Kevin's Training (And Adventures) Diary of 2023

 

Apparently it is now summer and since the schools are closed the pool opening hours have changed. This is wrecking my swim plans as I can't get a full session in before I have to get out to get to work on time. I really need to get outdoors for more swim sessions but the commuting to Strichen and lack of knowledge of safe swim spots up there is hampering that.  When I wrote my original plan for this year I was going to do 20% of the TdF miles, but once I knew it clashed with the Scottish Aquathlon Championships I cut that to 12%, but forgot to update my underlying plan. So I got nowhere near the massive bike miles I was meant to do this month, despite doing my three biggest bike weeks of the year so far. I am still ahead on the bike, just not as far ahead as I would like. And having done most of my TdF challenge on the road bike my mtb miles are now significantly behind.  And I have done too little running one week and too much the next and that on top of my TdF challenge have...

I went to my first TPT club training session for a long time. Mainly to collect my new cycling jacket, but partly to get in an extra swim and catch up on some of my lost swim miles from the last few weeks.  My Tour de France 12% challenge is going well. I have been on or over my miles for the first 8 days and have done big chunks of them outside on the road bike. I did puncture on Sunday and wasn't able to complete that ride, but I will pick up those miles on the TdF rest day tomorrow. I am going to have to make a decision at some point through the week about how I cover next weekend without wrecking my chances of defending my Scottish Aquathlon title at Loch Lomond.  I had a shortage of run miles last week and made some of that up with a big weekend this weekend. But I have done nothing fast for a few weeks now and am going in to the Scottish Aquathlon Champs with no speed in my legs, and with my hip really starting to bother me. Still no word on the appointment for my next s...