Training Review - Week 1 - Jan 1 to 8

As always my first week is a good chance to get out ahead of the numbers before work gets in the way. I set up my plan knowing that I would have Dexter for a few days and that Inverurie pool would be closed on Monday. 

The extra Dexter days and just a half week of commuting gives me a strange start to the year with my target run miles coming out higher than my target bike miles. As much as I want to focus on swimming and running for the first few months of this year that is not a trend I intend to continue past Sunday. 

Monday's run turned out to be about a mile longer than I had planned so one day in and I am already ahead of my stretch target. Also having dropped Dexter halfway through I also cranked up the pace a little and turned the second half into a decent run. In the afternoon I started on this years yoga programme from yogawithadriene.com. Interrupted it while the hob tried to start and electrical fire in the kitchen. Managed to isolate the hob and order a replacement termination block whilst rescuing dinner and moving from boiled to roast veg in the still working oven. Then back for the rest of the yoga session. 

Tuesday I tried to sneak in an early swim but my training partner had a last minute change of plans and we had to reschedule until lunchtime. That worked out well as I had the chance to do my yoga session in the morning and that helped loosen out my shoulders and some of the aches and stiffness from my mountain bike crash.

Another reshuffle by my training partner meant delaying swimming until the afternoon meant that I had time to get out for a run before going to the pool. It is my first run in a while without  either Pokemon, Dexter or a commute to work interfering with the pace. It wasn't 'fast' as such but it was definitely a different level from what I have been doing for the last few months. 

I timed my run to finish just in time to go swimming. I decided on another set of 100m reps but this time starting on 2:30 instead of 2:00. I managed 16 of those in 1:40-ish and then a bit if a warm down. That puts me a whole swim session ahead of my plan already. 

Tuesday was my last chance to get out with Dexter before he goes home. We went out to Kirkhill and did some exploring. Then in the afternoon I started on all the jobs I was meant to do during the holidays but had completely ignored, and fixed the hob. In the evening I did my third yoga session. 

Wednesday was back to commuting, but obviously not everyone is back. That made for a fast ride in through the minimal traffic, and a sub-30 time on the mountain bike. It also made for more speeding motorists on the way home and one idiot that didn't think that cyclists needed any space on the road, and was willing to have three further attempts at trying to shout his views on cyclists using the road at me when I offered an alternate opinion after he nearly killed me. 

In the evening I went to bucksburn for a swim and worked through another baseline session. 5 x 200m with one minute rests. The first 3 were 3:21 but then I suffered and dropped to 3:29 and 3:33. I then paddled out the rest of a 30 minute session with alternate lengths of breast stroke and front crawl just to try and ease off before heading home and completing day 4 of yoga. 

Thursday I jogged in to work. We had planned a cinema trip in the evening but during the day she fell ill and decided she wasn't coming. That left me with two hours to kill on my own before the film and I decided to sneak in another short run before getting dinner. That took me past my run total with the weekend still to come. I got home late after the film but managed to get through my yoga session before heading for bed. 

Friday was an easy pair of mountain bike commutes and then about half of day 6 of yoga revolution in the evening. This is the first of this years sessions that I really didn't like and bailed out after about 15 minutes.

Saturday I woke up in time to jog to the pool, swim a mile worth of reps, jog home and still be in the shower before the other half was properly awake. In the evening I did the whole of the next yoga session and then followed that up with a short weights session. 

Sunday morning I considered going out on the bike or doing a faster run session but decided instead to focus on sticking to the plan and finishing off my core, stretching and yoga sessions for this week and having a bit of a rest day. 

Smashing my targets for this week, and cruising past all my stretch targets. And managing all of the extra sessions as well. Not unusual for the first week of the year. 



Target totals - Swim 3.0 miles. Bike 20.0 miles. Run 23.0 miles. 1 short core, 1 short light weights and 1 short stretching sessions. 20 mins of yoga.

Sunday - Run to granny's with Dexter 4.9 miles in 52 mins.
Yoga session - Yoga Revolution Day 1. 

Monday - Yoga session - Yoga Revolution Day 2.
Run 4.0 miles in 31 mins.
Swim at ASV 1,750m in 45 mins.

Tuesday - Run with Dexter at Kirkhill 5.0 miles in 68 mins.
Yoga session - Yoga Revolution Day 3.

Wednesday - Commute ride mtb to office 7.1 miles in 28 mins.
Commute ride mtb from office 7.1 miles in 41 mins.
Swim at bucksburn 1,400m in 32 mins.
Yoga session - Yoga Revolution Day 4.

Thursday - Commute run to office 6.9 miles in 63 mins.
Duthie park run 5.0 miles in 41 mins. 
Yoga session - Yoga Revolution Day 5.

Friday - Commute ride mtb to office 7.1 miles in 33 mins.
Commute ride mtb from office 7.0 miles in 37 mins.
Yoga session - Yoga Revolution Day 6 (maybe half of it)

Saturday - Run to Bucksburn 2.5 miles in 23 mins.
Swim at Bucksburn 1,600m in 36 mins.
Run from Bucksburn 2.5 miles in 25 mins.
Yoga session - Yoga Revolution Day 7.
Weights session

Sunday - Core session
Yoga session - Yoga Revolution Day 8
Stretching and rollering.


Actuals - Swim 3.0 miles (4,750 m). Bike 28.3 miles. Run 30.8 miles. 0 short core, 1 short light weights and 1 stretching / rollering session. 224 mins of yoga. 

Cumulative (Cumulative target) [Cumulative Stretch target]
S  3.0 (2.0)  [2.3],
B  28.3 (20.0)  [24.0],
R  30.8 (23.0)  [26.0].