June, Week 4

Last week was the last week before a cut back week, so as you would imagine I’ve been feeling a bit tired, definitely approaching the limit of how much training I can handle. I have no doubt that that amount will increase over time, but for now this is the limit.

I was out of town for work 2 days during the week, the result of this is that I missed one of my short bikes. Other than that I achieved everything that I set out to do for the week.

Swimming, twice at the pool this week, for 2500m total in 58 minutes.

Biking, as I said I missed one of my short bikes, so I had 1 interval session and 1 long (zone 2/3) ride on the trainer for a total of 59km in 2 hours 22 minutes.

Running, all good this week, 2 x 10km midweek runs and a long, 18km run on Sunday for a total of 38km in 3 hours 47 minutes. No speed work this week however, as I was starting to feel a bit tired…

As I said above, this week is a cutback week. I haven’t decided exactly how it will take shape, but one thing I want to focus on is increasing the amount of time I spend on the bike relative to running/swimming, I’m quite happy with the amount of running and swimming I’m doing, but know that I’m not doing enough on the bike. 

June, Week 3

Another good, consistent week of training this week.

Running wise, almost exactly the same as last week, 3 runs, 35km in 3 hours 23 minutes.
Biking, slightly less than last week, 3 times on the trainer again, but only making  1 and 1/4 hours for my long ride, instead of the 1 and 1/2 I was supposed to do.
Swimming was an improvement, made it to the pool twice, for 2500m in just under an hour.

This week is supposed to be a peak before a rest week to start end the month with. To do that my long run is planned to stretch out to 18km, an my long ride to at least 90 - 100 minutes, the rest of the week is going to stay the same as the last 2 weeks.

June, Week 2

Things went fairly well this week, I completed pretty much everything I planned to do.

Running was the same as last week, 3 runs, 1 easy, 1 tempo and 1 long. Once again I set a new 10km PB on my tempo run. Total for the week was 35km in 2 hours 53 minutes

Biking was better this week, on the bike 3 times. All my workouts were inside on the trainer, so the distances don’t mean that much. But I did 2 Interval workouts, 1 30min, 1 50min and a long, steady ride on the weekend of 90 minutes.

Swimming? Only one swim this week. Did the same 1250m pyramid workout that I’ve been doing recently, in 29:30 this time.

For next week there is a nice simple goal I want to match what this weeks numbers. 

Goodbye May

I had a reasonably good week to finish off May, without being fantastic. As I said previously I was going to be having an enforced break due to being out of town on business during the week. Well work didn't go quite as planned so I was gone longer than expected which put a bigger dent in my training.

This week only one bike, on Monday inside on the trainer. The news here is that I've brought some spinerval DVD's, to try and give me some direction when using the trainer. So Monday was my first spinerval experience and I think its going to work well.

2 swims, both 1250m pyramid workouts, nothing exciting to report here.

And running, only 3 times this week, all at once tho, 10k Thursday and Friday and 15 on Sunday. It made for a long few days, and some tired legs by the end of the weekend. The good thing here is that, when doing a tempo run on Thursday, I set a new PB for 10km.

And finally, my training log graph for the month... Somewhat dominated by the Northern Crossing.

May, week 4

What to say this week. Nothing amazing and unexpected to report, pretty much just been carrying on how I have been for the last few weeks.

I did take things a little easier than previous weeks, Monday was 14 days without a break, which I think is really too much for me as I was starting to feel run down / worn out by the end. So I only got on the bike once to drop the hours a bit, but kept up with the running schedule.

Running wise things are looking good. I feel that I'm starting to get back to where I was at earlier in the year. And I do have the numbers to back it up too. I ran a 24:40 5km this week, which is about a minute faster than I've managed before. I also had my first long run for a while, 15km, which I knocked out, quite easily, in 1:25:24. So I'll give it another week or so before I make the call, but Wellington is looking more likely. Over all I ran 38km in 3 hours 33, biggest week of the year for the 2nd week running.

I'll be away for work again for one, possibly 2 nights next week. So I'll be having another enforced break, not that that's a bad thing...

May, week 3

A good week this week, where I got through pretty much everything I set out to do.

The negative for the week was swimming, I only made it to the pool once, when I had been aiming for twice. I had 3 bikes, twice on the trainer, and once outside in the real world for about 2 and a half hours, about what I'm wanting at this stage.

But like I've said previously, the big focus at the moment is running, 4 runs this week, for 36km in 3 and a half hours. Which is actually my highest weekly distance of the year.

So I'm pretty happy. This week I'm going to be out of town Tuesday and Sunday nights for work so will be having some enforced breaks. The target for the week has to be running again, aiming for more than last week.

May, week 2

My supposed recovery week, after the northern crossing has now gone. And it's been a pretty good one for me. 8 workouts, over 6 days, pretty much what I had planned. 

I'm going into a run focus for the next few weeks, I feel that my run fitness peaked back in march, and I've tapered off slightly since then. The problem with trying to get back to where I was is that with the current time of year, it's getting dark to early to be consistently running long distances after work. To get around tis I'll be upping things to 4 runs a week, 3 during the week, after work and 1 long run in the weekend.

Biking is going to mainly consist of trainer workouts, but once a fortnight I want to be out doing a long hilly course. 

I've also made it to the pool for the first time since the Kumara Tri back in the first week of April. Only once this week, but will be aiming for twice a week for the next few weeks. Just to get the feel for it again. 

My weekly totals, Run: 32km, 3:18, Bike: 76km, 2:30, Swim:1000m, 26 min.