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Another very long week has finished. One in which my legs were very tired and I was not able to put in so many long swims due to different reasons; and where my two biggest proposals for the upcoming weeks were mostly thrown to the trash, although they might pick one up, although my hopes are near none.
This time the week started on Monday with a swim. A had been sick the week and last Sunday was the first one that I rejoined my normal schedule, therefore I decided to have a swim on Monday.
As always Tuesday was one of the longest days of the week. Since I knew the opening hours of the swimming pool are not my desired ones and I did not need to work on transition I started the week with a run with hills at the beginning and tempo after them. Then I went to work and after it I went to the swimming pool for the long swim, too bad I had not been able to put more of this; this past week. After the swim I jumped on the bike for some anaerobic endurance and endurance.
On Wednesday I started with a swim in the morning, shorter than I wanted it to be because of pool summer opening hours and work. Nevertheless I have been putting around 3km per swim session on short swims. Then I went to work and afterwards I started the second session of the day. I did a long bike ride mostly about muscular endurance and then a transition to run. During the run I felt quite fast which it was a nice surprise, although I was far from the 4min/km I was probably 4 or 5 over it, not too bad not good.
By Thursday I was very tired, my legs were stiff but my motivation was high. I started with a 1h swim in the morning and instead of technique work I decided to shift it to a force one. Then I went to work and afterwards I went for a 30minutes run with a friend and then I took off on my own, I decided to take the bike lane and I came back that it was dark and hard to know where to put my feet. I ended up doing the last 5km in 20mins 15seconds, 15 seconds above the desired pace but it was a good average since I did not have any references for most of these 20 minutes.
On Friday I had a swim in the morning and then after a long day at work I had an easy bike ride for nearly 2h followed by a 45minutes run. Even though it was not the day that I felt the best I actually beat my farthest distance in the course.
On Saturday I started fairly early for me at around 9.30, then I went pick up a friend who was waiting for me in St Feliu and up to my hometown, but before we got there we decided to take a long ride, I can get to my hometown from my normal starting point in 80minutes, this Saturday it took us 165minutes to get there. On my way back it was hot and windy, as hilly as on my way out but the sun was hot, the wind warm and I was slightly tired. I transitioned and I started to run, even though I ran under 4minutes/km it was not the fastest run even, in fact I was 30seconds above my minimum acceptable time. Although checking the conditions in which I ran, I can consider I ran fairly well. In the afternoon I wanted to swim for a little bit but it got too late, and I was too tired, also it was not part of the plan so in the end I did not swim.
Sunday was different than most Sundays. I had a swim race, probably my first swim only race of my life but I did not even consider as such. Also I don’t usually take the bike on Sundays and I rode twice, first a 90minutes till the race and then 60minutes until home. The race consisted of not even 1km, because my friend and I considered it was too short and we are not fast, we go long, we decided to swim from the finish line to the start line and then we raced. I did fairly well but with less volume I could’ve done a lot better I guess. Also before the race started I felt lazy and I did not want to get into a fight to have my spot, but once we started I got all my laziness off myself and started to race, 13:12. Then in the afternoon I went for a run. My legs felt like concrete, they were extremely stiff but I managed to make it to the minimum.
Also this week my two proposals were turned down after being approved. So at this point I don’t know what I am going to do and I went through a tough weekend all along. I was lucky enough to have a lot of training scheduled to restart fresh and careless. Sometimes people lie and sometimes things just take longer than expected. So what is it this time? Does it just take long or he lied?
I had to put a lot of mental strength to get over it and stay focus on what I have to do. I have one goal, or maybe two or even three, who knows? I do who knows my goals; I do know them and no one else. And I am not keen enough to share them yet. Maybe someday I will share them or I could just keep them to myself even if I achieve them.
Can it be that I am in one of those moments that I don’t want to happen what looks like it is going to happen? There are times where you want something and that is impossible and there are other moments where you don’t want it and it happens. Which one of them is now? Or none of them? So many times that I have been wrong that I don’t even want to know the what if.
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