Kevin's Training (And Adventures) Diary of 2023

It has been a strange fortnight on the training front.  Having had my commuter mountain bike stolen I am not willing to expose my more expensive bikes to the same fate. I have swapped my road commuter off of the turbo but it needs a service before going outside, and my remaining 26" mob is set up for the girlfriend so not easily available as an alternative. The weather (snowy days and lots of rain) and my schedule hasn't allowed me to put in a dedicated mountain bike session anywhere. So all of my bike miles have been on the turbo, on my nice road bike. But on the flip side of that, I managed to rack up plenty of them. I need to get out on the good mountain bike in the next fortnight. Swimming is all over the place. I still can't figure out why I am stuck at 1:40 pace for anything longer than 100m. I have tried a few style changes and put some faster swim efforts in but something isn't quite working in terms of going faster. But on the flip side of that I can churn out...

Not the best fortnight on the training or personal fronts, as I had my granny's funeral this week, and one of my training bikes stolen last week, but I did get to my first triathlon (ok, aquathlon) race of the year.  I coasted round Elgin Parkrun in sub-20, but literally coasting and having a chat as if it was a tempo training run.  I had an absolutely shocking swim at Glasgow Aquathlon. Barely scraping under 13 minutes. I have swum faster whilst doing an easy 2,000m swim this year. I did then follow that with a 19:12 run so dragged myself up from 63rd to 24th. But I need to figure out what went wrong with that and fix it before Ibiza.  ETU have finally gotten round to announcing where the Euro Cross Triathlon and Cross Duathlon Championships will be held this year. They are going to be in Riva Del Garda in Italy, just north of Verona. They are annoyingly close to the Euro Aquathlon in Menen, Belgium and I will have to do a week there, a week at work and th...