392 posts
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GlennR
Me too as it happens, Gobi (the kick, not the weener). Not sure my knee consultant would approve of me swivelling on my leg like that any more.
Morning all. It's February already in Cambridge.
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Jan 2018
9:56am, 31 Jan 2018
16,145 posts
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TRO Toddslayer
Early winkle, as I'm still out of action (but definite upturn, may be horse re-entry tomorrow).
Swim 9.5hrs/15mls/12%
Bike 45hrs/923mls/54%
Run 21hrs/117mls/26%
XT 7hrs/8%
Total 82.5 hours.
Solid base month; shame the last 4 days were 0 hours....
Normally I'd be dreading the start of February, but not this year. For a variety of reasons (the most significant of which not disclosed here) January 2018 has been a vindictive, cruel and joyless bastard of a month. Last few days of illness was a final kick in the goolies when I'd already had my fill of them. Glad to see the back of the fucker, and that feeling is not much dimmed by having February as its replacement.
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Jan 2018
10:13am, 31 Jan 2018
63,056 posts
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Gobi
TRO - you really have moved volume to a whole new level
I have an hours running left to do and will hit 65 hours which for me these days is big
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Jan 2018
10:22am, 31 Jan 2018
16,146 posts
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TRO Toddslayer
Gobi, nothing intense there. Building run volume and nothing more intense than sweetspot on the bike. There's been no races to taper/recover/travel for, and keeping to a couple of vanity sessions help the hours as well.
Whilst hours are big TSS is less the some of the peak months with lower hours, and it's felt pretty comfortable for the most part.
February will be similar, March will see a change.
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