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Due to the crazy hours at work I had to miss one day of training. The week has been complicated trying to balance training and work. Also, it has been the first week of the build period and sure it is harder than before. Volume has decreased a little bit but the intensity is harder.
So the week started on Wednesday because of too much work on Tuesday. I started the week with a long and tough swim, I was doing muscular endurance and it is hard to keep up. Then I went to work and after work I had a transition session of 105mins on the bike and 45mins running. By the end of the day my legs were tired.
On Thursday I went to the swimming pool in the morning, short session but with a lot of intensity. Then I went to work for 12h and when I finished I had the long run of the week, 2h running. My legs were not feeling fresh from the day before and for some unknown reason I only took one gel with me. The run became a hard one where I had to pull a lot of mental strength to finish strong. The numbers did not show what I wanted to see, I was way too slow, and I struggled too much in the last hill, I lost 3mins and 30 seconds from the first hour to the second, this means that I was almost 1kmh slower in the second hour. Even though the profile of the run was not the best to check the pace like I did the reality is what it is, but I need to improve the pace by at least 7seconds per km. Then I went back to work to finish some issues.
On Friday I had to change the order of the training and I was thinking to do the bike in the morning but I slept in. So I went to work and then late in the evening I started training. Since I had not been able to run in some daylight for several days I decided to start with some running first before heading the water. In the swimming pool I had another hard and long session. When I finished I went home, took a short power nap and I started my 90mins bike ride.
On Saturday I started the bike ride a little late. The course that I took was not the most difficult one. When I started I felt slow and out of feeling which I was able to overcome as the kilometers were being ridden. I was almost caught by the rain. And I finally was able to finish much stronger than I started. I felt like I could’ve done a lot more and the proof is that when I run I ran under 14mins30seconds my normal 4.2km after the long bike ride. I was not happy with my bike performance but I ended up feeling good with my run.
On Sunday, I had plan to swim on the sea but the weather was not good enough and I decied to move to the swimming pool. So, I started the day with a swim that I had to shorten it by ten minutes, although it was a tough swim of anaerobic endurance, the ten minutes that I shortened it were the calm down meters, so the main set was finished. Then I went to lunch and after a nap I went for a run. I don’t usually workout on Sunday’s afternoon because I do everything in the morning but today I hadn’t finished my sessions. During the run I felt very heavy all the time and I felt like I was running at tempo and I was happy enough to go back with the same time that I went out.
I am worried. My training times are not the times that I would like to be doing. I need to get faster and stronger and I don’t have much time to do it. Taking a close look to my plan I can’t blame it much on it. It looks well organized and I followed it very well. The problem is that I had not been in the sport long enough or that my physical capabilities are not as good as I would like to think. I just hope I don’t meet my goals because of the volume and by the time of the race with good tapering I will be able to perform well.
Also this week my mind has been a little bit all over the place. I don’t know where I am heading and what is going to happen with it but I am not quite happy with the timing and the way that I feel. Right now it is not the moment to have such feelings. When will be a good moment? I don’t know that either. But having my mind not focused on a 5h bike ride is not good. It reminds me the old times and I don’t like it. I need to overcome these feelings. I hope I can do it like I’ve done in the past. Besides, our situation is not the best for it to happen.
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