www.bryankeane.com Having to stop in the warm-up before you even start your run session to get a bottle of water is just not right. Seriously, needing water just to start the session is not cool. That’s what happened last night. I decided to stay on in here in Subic Bay in the Philippines after the race last weekend and use if as a training base before my next race in Seoul on the 15th. I’m here with Richie Nicholls. We have been doing a lot of talk about training and how difficult it is for a Irish man and Scots man to train in these sort of conditions.
Usually I’m good in the heat. I race well in it but racing is one thing, training is another. Everything is slow, run speeds, thought processes, the locals, there is just a constant state of fatigue that you can’t get shake. Take a rest day and do nothing and you still feel tired, you never feel fresh in any session. It doesn’t matter if it’s an easy run or a hard run, everything is about 2km slower and you just have to accept that.
Some morning you wake up in a cold air conditioned room and you think maybe just maybe it might be cold outside until you step outside into the oven that it is 35 degrees and high humidity. Because it is so hot during the day, you have to do all your hard running and biking either very early or very late, track sessions at 6am are just not right, I asked some of the locals how they manage training in the heat as they said they struggle as well. Their secret for hard running is track & shower sessions. You do your run session at the track and at the end of every long rep or so, you run into the changing rooms and jump in the cold shower.
That’s the locals solution to training in this weather, there is no getting used to it. I’m bitching about the sun and warm weather, stupidly warm weather that is. Never happy are we. When it’s too hot you want cold weather, when its too cold you want warm weather, I guess I’m looking for a little less of the extremes. In cold weather you can gear up for it, just make sure you have right clothes, in hot weather you just do what you can to survive, and that’s staying out of the sun during the day
Besides the obstacle that is the giant ball of fire in the sky, here in the Philippines there are other obstacles that can effect your training, Drivers being one, drivers here behave is as if they are all 12 year olds on bikes, but they are in cars. Remember how you behaved on the road back then with little or no road awareness, just ambled along, doesn’t matter what side you ride on. That’s how they drive over here, pretty entertaining but watch out. They have car lights but sure why would you turn your lights on at night eh?
Not much else to report from the Philippines, I race in Seoul next Sunday so I’m looking forward to hitting Korea next week and getting back into some sort of normality before it descends into chaos again when I hit China the week after for my last race in this Asian adventure
Usually I’m good in the heat. I race well in it but racing is one thing, training is another. Everything is slow, run speeds, thought processes, the locals, there is just a constant state of fatigue that you can’t get shake. Take a rest day and do nothing and you still feel tired, you never feel fresh in any session. It doesn’t matter if it’s an easy run or a hard run, everything is about 2km slower and you just have to accept that.
Some morning you wake up in a cold air conditioned room and you think maybe just maybe it might be cold outside until you step outside into the oven that it is 35 degrees and high humidity. Because it is so hot during the day, you have to do all your hard running and biking either very early or very late, track sessions at 6am are just not right, I asked some of the locals how they manage training in the heat as they said they struggle as well. Their secret for hard running is track & shower sessions. You do your run session at the track and at the end of every long rep or so, you run into the changing rooms and jump in the cold shower.
That’s the locals solution to training in this weather, there is no getting used to it. I’m bitching about the sun and warm weather, stupidly warm weather that is. Never happy are we. When it’s too hot you want cold weather, when its too cold you want warm weather, I guess I’m looking for a little less of the extremes. In cold weather you can gear up for it, just make sure you have right clothes, in hot weather you just do what you can to survive, and that’s staying out of the sun during the day
Besides the obstacle that is the giant ball of fire in the sky, here in the Philippines there are other obstacles that can effect your training, Drivers being one, drivers here behave is as if they are all 12 year olds on bikes, but they are in cars. Remember how you behaved on the road back then with little or no road awareness, just ambled along, doesn’t matter what side you ride on. That’s how they drive over here, pretty entertaining but watch out. They have car lights but sure why would you turn your lights on at night eh?
Not much else to report from the Philippines, I race in Seoul next Sunday so I’m looking forward to hitting Korea next week and getting back into some sort of normality before it descends into chaos again when I hit China the week after for my last race in this Asian adventure
