Training Review - Week 7 - Feb 8 to 14

Monday I was still feeling terrible. The swim set that came out containing a lot of sculling and no word on whether the heaters were fixed. I decided to just go to Bucksburn and do a solo session. That gave me time to do an easy spin on the turbo for 40 minutes. At swimming I decided to do a set of 200m reps, starting every 5 minutes. I set a comfortable 3:26 for the first one and decided to keep churning them out till I dropped outside 3:30. That took till rep number 7. I tried a warm down of breast stroke from there but cramped up on the next length and decided to finish it up for the day. 

Tuesday I did an easy loop of Dyce and then a yoga session. Wednesday I went to the club fartlek session, which went really well. Then I went to Bucksburn pool and did 10 x 100m, which were ok, but I was running out of gas. Thursday was a quick spin on the turbo.

Friday I travelled to Elgin so that I could race on Saturday at Forres. Saturday I had a shit run, and only got my weekly miles by accident. 

Sunday I sat on the turbo for a while but even that came up way short of plan.

As the short post might indicate I am still suffering from motivation and depression problems, but the numbers show that despite that I am managing to force myself to go to some sessions and keep doing a chunk of the work I wanted to be doing. I have dropped behind my stretch swim target, and drifted even further from my bike numbers.


Target totals - Swim 1.9 miles. Bike 45.5 miles. Run 15.3 miles. 1 short core, 1 short light weights and 0 short stretching sessions. 60 mins of yoga.

Monday - Turbo 40 mins ~10.0 miles.
Swim at Bucksburn 1,450m in 37 mins.

Tuesday - Run 4.3 miles in 37 mins.
Yoga session 37mins

Wednesday - TPT Fartlek 5.3 miles in 46 mins.
Swim at Bucksburn, 1,000m in 20 mins.

Thursday - Turbo 8 miles in 32 mins.

Friday - Rest day

Saturday - Yoga session 20 mins.
Warm up 2.1 miles in 22 mins.
NDXCL Forres - DNF. 3.6 miles in 33 mins.

Sunday - Turbo 19 miles in 1 hr 16 mins.

Actuals - Swim 1.5 miles (2,450 m). Bike 37.0 miles. Run 15.3 miles. 0 short core, 0 short light weights. 57 mins of yoga.

Cumulative (Cumulative target) [Cumulative Stretch target]
S 12.7  (11.5)  [13.2],
B 229.6  (273.3)  [341.6],
R 113.6  (98.3) [111.1].