Monthly Review - February

I should be at 24 swim miles,240 bike miles and 156 run miles. Or if I am pushing on towards the stretch targets 27.6, 288 and 176.3.

I should also have logged at least 8 each of weights, core and stretching sessions and 4 hours of yoga. 

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Swimming has been another huge month. Building on my 13.8 miles from January I put in another 13.2 in February despite missing my last session of the month with a bug. 27 miles to date is more than 10% over my target and just misses my stretch target due to the aforementioned missed swim session. My previous longest year to Feb is 15.1 miles. 

The bike continues to be way above plan as well. I was meant to be doing less on the bike in Q1 as I focus on Bratislava, but 303 miles puts me 26% over my target and 5% over my stretch target. That is almost perfect according to plan as it means my February distance (136 miles) is above target (120) but not as high as my stretch target (144). That could have been 30-40 miles longer if I hadn't been carrying the bug in to this last weekend as I would either have gone to Inverurie Duathlon or gone out for a solo ride, plus a commute to work on Monday 27th.

Running I continue to post much bigger numbers than I need and continually fail to do faster session because of that. 187.9 miles at the end of Feb puts me more than 30 miles ahead of my target and 11 ahead of my stretch target. But still no fast sessions and that really has to change. 7 mile jog commutes are keeping me fit but not actually helping me run any faster. Jogging to the pool and back on Saturday's is little more than a warm-up. 

I was right on course with 7 weights and 7 core sessions and the remaining pair set for the weekend. Those will carry over in to this week but so has the bug so trying to double up is unlikely this week and they are probably going to carry over again.  I need to be careful not to get into the habit of previous years of letting them escape from the programme.

I am at just over 10 hours of yoga. That is good for year-to-date but is only 60 minutes in Feb against a plan of 120.

So basically I am still killing most of the targets, yoga needs to be more consistent and faster run sessions need to be included, but despite losing the best part of a week I am still way ahead of my mileage plans and I could afford to trade start trading off sessions for rest and recovery days or distance for speed sessions without endangering the totals.