Training Review - Week 40 - October 2 to 8

Monday I started with a gentle jog with Dexter. We did a bit of exploring from our cottage starting with some farm tracks and then a bit of off-roading through the forest. In the afternoon I went to try out the pool. I did a bit of front crawl, then a bit of breast stroke, and even a bit of butterfly. Garmin doesn’t like the idea of an 11m pool. It doesn’t like anything shorter than 20m. I set it to 22m so that I could just cut the distance in half but the small pool and regular turns really confused the lap counter.

Tuesday my cunning plan to enjoy the week ran into a brick wall as I caught a savage cold. We went for a walk to Dog Falls in the morning when it was just a sniffle but by the time we got to lunch I was struggling. We bailed on doing anything else useful but we did take the opportunity to catch up on the first couple of episodes of Star Trek Discovery.

Wednesday we took a day trip through to Beauly for lunch and back through Drumandrochit to try and take it easy. In the afternoon we decided to take a short walk to Plodda Falls.  As well as being a much shorter walk, which I thought I could manage with a couple of Lemsips, it also comes with some amazing views. Mrs M described it as ‘probably the most amazing view in Scotland’. I am not convinced it is out on its own but it certainly come in as a contender, and in terms of the view you get for minimal physical effort it is definitely somewhere near the top of the list.

After that I felt a bit more human again so I decided to be ambitious and headed back to the pool in the evening. I managed an easy 20 minutes, half each of front crawl and breast stroke. Then I spent a while in the games room, trying to teach Mrs M the basics of pool, fussball, table tennis and air hockey.

Thursday I took Dexter out for a jog in the morning. My cold still hasn’t cleared but I was able to jog along comfortably with him. I even managed to add a core session when I got back to the cottage. Before lunch we went to visit the Corrimony cairn and standing stones. But that was enough for all three of us. Mrs M and I were struggling to fight off the cold and Dex just ran out of gas for the week. 

Friday we started the trip home with an extended stop in Inverness for the day and then Elgin in the evening.

Saturday was meant to be a detour via Keith Cross-Country on the way home but when I woke up in the morning I was struggling against the cold again and decided to just be sensible and head home.

Sunday was no better so I took the last day of holiday as another total rest day to try and recover. In the afternoon I went to see Bladerunner 2049 on my own as Mrs M was too sick, and correspondingly grumpy, to leave the house. Her loss, it was amazing.

So basically I have done very little this week, much of that I can blame on the cold that I have been fighting and the rest I can blame on my holiday. 

Targets - Have fun. 

Monday – Jog with Dexter 2.3 miles in 32 mins.

Swim 30 minutes ~1,160m.

Tuesday – Cold.

Wednesday – Cold.

Swim 20 minutes ~930m.

Thursday – Cold
Jog with Dexter 2.9 miles in 38 mins.

Friday - Cold.
Travel day.

Saturday – Travel day.

Sunday - Rest day.

Actuals - Swim 1.3 miles (2,100m). Bike 0.0 miles. Run 5.2 miles. 
1 short core, 0 short light weights and 0 stretching / rollering session. 0 mins of yoga.

Cumulative (Cumulative target) [Cumulative Stretch target]
S 107.6 (101.0) [116.2], 
B 1,891.2 (1,644.0) [1,972.8], 
R 678.1 (637.0) [719.8].