Training Review - Week 18 - April 28 to May 4

Monday was such a nice day I decided to go out for a run straight after work. 

At swimming I was also doing some turns (badly). But doing them repeatedly is building up enough confidence that I can survive the bad ones without drowning, or becoming too much of a lane obstacle to other swimmers behind me. So I can keep working on them during sessions.

Having done my run a day early I had an option to bike on Tuesday evening instead. It was meant to be a leisurely recovery ride with two of us having raced at the weekend. Instead it pretty much turned into a three-bike team time trial.

Wednesday night the cinema didn't have anything worth watching so I just took a rest day. 

Thursday I went for another midweek bike ride. So my weekly bike miles are done and I still have a long ride planned for Saturday. 

Friday I should have at least gone for a short run but I was tired from my week at work. I did a bit of bike maintenance for a friend who had buckled his bike wheel. Then went out to dinner and had a night off.

Saturday I dropped my planned long ride and put in my planned brick session for the week instead. Another garmin problem (user error this time though) annoyingly means that I can't compare it to riding the same route a month ago or to future attempts of the same. but the ride time was pretty good and the run was surprisingly quick for a brick session.

Sunday was crewing for Deeside Duathlon. I had hoped to sneak in a short run as well but it is a long day and I was exhausted by the time I got home. Leaves me short of run miles for the week but 3 fast bike rides were worth it.

Overall it has been a solid week. I could have had the run miles in either of the rest days or possibly even on the Sunday if I had managed my time better. The extra bike miles at the pace they were done is worth the missed run miles. Still missing more than a few of the extra sessions but getting in plenty of stretching and rollering.
Knockburn Loch is officially open from Monday. Probably still too cold for me to be in it so I will give it a couple of weeks until someone I trust comes back with a temperature report on the water before I go to my regular Wednesday night outdoor swims. 



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 - Run 3.2 miles in 25 mins.
Swim with TPT 1,950m in 57 mins. 

Tuesday -  Bike 13.5 miles in 50 mins.

Wednesday - Rest Day

Thursday - Bike 26.1 miles in 1 hour 44 mins.

Friday -  Rest Day

Saturday - Brick. Bike 10.1 miles in 40 mins.
Run 4.2 miles in 32 mins.

Sunday - Crew Deeside Duathlon.

Actual totals - Swim 1.2 miles (1,950 m). Bike 49.7 miles. Run 7.4 miles.  short core,  short light weights and 3 short stretching sessions.  mins of wii yoga.