Training Review - Week 9 - Feb 27 to Mar 5

Monday was a total write off to the bug. Tuesday I dragged myself in to work only to be sent straight home again.

Wednesday I finally managed to get back to a semblance of normality and rode to work and back without too much coughing. I thought trying to add a swim session on the back of my first day was probably a bit much but I did do a short yoga session. 

Thursday I was back on the run in to work and despite feeling pretty terrible it was actually a decent run in. Then in a gap before going to Logan in the evening I squeezed in a second run at a better pace without any real trouble.

Fridays commutes were cold and sensible and I managed some stretching and yoga in the evening. Still sniffling and coughing a bit.

Saturday I went for an early swim, planning a long steady day purely to collect miles and cover some of my losses from earlier in the week. Instead I started wheezing at 50m and had a full-on death rattle on every inhale by 100m. After stopping for a bit of a cough to clear out my lungs I tried again to the same result and then just revised my session to 100m reps on 2:30 starts. After 17 of those I decided just to take the target losses this week and I can make them up later.

After breakfast I caught up the missing weights session from last week. In the evening I did last weeks core session and some yoga. 

Sunday I got up in time to run to the pool. Since Zombies Run were celebrating I did a 5k zombie race on the way to the pool. I had again planned a long steady swim but was still struggling to breathe. I converted that to a set of 200m reps and after 5 of those realised that I was simply out of gas and still needed to run home and recover to swim tomorrow. I took an easier 5k route home at a more relaxed pace. 

In the afternoon I went out for 20 minutes on the mountain bike to chase some pokemon and just to make sure there was at least one number this week over target. An evening pair of weights and yoga sessions ticked off a couple more targets for the week. 

So I chased a bit through the weekend to limit the losses but between last weekend and this week it looks like the cold cost me somewhere in the region of 13 run miles, 35 bike miles, 2 swim miles and a handful of smaller sessions. That means a lot of red numbers below and the first time I have dropped behind any of my stretch targets. That has to be read with caution though, I am still over 10% ahead of my actual target and so far ahead of previous years at swimming and running that it isn't worth comparing. 


Target totals - Swim 3.0 miles. Bike 30.0 miles. Run 18.0 miles. 2 short core, 2 short light weights and 3 short stretching sessions. 50 mins of yoga.

Monday - Sick day.

Tuesday - Sick day.

Wednesday - Commute ride mtb 7.0 miles in 38 mins.
Commute ride mtb 7.0 miles in 41 mins. 
Yoga for hips 6 mins.

Thursday - Commute run 6.9 miles in 62 mins.
Duthie park run 3.1 miles in 25 mins. 
Stretching session.

Friday - Commute ride mtb 7.1 miles in 33 mins.
Commute ride mtb 7.0 miles in 39 mins. 
Stretching and rollering session.
Yoga session 18 mins.

Saturday - Swim at bucksburn 1,700m in 43 mins.
Weights session.
Core session.
Yoga session 20 mins.

Sunday - Run to bucksburn 3.1 miles in 25 mins.
Swim at bucksburn 1,200m in 30 mins.
Run from bucksburn 3.3 miles in 30 mins.
Mtb loop of Dyce 2.8 miles in 20 mins.
Weights session.
Yoga session 7 minutes.


Actuals - Swim 1.8 miles (2,900 m). Bike 30.9 miles. Run 16.1 miles. 1 short core, 2 short light weights and 2 stretching / rollering session. 50 mins of yoga. 

Cumulative (Cumulative target) [Cumulative Stretch target]
S 28.8 (26.0) [29.9], 
B 333.9 (260.0) [312.0], 
R 204.0 (167.0) [188.7].