Kevin's Training (And Adventures) Diary of 2023

Well, that did not go as planned.  I finished last fortnight noting that my car was going for its MOT and that would mean I had to ride a couple of commutes. I figured Monday both ways and maybe ride in on Tuesday and walk back to get the car. It turned out to be the whole week, and because I was going to lose so many other sessions I also had to ride everywhere else in order to fit in swims and basketball.  That seems like it would benefit my ride numbers, but it actually just made everything more difficult. The extra time and effort of sorting out clothes and getting changed and showered for just 15 minute cycles makes them massively inefficient. But there were so many of them I had to fit in that I couldn't just go by a longer route and turn them into worthwhile rides. I managed to do 2 Parkruns, I won one of them despite running outside 20 minutes and the other was so slow it doesn't even count as a fast run and barely counts as a training run. My hip is deteriorating...

The way I edited my tracker spreadsheet for this  year has made Sunday the 1st of Jan into a whole week and the next fortnight starting on the 9th. And rather than rebuild it I am just going to roll with reporting on odd-numbered weeks this year.    I started my year by doing a Parkrun at Dundee (3rd place, 5km in 20:36, tough course), then h elping officiate that same Parkrun, then doing a race in Blairgowrie in the afternoon (8th place, 3.8 miles in 24:08). I then ran every day but one, including 11 miles for my January long run for my "run 5k further every month". Each of the other runs were pretty short though so I only just clocked up a marathon for the week.  My 2023 targets work out to be an extra 800m of swimming and an extra 1.6 miles of running each week. The extra run miles should happen anyway with my plan to run a marathon distance in summer. Even without that, it is a few hundred meters on each run so it should be easy enough to complete. The swim is mo...