7th week to frankfurt

I have just completed the second week with the biggest volume of the plan. It has been hard on the number of hours but it could have been worse.

I am actually quite happy on how I feel overall, even though my biggest weakness is still the same, the bike.

This week I have put in more than 60 percent of the training volume on the bike and yet I am still not quite happy with the results, I guess it just takes time and I still have more than 4 months to go.

On Monday I did the normal triple session increasing the volume on the bike and in the water. It was the first time that I was doing more than 2hours on the trainer and they passed by pretty fast, just the opposite of the water session. The run had no mystery, just to a few kilometers in but not very intense yet.

On Tuesday, I did my bike in the morning and then in the afternoon while running I had an unpleasant friend visiting me that made me stop the run and I even had thoughts about my own safety out in the road. It was cold and I was wet and I could not run because this unpleasant friend was the hail. I had to stop for a few minutes and it did not feel good. I have always said that rain was worse than wind or snow, hail is worse than rain.

On Wednesday I did my recovery session on the bike and then the shortest swim of the week.

On Thursday I had another tough bike ride in the morning followed by a technique run session in the afternoon. The bike ride was tough; I have started to introduce some muscular endurance which is a must that I need to work on. And the running technique is a must this season, once per week I work on my running skills.

On Friday I had scheduled another triple session. The bike session was a recovery one, the run session was a Mexican fartlek of 7 to 3 and another long swim. Out if the three sessions I felt the best in the water, the last session of the day, where I should have been the most tired, unbelievable.

Finally on Saturday I went for my long ride of the week. It was very windy and I decided to climb a bit so the average speed fell dramatically. I had to push a little bit also because of the threatening rain. Only a few drops fell but it was extremely dark and I seriously thought that it was going to rain, therefor I finished the ride with two laps around my town, just in case I would be home.

The week started very grey and ended up a little lighter. I have not been enjoying much what I used even though my sports related activities are still fun. I have been missing something in the past few weeks and it just bothers me because it was something that I did not expect to go wrong. Will I be able to speak it up?

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