(fast techno music)
- Whether you're an old hand to triathlon,
or a complete beginner,
you've probably heard of the term brick session.
- Yes, so here we are at team bath.
And we're about to do a run/bike/run.
Nice solid brick.
Not too hard.
And what we're gonna do is cap it at 80% heart rate.
- Yep, I mean it is winter after all.
We don't want to get ill, we don't want to get injured.
So we're gonna work at a tempo pace.
- So the first run's gonna be a mile around the track,
which hopefully I'll get a little but of a head start on.
'Cause Mark will come back
and catch me on the bike, no doubt.
The bike's gonna be 10k long.
And the last run.
The second run is gonna be just two laps
of the track, 800 metres.
- Should we get going?
- Let's get going, I'll get warmed up.
- Right.
What Mark doesn't know,
given that he is a professional at the moment,
I'm going to be giving my heart rate monitor
to the cameraman.
So hopefully I get a bit of a head start on the first run.
Let's go.
- Alright mate.
So, are you ready?
- Yep.
- The Polar is gonna beep if you go above 80%
heart rate so no cheating.
We'll be listening.
- Yep, yep, yep.
- Alright, here we go.
A mile, let's go.
(upbeat techno music)
- See you're pushin' a bit harder, eh?
(beeping)
- Mine's beepin'.
(huffing breaths)
- Who'd'a thought it?
(huffing breaths)
- I ran that bang on 80%.
He's fitter than I thought he was.
- Oh you absolute sod.
(chuckling)
- I thought somethin' was up.
(beeping)
- 6k in, what you?
- Seven.
(laughing)
(beeping)
- 9.88.
9.99. - 9.7.
9.72.
- 10k.
(huffing breaths)
- 9.9.
- Come on Bucko! - Yeah.
Come on.
Elastic laces would've been much better.
Prepare to fail.
Alright let's go.
(upbeat techno music)
(beeping)
I'm just buzzing away
- You can't win 'em all.
- Make sure you're not working too hard there, mate.
Good job.
I heard you beeping like a lap ago.
- I think it was for the whole two laps.
- So, here we are back in the studio,
after the brick session.
- It was quite a tough brick session as well.
- It was.
You were the first one to win.
You've got to dust off the cobwebs a bit
and-- - I think it's more that,
it probably shouldn't have been that tough, but--
- Yeah, most clever tactic by Mark to
take his heart rate monitor off
and give it to the camera man.
- Well, you are a bit fitter than me so I had to
have a little bit of a handicap.
- Well no, it was all good.
Well congratulations for your second place.
- Thank you very much.
- In podium, you got to take it mate.
- So, why do a brick session?
- Well I think it's important to do these things
'cause it's, you know, we're multi-sport athletes
and it's a multi-sport training session.
You jump in from one discipline to the other.
You gettin' those jelly legs like you do in a race.
I think it's just good practise to delve back into that
every now and again.
- Absolutely, and especially coming from a swim
to a bike or a swim to a run.
You have that shunt of blood from
down to your legs
and you can only mimic that by doing it in training
as you would in a race.
- Yeah and I think it's that competition element almost.
I know we did it together.
You could do it on your own if you wanted
but, you know I think the more the merrier
with something like that.
We'd capped at 80% heart rate,
to give ourselves a bit of a chance,
and a bit of room to work with
without absolutely flogging ourselves.
You know, it works well.
I mean you could go super hard if you wanted to.
- Absolutely, but we are in the winter
which then poses the question, when do we do--
- Yeah. - A brick session.
- When is the best time to do a brick?
- Well, obviously as Mark said, we capped
at 80% because it is the winter
and we don't want to get injured or ill.
But you can get quite cheeky on these sessions.
And you can drag them through into the race season,
into the summer months.
- I mean I don't think there's anything wrong with doin'
maybe one every two weeks.
Or every, one a month.
Brick sessions are there as a great training session.
And like you said it just mimics what we do
in a race scenario.
- Absolutely.
- Well, that was our brick session.
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