First swim of the year. Solid but not spectacular. Should have finished with 8 x 50m sprints but I was cramping up so I bailed slightly early, knowing that I had my weekly target in the bag already. Then I came home and did my core session. I am going to try and pick off the 'extras' earlier in the week rather than lazily leaving them to the weekend and finding excuses for not doing them.
Tuesday's run got switched for a mountain bike trip to Kirkhill. I have some slack in my programme this week to be flexible so I decided to take the variety and to make back some of the missing bike miles from last week. Wasn't the best ride. I still can't get the weight distribution right on my mountain bike. It is too light so climbs are a balancing act between wheelies and wheelspin. Also the summer tyres I am running slide a lot in the wet or the mud. Had a 'moment' over the handlebars, followed closely by two small 'offs' onto my pinned shoulder. It is really stiff since I got back. Pretty sure it has just tightened up as a precaution since this is the first time I have crashed on the pin and it still doesn't react quite as normal. I really need to try a set of heavier, chunky tyres, and some lower pressures. With a view to getting the shoulder relaxed a bit before it messes up my back I also put my stretching session in.
Wednesday I was still suffering a bit with my shoulder. Went out for a short run around Dyce, mostly just to knock off some miles for the week. Started ok but my stiff shoulder started pulling on my back and my hip so I cut a half mile off the end of my loop. Was a decent pace for what I did do though so I was happy enough.
Thursday was a trip to Last Vegas. Expected all the best bits would be in the trailer but there were plenty more tucked away. Decent film all in. Much like Walter Mitty last week it was predictable, but done well enough to be worth seeing. 7/10.
Friday I thought I might be getting the start of a cold. Got home from work and was a bit sniffly, but got out to do my run before I felt any worse. Stuck to just steady miles as it is still too dark for reps. Looked like evening reps might be sooner than I expected though as it was still just about light when I got home from work. Added a little bit to my normal loop to cover the missed half mile from Tuesday. That brings tomorrow's plan to about 10k, which I will do with an extended set of hill reps. This will get me a reps session for this week and will also get me on to the Strava Anywhere-10k scoresheet.
Getting out of bed on Saturday morning was pretty hard work, but I managed to drag myself out to do my rep session. I took a slightly longer route to the start to try and warm-up through the cold. I did 8 reps, massively inconsistent between 45-67 secs but on average faster and slightly more consistent than the 6 from last week but still need an awful lot of work. I then did an extended run home to take in the rest of my loop around Dyce and also did a quick loop round the park to measure where I plan to do some flat reps later in the year (0.4 miles). Clocked enough miles to get onto the Strava 10k list, but barely snuck under the hour mark. Happy enough with the reps on the hills and getting all my miles for the week though.
Sunday I planned to do 40-45 by riding out Kintore and following the group for 20miles before turning home again. I got up on time this week and wrapped up in 6 layers to ride out to Kintore. It was still too cold and I was struggling with fingers and toes even by the time I got to the start. I turned onto the back of the group and followed them back as far as Dyce but I was really suffering from the cold and I got off the chain gang and rolled home. Once back in the house I jumped on the TT bike and the turbo for 5 minutes to try and warm up. Garmin was misbehaving (again) so I have had to guess at time and take distance from a previous ride.
Also put in a trip to see Delivery Man. Slow and predictable and looked better in the trailer but inoffensive and worth 6/10.
Finished off the week with a full round of wii yoga on Sunday evening.
In terms of numbers I am a bit behind target on biking numbers for the year after 2 poor weeks, but I am still happy with where my overall numbers are at the end of week two. The weather hasn't been particularly bike-friendly so far and I can easily make up these small losses once the weather warms up a little. Everything else is going better than planned despite the weather. And the rep sessions are definitely improving my running already.
Target totals - Swim >1 miles. Bike >35 miles. Run >12 miles. 1 short core, 1 short light weights and 1 short stretching sessions. 30mins of wii yoga.
Monday - Swim with TPT. 1,775m in 35mins.
Core session.
Tuesday - MTB, 6.3miles in 1 hr 24mins.
Stretching session.
Wednesday - Run 2.6 miles, 22mins.
Light weights session.
Thursday - Date Night - Last Vegas.
Friday - Run 3.7 miles in 29mins.
Saturday - 8 x Zara hill reps. 6.4 in 59mins.
Sunday - Ride 18 miles, 1 hour 20-ish.
Wii yoga for 36mins.
Cinema - Delivery Man.
Actual totals - Swim 1.1 miles (1,775m). Bike 24.3 miles. Run 12.7 miles. 1 short core, 1 short light weights and 1 short stretching sessions. 36 mins of wii yoga.
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