Highs and Lows

Well it wasn't all bad this week, it only ended with the low after what had been a really positive start. I am starting to see a pattern with my training that a PB or a perfect day of training is often followed with a period of illness or sluggish training. I remember reading somewhere that it is the body's way of getting ready to fight illness. It uses all its energy to make itself stronger in preparation to attack the bug or virus that is about to make you ill. This time just before I get ill seems to be when I perform to my best ability, largely paying the price just after.

So I ended this week with a nasty stomach bug that forced me to stay within close proximity of a toilet for most of the weekend. I changed my planned Saturday's "long bike" session for a 2 hour turbo session which was just as dull as I anticipated. I kept myself going by watching Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 - a sort of French equivalent to Scarface. The first part was much better, but this gritty gangster movie just about kept me spinning through the 50km ride.

Overall I still managed to get around 10 hours of training this week and feel like my body is definitely adapting to this larger volume of training on a regular basis. Hopefully this bug is just a short term thing as I am definitely not eating properly and that will certainly catch up with me in the next few days.

Swim

Three 3km swim session this week and a personal best of 6:05 for a 400m swim. I wouldn't normally push so hard for that distance by with the #winterswim challenge it has been interesting to see how my training has progressed my fitness.

Bike

Just over 100km all on the turbo trainer, winter seems to really be dragging and summer can not come soon enough !

Run

The aim this week was distance and volume, my shortest run was an hour over 12.6km. Running over 10km is certainly getting more comfortable, although I definitely feel like I am losing some of the pace I worked hard on last year. Overall banked 42km this week.

Next week's training is planned a little easier as the last 3 weeks I have been increasing volume slightly. looking forward to easing off a bit in the final stages of the base phase and then hitting the build phase hard.