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I nearly nailed this week; I was only 2h short of training or a 10% short.
It was Tuesday when I started the training week, nothing out of ordinary. The difference this time was the amount of training, second longest day of the week, and the number of sessions; 3 sessions but one of them was a brick so we could considered that I almost had 4 sessions. I started the day with some 30mins bike ride followed by a 45mins run. Then I went to work and when I came back I biked again for 90minutes and finished with a 45mins swim. I had to change the original schedule because I am still sharing the car and I need to do some chores if I take the car.
On Wednesday I was only 10minutes short on training so it could be considered that I trained alright. 50minutes swim in the morning followed by a 100minutes bike ride in the afternoon, then the chores and then 50 minutes at the pool again.
Thursday is supposed to be a shorter day; not for being shorter it is easier. So I started with the morning swim and then in the afternoon I ran my first 75 minutes in a very long time. I took some sports drink with me but I felt the lag of habit of such a long run. After the run I went to the swimming pool for 30minutes only (500m warm up, 3x 75m easy, 25m fast, 100m cool down) and then I went to the gym to do some stretches.
On Friday I was another hour short again. I started the day with the morning swim as always and then in the afternoon I had a course in Girona, it was the last day and we were catching up on a missed day so I had to go and the 2h bike ride that I had planned I only did 1h of easy riding just to get comfortable from Thursday’s run and getting ready for Saturday’s ride.
On Saturday I wasn’t feeling too good, well I haven’t felt too good the whole week but on Saturday I was feeling a bit worse. I had 4h and 30 minutes on the saddle and 15minutes running ahead of me. It was a day with weird feelings. I felt very good on the bike. Riding a lot of time aero and feeling pretty good, I have just started the plan, but then I transitioned to run and that’s when I felt awful. I had to run for 15 minutes only and that’s what I did I couldn’t get much further plus I felt like stepping on eggs for 15 minutes I was not able to use a good running form or at least it did not feel like it. It was the first time it took me that long to start running properly, even though I ran pretty fast.
On Sunday I woke up a bit late, feeling slightly better than Saturday but not perfect. I went for a swim, 3000 meters and most of them being able to complete them without extra help, and by extra help I mean fins. I only used my fins at the end of the session for 450 meters. After the swim I went for a run, surprisingly it took me about 5 minutes to feel good and not weird as Saturday. In the afternoon I played 18 holes of pitch and putt but I don’t count them as training although it should be some kind of endurance training.
It is quite hard to get up at 6:20h every morning except for Mondays, although I have been very good to go to sleep not after 23h so I usually get at least 7h and most of the days I get 8h sleep which it makes it easier to train.
I am not quite sure if it is because I go to sleep early or because by the time that I get to work I have been up for nearly three hours but I feel like I have heaps of energy at work.
I hope to move out soon, but I need one big thing so I will be able to go to work it is a vehicle. I know what I want, I have put a lot of thought in to it and I need to be realistic on what I can afford and what I can’t. Hopefully I’ll have a deal soon.
Training nearly 20h a week, working 40h and commuting other 5h and sleeping about 56h a week don’t leave me much time to do much stuff, but the best is that I am enjoying what I do.
This week I have signed out of my local swimming pool and I’ll be joining a different one, closer to where I work. I am sad because I was able to swim very well in that pool but if I can save some money and gain some time it is always worth it, the longest weeks are yet to come.
Finally I will say that I am not putting much thought in to anything else. I do have time to think during a four hours bike ride but surprisingly I don’t think about it as much as I used to do and I don’t miss it much.
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