Training Review - Week 1 - Jan 1 to 3

Not really a whole week so no surprises with the numbers here. No swimming this week but two runs, a bike ride and 3 yoga sessions on the plan.

Starting the year with an easy jog to granny's house with Dexter to first-foot her was easy enough. Then we dropped Dexter back home. His Xmas holiday has made it easy to rack up a lot of short runs in the last couple of weeks, but they have been slow. Now he is gone I can get back to adding distance and speed. We also skipped his planned trip to Scolty for a walk to finish his holiday. With the recent flooding it didn't seem the best idea to head into the middle of the affected area.

Yoga camp started with an introductory video. So I chose an alternate session to kickstart the year and did a couple of refreshers from Adriene's foundations of yoga set instead. Then I went on a tidying binge in the garage for about 4 hours and somehow made almost no headway.

Saturday I woke up to another storm. I decided to wait until the afternoon, put the kettle on, sat down, put my feet up to read a bit more of the Brownlees' book and noticed the rain had stopped. So a quick change of plan again and I headed out into the break between the worst of the weather. I decided to take the opportunity to tick off the Strava January 10k challenge before I have to go back to work. 

In the afternoon I did the first real session of January yoga camp, and then in the evening I did a very short weights session. 

Sunday I thought about braving the rain, but 50 mph winds are definitely not what I consider as appropriate biking weather so I finally got over my turbo aversion and set it up in the hallway for an hour. I started with a plan just to sit on it for an hour but I was getting too bored so I put in 10 x 1min efforts. I am going to claim a standard speed of 15mph on turbo and spin sessions for now as they are pretty much unmeasurable without a much more expensive turbo trainer. 

Then in the afternoon I did the next session from yoga camp.

With Dexter's help and because I have been on holiday, I have accidentally run a marathon this week, and 50 miles in the last fortnight. It won't show up in my spreadsheet or in the numbers here because of the way it spans two separate years, but it is still worth noting as the longest running week for over 2 years and my longest fortnight since 2011.

I set a weekly target for he bike this week because I expected to get out on Sunday, but then I saw the weather before I wrote my annual plan and I adjusted it so the S-curve for biking actually has a blank week. So I am already ahead of the annual plan on running and biking.

Target totals - Swim 0 miles. Bike 35.0 miles. Run 8.0 miles. 0 short core, 1 short light weights and 0 short stretching sessions. 60 mins of yoga.

Friday - Run to Granny's house 5.2 miles in 53 mins.
Yoga session 12 mins.

Saturday - Run 6.3 miles in 56 mins. 
Yoga session 31 mins.

Sunday - Turbo 1 hour. [30 min spin, 10 x 1min on / 1 min off, 10 min spin] ~15 miles.
Yoga session 52 mins.

Actuals - Swim 0 miles (0 m). Bike 15 miles. Run 11.5 miles. 0 short core, 1 short light weights and 0 short stretching sessions. 95 mins of yoga.

Cumulative (Cumulative target) [Cumulative Stretch target]
S 0.0  (0.0)  [0.0], 
B 15.0  (0.0)  [0.0],
R 11.5  (6.6)  [7.4].