August, week 1

Well its been a better week for me this week. Still haven't made it back to the pool... The happenings in my personal life are making it difficult to get there before work at the moment. But my running and biking are both back on track. I only did 3/4 planned bikes this week... missed a morning interval session. But I ended up with a total of 2 hours 53 minutes. And running was a complete success. 4 runs, for a total of 38km in 3 hours 49 minutes.

The bad point is that I'm showing some signs of injury in my right leg. I was tight in the calf, but that has migrated into a sore ankle / knee, at different times when running. To try to combat this I slowed my runs down until I'm feeling right again and I've taken 4 days in a row without a run. Hopefully feeling right for my first run back tonight.

Goals for August

Well I need to put something into writing to help keep me on track... I'm not aiming too high for mileage or hours this month, with my personal life I know that there's no way I'm going to get all my planned workouts in. But you've still got to aim for something. So, in no particular order, here we go:

1. Weigh under 98kg by months end. (Consistently under, not dropping temporarily under)
2. Swim: Start swimming again (it's been 4 weeks since I was in the pool) 4 times for the month
3. Bike: Minimum 10 hours for the month, target is 14 hours
4. Run: Minimum 100km for the month, target is 120km

Last month I scored 1/5, this month I'm aiming for 100% but would be happy with 2/4 I think.

July, End of the Month

Well July has now gone, and it has not been a good time.

I've had quite a shock in my personal life 2 weeks ago, hence why I've not been posting for a few weeks. I don't want to get into it in a public forum like this at this stage, but the last few weeks have been quite emotionally draining, and that's unlikely to change in the foreseeable future. So things are tough.

Training wise, the first 2 weeks of the month pretty much went to plan, not enough swimming, but pretty much on target for time working out. The 2nd 2 weeks however were not so good. Pretty much just fitting workouts in as I've been able.

So of the 5 goals I set myself for the month I've only made one. to weigh under 100kg by the end of the month. And that was close too... weighing in at 99.7kg today. But it has been under 100kg (down as low as 98) for 2 weeks.

Once again I'll come up with some goals for the month over the next few days, but this month they are going to be somewhat limited by what else is going on at the moment.

Lastly, here is the training log for the month:

July, Week 1

Back into training after my rest week. And reasonably happy with what I accomplished. But as usual room for improvement.

One of the things that I've realized is that I am running too much for this stage of my training plan. I'm not biking or swimming as much as I want to be, but I'm still meeting my weekly time targets. I don't see any point in taking a step back on the amount of running that I'm doing, so I may end up doing more time than planned the next 2 weeks, to get my biking and swimming numbers up a bit...

This week I only made the pool once, for an easy 1250m,
Biked 3 times, twice for 45 minute interval sessions watching the TdF, and a 90 minute long ride on the trainer.
Running, 2 10ks mid week and a 15k long run on Saturday. The long run was a bit disappointing, my pace was well down from where my previous long runs have been. But so long as its not the start of a trend I'm not getting worried about it.

For next week, its just a case of keep on going how I've been going... reasonably happy with things at the moment.

Some Goals

The next 4-6 weeks are looking like they are going to be very busy for work, As an example I spent the first 2 and 1/2 days of this week out of town. So it is going to be tough to do all the workouts that I want to.

With that in mind I have come up with some goals for the month of July.

1. Weigh under 100kg before the end of the month. (as in permanantly weigh, not dip under and back up to 101 again)
2. Start Strength training. (Body weight exercises, twice a week by the end of the month)
3. Swim: twice a week, 30 minutes a session.
4. Bike: 14 hours for the month
5: Run: at least 120km for the month

Lets see how it goes...

Rest Week

My rest week went well.

I did all my workouts, (3 x bike, 3 x run, 2 x swim) and kept them all short and low intensity. The only negative is that I'm not feeling as rested as I'd hoped by the end of the week.

Still it's on to my next block of training, the next 4 weeks should be quite similar to the previous 4, with the exception of spending more time on the bike. I'm out of town for the start of next week on buisness, so that is going to result in a slow start to the week... and a chance for a little more rest, which is good.

That's all for now... not much I know, Hopefully I'll post again this week with some goals for the month.

June, the end

June's now over, and on the whole it's gone well.

Swimming: Definitely getting back on track, I think I'm about where I need to be this far out. 8.75km in 3:23

Biking: The disappointment of the 3 sports, Need to be doing much more. only 229km in 9:09

Running: I'd say I'm probably ahead of schedule here... definitely going the best of the 3 sports at this stage. 158km in 15:22

And finally, here is the log for june: