Monthly (and Q1) Review - March

I should be at 38 swim miles, 380 bike miles and 235 run miles. Or if I am pushing on towards the stretch targets 43.7, 456 and 265.6.

I should also have logged at least 13 each of weights, core and stretching sessions and 6 hours of yoga. 

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Swimming has mostly been a good month. I have kept up to my target and included some good individual sessions. I was a mile behind my stretch target at the end of Feb and am 2 miles behind at the end of March. I have still been comfortably over my basic target and I have been going faster which is really the point. In previous years, the earliest I have reached 40 miles is May 11th so I am at least 6 weeks ahead of any other year.

Here is the graphical version, the green line is actuals red and dotted red are target and stretch target. The flat line at the start of March was the week I had the flu.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 am still over even my stretch target. Destroying the derailleur on my commuting bike was an annoying dent in my plans. It only cost me 7 miles but it now means I am having to resort back to the mountain bike for commuting until the weather improves enough to start using one of my nicer bikes or I can replace the derailleur.




















The bike graph shows I am above even my stretch target and while I am behind a few previous years that is what I expected as I don't really intend to spend a lot of time on the bike until after May. 

Again the small flat section is the week with the flu. 






Running I continue to post much bigger numbers than I need but I also managed to add some speed sessions. 287.5 miles at the end of Mar puts me more than 50 miles ahead of my target and 22 ahead of my stretch target. A sub-40-min 10k and another 100-mile month is more than I could have hoped for. 


The graph shows how much I am running. The steep blue line is from marathon year and can be ignored. So I am above target, above stretch target and way above any previous year (bar one). I really couldn't hope for anything more at this stage. 









13 weights and 12 core sessions puts me back on schedule. A pair on Sunday will put me slightly ahead. 

I am at just over 13 hours of yoga. Still high for year-to-date thanks to the binge in January, but also slightly over for March. 



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As it is end-of-Quarter I also am due for a check in against other targets. 


I haven't done a swim or bike race yet but have gone fairly close to some swim race targets during training. 

Running I have only done one race but that was enough to score my sub-41 10k target and also to get two of my stretch targets, running sub-40 and run-my-age.