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Too much working no working out this week. At least this is what happen the 1st half of the wee.
I was supposed to start big on Tuesday but instead I barely had the will and power to swim. It was a good swim but starting at 6 in the morning and leaving work at 6 in the afternoon when the next day you have to be there by 6.30 does not leave you a lot of energy to do much. And it even gets worse when you have to clean everything, cook for the next day, feed yourself and sleep. There were moments where it was hard to choose. Also I started a little mad with myself because I wanted to start running but that meant to get up at 3.45 in the morning and start running at 4. I did get up that early but I it was too dark and I decided to go back to sleep, the inside fight lasted 30mintues, that was the time that I needed to fall sleep again.
Wednesday pretty much happened the same as the day before except that I knew it was too late to start putting some workout in the morning. I did not behave well on Tuesday and I just had to carry with it for the rest of the week.
On Thursday I started work very early as well. As always I had an appointment to jog with friends. So as soon as I left work I check the time, oh no! it is too late to fit everything in!!! So I decided to swim 1500m straight, nonstop, I needed to build some confidence. The plan had been changed from a 1hish on the pool to 1500m nonstop descending every 500m and so I did. First 500m, where I believe I swam extra 50 9m46s, 35s above a normal warm up. Second 500s 8m 16s I was getting faster and last 500s I did it in 8m6s, I couldn’t believe it it was my fastest 1500m ever by more than 2minutes and going very slow at the beginning so I was pumped, then I decided to run fast, I went from Tennis d’Aro to Sta Cristina’s Carrilet station and back, 10km and I did it in 38m. I was just 30s slower than my best ever, and I am not even feeling fast yet. I was excited. Then I went for a slower run with friends.
On Friday I needed to swim and ride the bike but I just had energy for one thing and I chose swimming. I feel ashamed for this. I was getting to Saturday and I even had not had a bike ride in the whole week, but I was too tired, I had worked around 60h this week.
On Saturday I did the long bike ride as scheduled but this time I changed my route I decided to go as close to Cadaqués as I could and I managed to get to Roses in 5h30m round trip. It was quite windy, I had over 4l of sports drinks, 11 gels and at some points I was feeling very tired. But then I changed to run for 15m and in seemed like I was fresh again, I pulled up a pretty good run and even at night I was not feeling as tired as I used to. That felt good.
On Sunday morning I made it to the pool and then to run. I was actually surprised how well I was swimming and running. I guess I recovered well. I averaged 4m8s/km which I did not expect to go that fast. In the afternoon I went to play some pitch and putt. I wanted to play only 9 holes but my friends induced me to play 18 and my legs were fine. Also I probably did my best round ever and it was the second one, only +5, which meant 5 fours and 4 3s.
All I know this week is that I had to work a lot of time, I had to choose between training, eating or sleeping, I could only do 2 of them. And I know deep down I had a lot of fun even though I was mad to myself the first two days because I was not disciplined enough.
A lot of things go through my head when I trained but every day I have new things to think and to go through. Sometimes it is an old friend of mine, other times it is work, other times it is calculating the splits and some other time just calculating intake while training. And even though I train many hours and it is not easy I am happy doing all these. It is hard to stay focus all the time but so far I have not had too many distractions.
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