The Week's Training

For those of you who might not realise, my training weeks run from Sunday to Saturday. This means that I get a big session out of the way on the first day, rather than having it hang over me all week, ad if anything does go wrong, I have the rest of the week to make it up.

This was a much better week. Okay - it's mainly biking and strength/core work, with not a lot of swimming in there, or running! This is something that needs addressing - and will be addressed, but there is some method in my madness.

w/c 17/9/06	Other	Other time	Swim (m)	Swim time	Bike (mi)	Bike time	Run (mi)	Run time	Total time
Sunday									00:00
Monday	weights	00:40	0.25	00:10					00:50
Tuesday									00:00
Wednesday	body pump	00:45			38.25	02:34			03:19
Thursdy	pilates	00:50		00:35					01:25
Friday	yoga	01:00							01:00
Saturday	UB weights and abs	01:10	0.25	00:09	50.35	03:34			04:53
Totals		4:25	0.50	0:54	88.60	6:08	0.00	00:00:00	11:27

For instance - swimming! Okay - I haven't worked on stamina for a while, and will get back to that, but my main concern was over a technique issue - namely sighting in open water. Without that, all the endurance in the world won't help. So - I'm spending a while getting that right and will then get back to endurance swimming in the pool over the winter.

Running - well, that needs to be good, but then again, Lindi did her first IM in 12:30 or so, off a longest run of 16 miles.

The key factor for me (as logn as I can beat the swim cut off) is to come off the bike feeling okay - which means toughening up my legs to cope with 112 miles of biking. And yet biking had been the discipline I'd paid the least attention to, partly becuase it bored me. Now - with the brill SW London training group, I'm getting out there and thoroughly enjoying my cycling. Sure - there's a long way to go, but I'm stuck into the biking. The running does need to be brought back into focus though, so that'll happen through October, as will the swimming - I can't see much more than a couple more OW swims getting done!