Monday, I skipped the ride to swimming for a number of reasons. Rain and tiredness high amongst them. I also had to cut bits out of the session to suit my dodgy shoulder. This meant I only covered a mile during the session. But within that I stuck in a 100m PB and 3 others within a second. This just makes Sunday's race swim even more frustrating. Why can I comfortably pull out PB times the day after a race when I am tired, but during the race itself I couldn't even swim at my 2012 race pace?
Tuesday, I took a rest to try and recover better from Sunday's race. Went to the cinema to see 22 Jump Street. Not quite as brilliant as the first one but still pretty great.
Wednesday I went to Knockburn. Did a steady 4 mile run before going in for a swim. Planned to do 3 laps to make up for Monday's short swim session. Clocked the first one in 11:23 without trying, that is pretty much on Sunday's race pace, then I did 2 more laps the same, still taking it easy and still in 11:34 and 11:40.
Thursday I decided to do a running reps session. I have been skipping these for a while and still seeming to run well in training but it didn't convert to racing so I am going to try and put them back in more regularly. I also did a much more extensive rollering and stretching session.
Friday I thought about biking some of the miles that I missed earlier in the week or taking an easy run to get my high mile target that I set this week but I decided instead to play it a bit safer and stick to just rollering and stretching
Moray Way Relay on Sunday will get a race post to itself. I also then went to Forres to try my road bike on the Triathlon course for next weekend. The course is officially a mountain bike route but a few people have done it on cyclocross bikes and I am fairly confident that if the ground stays dry and hard it is definitely road bike capable. I was planning to ride the whole thing but as I was tired from racing in the morning I just went to the worst part of the course and tested the bike on it. Will stick an older set of wheels on it and let the tyre pressures down a little and it will be fine.
Despite hardly touching the bike this week and slightly missing my big run target I am still pretty happy with this week.
Target totals - Swim > 2 miles. Bike > 35 miles. Run > 18 miles. 1 short core, 1 short light weights and 2 short stretching sessions. 10mins of wii yoga.
Monday - Swim with TPT. 1,600m in 53 mins.
Tuesday - Rest day
Cinema - 22 Jump Street
Wednesday - Run 4 miles in 33 mins.
Swim 3 laps (1,800m) in 35 mins.
Thursday - Zara reps session 3.4 miles in 30 mins.
Friday - Rollering and stretching.
Saturday - Rest day.
Sunday - Moray Way relay 9.1 miles in 1 hour 9 mins. (+0.6 miles warm up).
Forres triathlon bike recce 2.3 miles in 16 mins.
Actual totals - Swim 2.1 miles (3,400m). Bike 2.3 miles. Run 17.1 miles. short core, short light weights and 2
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