Onward to 2018!

Done with the year (:

Fell short of 4000 km but still not too bad, paddled almost 1000 km more than 2016 ;)

Onward to 2018!

Almost the end of 2017! I really like Oct - Dec as things are winding down a bit, and more importantly, I get the whole MacRitchie to myself ;)

Not going to hit 4000 km for the year but let's get a bit closer to that.

28th!

Writing it here to be thankful that this happened:

A relatively big week of training,

122 km of kayaking (I honestly cant rmb when was the last time i did this)
13 km of canoeing
~9km of running
Some pullups and pushups

*Could have been more kilometres but I controlled myself a little, probably becoming a bit wiser with age ;)

Oh yes, and inbetween 7 hours of lecturing, plus 3 days of conference and attended a wedding lunch.

Onward!

Half time summary 2017

Progress (:

Sleep hours slightly down to 55 hours / week.

	Averages		Totals
	2017 (6 mths)	2016	2017 (6 mths)	2016
K	58	43	1511	2235
C	17	7	430	366
Trg	10	8	262	428

wheeeee (:

Had quite a good day today (: and the week was quite good also (:

Finally ventured into the Northern Trail again. Twice this week actually. 44'18 from shed to the big rock and back, not too bad. Got the running feel back and it was quite exciting to run in the rain and lightning/thunder all around (don't try this at home!). Limiting factors were the leg muscles and joints, not cardio haha. Hopefully continue to grease the groove and it will be even better.

And did a 10km paddling timetrial today haha. I haven't done this proper in maybe 6 years :p Limiting factor seemed to be the muscles, every stroke was solid, again cardio wasn't too taxed yet. 59'23. Was trying to sub 1 hour, then was hanging on to sub 59'30. Last 500m was at 2'40 pace actually, so it means I can go much faster!

Now to improve these timings by 15% ;) Funny how things come full circle and I'm just coming back to where I left off from 6 years ago. Good thing is that I'm hopefully much wiser now.

On a side note, MacR was very peaceful this week (save for the crazy lightning and thunderstorms), with minimal school kids around.

Oh yes, there was much more time this week so I biked to check out the new coastal road. Not the best stretch to cycle :p 47 km took me ~2.5 h as I watched my speed drop slowly :p

Q1 2017

The plan for 2017 was to beat this, and possibly aim for 4000 km:

2016
Total dist (K): 2235
Total dist (C): 366
No. of trgs: 428

If divided evenly to 4 quarters,

K: 559

C: 92

Trgs: 107

The tally for 1st quarter of 2017 (13 weeks):

K/C/Trgs: 737/197/126

Mileage 934km (short of 66km to 1000km!)

Thought I'll add one more piece of stats in:

I did this with average 57 h  of sleep per week, and wrote up a couple of papers and abstracts ;)

The breakdown by range and mean:

K: 23 - 101 (57)

C: 0 - 34 (15)

Trgs: 7 - 12 (10)

Sleep: 53 - 62.5 (57)

A chart from Google sheets (:

The plan for 2017

is to beat this:

2016
Total dist (K): 2235
Total dist (C): 366
No. of trgs: 428

Not too hard considering I didn't train properly in the 2nd half of the year :p

So maybe, let's do 4000 km instead :D