Bike Run Brick x 3

Oh haiii!

(Me post shower, post meal but pre everything grooming / beautifying! This one is for you, Corey! Ha! I do solemnly swear to post more pictures! You have my word! Along with the everyday pictures, a few gems such as this one will get sneaked in from time to time, of course…

What? Totally normal! Ha! – Photo credit to the, oh so talented, Rory!)

Anyhoo, I woke up today feeling all chirpy and confident after yesterdays ride so, being the masochist that I am, I decided on a godawful lung-buster of a lovely little brick session for my workout of the day.

1. 10 mins bike
2. 1 mile run
3. 10 mins bike
4. 1 mile run
5. 10 mins bike
6. 1 mile run

I set my bike up on the turbo and then ran a little mile loop from my front door. I’ve used the same loop a few times so I know that it’s exactly a mile which was handy as I couldn’t figure out how to (quickly) switch my garmin from indoors to outdoors whilst keeping it on auto multisport mode. I also wanted to keep it as ‘race’ like as possible so didn’t want to hang around waving my wrist in the air trying to get a signal!

I was aiming for my run splits to look something like 7:40 / 7:30 / 7:20 so I’m pretty chuffed with how I actually did;

So, from right to left… 7:21 / 7:23 / 7:09

I would have loved negative splits all the way through but as long as I’m faster at the end than I am at the beginning, then I’m a happy, happy camper! 🙂

I realise that it’s saying that I ran 0.00 miles but I can assure you I ran whole miles! I made sure I ‘lapped’ it at exactly the same points so it should be pretty accurate! I started with a 15:05 (I must have been daydreaming with those extra 5 seconds!) minute warm up on the bike + a few dynamic stretches. Then the main body of the workout took me 57 minutes and 36 seconds, according to my garmin. A breakdown of the whole thing, looks like this;

(Minor niggle – Any Garmin Connect users out there that know how to merge activities? It would be nice to see all the data together, as one whole workout.)

Oooh I also walked up and down my street after that third and final run, to cool down. I then finished with some stretching, my usual ice bath and a slap up dinner of homemade lasagna, 1/2 a sweet potato and loads of steamed kale & carrots topped with way too much (sorry I’m not sorry!) goats cheese!

And now I’m sat feeling pretty content, getting through some work ready for uni tomorrow…

How did you get your sweat on today? Anyone out there a fan of brick workouts?

Lots of love, Hayley