Tuesday I was in two minds about resting my calf injury for another day but I decided to take an easy jog round the block to see how it was. It is a bit tight and achey but no longer the stabbing pain from the weekend. Probably still isn't ready for a serious test but I should be ok to get back onto gentle training already and hopefully be back up to speed early next week.
Wednesday I had an attack of common sense and decided not to run on my calf injury, but I did manage a trip to the pool. When I arrived and got changed I realised I hadn't started my GymPact and I didn't have any phone or wifi signal to start it. The fall back option is to do 30 minutes at 2miles per hour. That sounds easy if you are walking but is a decent pace in the pool. I decided I would just do a flat out 30 minutes and make sure I did at least a mile in that time.
I had a quick check of garmin to see my progress at 6 minutes and found it hadn't been counting laps. I stopped and fiddled with it a bit, and did another couple of lengths and it still wasn't working. So I turned it off and turned it on again. That worked but now I had to start from scratch with 400m of tired arms and the watch now said 1min and I hadn't started yet. I set off without resetting it (dumb in hindsight). I was trying to do the calls in my head from then on and fighting bouts of cramp as my calf strain tried to protect itself. I eventually clocked a further 2,100m in just over 39 mins. Total session of 2,500m in 45 mins. Not a great day, but not bad considering the cramp problems.
My longest swim session of the year, giving me my longest swim week of the year.
Thursday I decided on another easy loop to test out my calf strain. A bit quicker than Tuesday but still not particularly good.
Friday I didn't have time to fit anything in before we went to the cinema to see the Huntsman. When we got back in the evening I did a bit of a service on my winter bike so that I could take it out on the Saturday in what promised to be fairly terrible conditions.
Saturday was a planned club ride and some technical lessons on bike fitting. I had planned to just do the ride and then go home but I ended up staying for the rest of the day as well. The ride was a bit broken up as we stopped for some technique discussions at regular intervals. Even allowing for the breaks I actually rode quite well. Certainly better than I had expected to given all my missing bike miles and the conditions on the day.
Sunday's weather meant that I wasn't taking any bike outside so I decided to go for a long run instead. My calf strain is almost fixed but I wanted to build a bit of confidence on it so I decided to do everything I really shouldn't. I went for a long run, on an uneven surface, in the wet, with interspersed efforts trying to evade the zombies my 'Zombies, Run' app. All the possible things that might aggravate the existing injury. In hindsight that combination was probably a bit too high risk, but it seems to have worked out as I had no problems, even when I got a random zombie chase at the 9 miles mark and had to do a 100m effort.
In the afternoon I got the house to myself while the triathlon was on, so in between tracking athletes at Ironman South Africa and watching the Gold Coast Men's race I set up the turbo and spun away for 10 easy miles. Then I did a new rollering session and my first core session of the year. It seems the rollering I have been doing has been working, and that becomes abundantly clear when I try and roll an area that I haven't been doing in my previous routine.
While I am continuing to fall further behind my target bike miles for the year and well behind previous years I am actually not riding too badly for short sections. Time Trial season starts in the first week of May so I should get a better idea then, if not at Turriff next weekend.
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 - Swim with TPT 2,050m (1.3 miles) in 55mins.
Tuesday - Easy Dyce loop 3.6 miles in 34 mins
Wednesday - Swim at Bucksburn 2,500m (1.6 miles) in 46 mins.
Thursday - Jog Dyce 3.9 miles in 35 mins.
Friday - Rest day.
Saturday - TPT Training day ride 21.9 miles in 2 hrs 18 mins.
Sunday - Long steady run 9.2 miles in 1 hour 20mins.
Turbo 10 miles in 38 mins.
Core session.
Rollering session.
Actuals - Swim 2.9 miles (4,550 m). Bike 31.9 miles. Run 16.7 miles. 1 short core, 0 short light weights and 1 stretching/rollering session. 0 mins of yoga.
Cumulative (Cumulative target) [Cumulative Stretch target]
S 28.8 (26.8) [30.9],
B 523.0 (637.7) [797.1],
R 243.1 (220.7) [249.4].
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