Kevin's Training (And Adventures) Diary of 2023

The weather has been absolutely scorching and I have been struggling to fight temperatures in the mid to high 20s in the evenings.  I rode all the way out to Strichen after work on Friday, and back home again on the Sunday evening. 32 miles each way were my two longest mountain bike rides ever. I got sunburnt on the way  out and had to fight a headwind on the way back. Then I spent the second week trying to recover from that.  I did a 3k race at Peterhead. It went really well for the first km, then I completely ran out of gas and dropped to a slower pace than my recent Parkruns. Finished in 11:23. Not terrible, but almost a minute off where I should be.  I missed some swimming as I hoped to do a big outdoor swim for the Summer Solstice event at the beach, but it was too cold for me.  Actuals, (T arget) -  Swim 4.1  miles /  6,600m. (4.8 miles). Bike 95.4 miles. (84.0 miles).   MTB 71.5 miles. (28.0 miles). Run 47.8  miles.  (37.8 mi...

Not having a car really started to bite as I had to give my sister her car back and consequently I missed 3 swims in week 22. I did manage to fit in my first UK open water swim for the year with a swim down the Dee at the weekend. And I swapped all my commutes for run or bike, so I actually put up some decent numbers for the week and ended up with more free time in the evenings. As long as the weather holds I will maybe try and commute ride Monday and Friday through summer... And then week 23 I got my car back and immediately drove everywhere. I did manage to catch up on some swimming and did put up decent run and bike numbers still, but still need to get out on my mountain bike more. Actuals, (T arget) -  Swim 4.3  miles /  6,882m. (4.8 miles). Bike 84.2 miles. (77.0 miles).   MTB 8.0 miles. (25.7 miles). Run 44.7  miles.  (46.2 miles). 0 short core,  0   short light weights   and  0  stretching / rollering session.   36...