Starting a lazy week as I crammed a yoga session, an easy run, a stretching session, bought a new mtb, had a wedding planning meeting, trimmed all the hedges, set-up my new mtb, test rode new mtb, and then went to club swimming. A complete fail on the laziness plan but lots of useful things done and a couple of jobs crossed off the, still extensive, DIY list.
Tuesday I had another wedding planning meeting, or three, during the day. Then I took a nap instead of a quick yoga session before going to the Time Trial Evening League for a 15-mile TT. That was the first of many bad choices. Wrong clothing, wrong glasses, wrong gear at the start. Then once the race started things didn't improve. I didn't get away well and couldn't find any sort of mental drive to put any effort in. I had a few little niggles and tight spots that came and went and my heart rate never got above 155 for the entire race and I ended 42 seconds slower than last year despite the better conditions.
This performance could have given me a confidence wobble but the fact that I was not working anywhere near my limit and the main reason was mental rather than physical means I can write it off as a bad day without even having to justify the slower time. I had in my plan that if it wasn't going well I would bail out and treat it as a TT training ride. While I didn't consciously make that choice till 40 minutes in I think my subconscious had decided within the first mile.
Biggest lesson learned was that I am too deep into my training phase. So my taper starts much more seriously now. Wednesday's run and swim has become an easy jog and a bit of a paddle. Thursday and Friday become as light as possible with Saturday becoming a complete rest day. And next week gets cut right down as well.
Wednesday I had arranged to meet people at Knockburn to run and swim but I scaled down my plan to just a short easy run and then a couple of steady swim laps.
Thursday I did a very easy ride in the morning just to get my 30-min GymPact in. Then spent the rest of the day painting the spare room and working on my new mtb. I stripped and serviced the rear axle but somehow ended up with a leftover spacer when I had reassembled it. Unsurprisingly this resulted in the rebuilt wheel not running quite as smoothly as I had hoped.
Friday I had an early start to go to a business breakfast meeting and then a trip to the hospital to finally see a Urologist about my kidney stone. I then completely failed to take a rest day again. I planned an easy 30-minute cycle and instead ended up doing 45 minutes at about the same heart rate as Tuesday's TT, then I went for a short brick run as well. I then stripped and rebuilt my mtb rear axle again, and put all the parts in it this time. And just to ensure my day was a total failure on the rest front I did my short weights session as well.
Saturday I finally got into proper tapering mode and had a rest day. I did some yoga and stretching before breakfast and then put my feet up for the rest of the day. The biggest interruption to that was a trip to John Lewis to do some wedding shopping.
Sunday's Knockburn Aquathlon will get a post to itself. After I got home from that I still felt quite fresh and it was a beautiful sunny day so I took my bike out for an easy loop around Dyce. Mostly to tick off my bike miles for the week but also to clear my legs out a little.
This has been the first time this year that I have missed my run target for the week. I am not really bothered about that though. It is a tight miss at about 1 mile short and I am so far ahead of my running for the year that this target has become a bit if a red herring.
Target totals - Swim 1.9 miles. Bike 45.5 miles. Run 13.9 miles. 1 short core, 1 short light weights and 2 short stretching sessions. 60 mins of yoga.
Monday - Yoga session 15 mins.
Easy run 3.4 miles in 32 mins.
Stretching and rollering session.
New mob test ride 1.1 miles in 8 mins.
Swim with TPT 1,900m in 49 mins.
Tuesday - DTCC TT 15-mile 45:12.
Warm up / down 4.2 miles in 16 mins.
Wednesday - Easy run 3.6 miles in 35 mins.
OW Swim 1,500m in 30 mins.
Thursday - Very easy ride 6.5 miles in 34 mins.
Friday - Steady ride 11.9 miles in 44 mins.
Brick run 1.4 miles in 13 mins.
Light weights session.
Saturday - Rest Day
Yoga session.
Stretching and rollering session.
Sunday - Warm up jog 1.4 miles in 14 mins.
Stretching session.
Scottish Aquathlon Championships - Knockburn.
- Swim 750 m in 12:08.
- Run 3.0 miles in 20:25.
Easy ride 10 miles in 38 mins.
Actuals - Swim 2.6 miles (4,150 m). Bike 48.7 miles. Run 12.7 miles. 0 short core, 1 short light weights and 1 stretching/rollering session. 15 mins of yoga.
Cumulative (Cumulative target) [Cumulative Stretch target]
S 45.8 (40.3) [46.3],
B 922.3 (956.5) [1195.6],
R 372.8 (322.0) [363.8].
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