Kevin's Training (And Adventures) Diary of 2023

Merry Xmas. Since getting the flu I have done nothing on the bike.  I have finished my swimming for the year, and I have done a lot of running to try and catch up. I still need to do over 5 miles a day for this last week to hit my target, but I am comfortable that it is within range. Actuals, (T arget) -  Swim 10.4  miles / 16,750 m. (7.0 miles). Bike 23.0 miles. (84.0 miles).   MTB 0.0 miles. (28.0 miles). Run 43.2  miles. (46.2  miles). 0 short core,   0   short light weights   and  0  stretching / rollering session.  0  mins of yoga.   Cumulative Actual, (Cumulative Target), [Cumulative Stretch] - S 156.4, (153.4),   [161.0] , B 1,978.8, (2,091.8) ,   [2,196.4] ,     MTB 472.4, (697.2),   [732.1], R 1,091.4, (1,105.8),   [1,161.1 ]. Core         - 12, (40),   [52 ]   Weights    - 15 , (40),   [52] Stretching - 11, (40),   [52] Yoga ...

OK, new plan.  I got a cold or flu and from Wednesday lunchtime until Sunday lunchtime I did nothing. Wednesday morning I did a very slow swim, that was already clearly suffering from being ill. The sniffled my way through the day thinking it was just a sniffle and decided that I should skip my evening run and turbo to just spend the time trying to recuperate. And Thursday I slept almost 18 hours. While it has just been a minor sniffle since then, I wasn't able to get out and do any actual training until Sunday afternoon, when Slioch and I managed a very short, and very slow jog. So that leaves me on December 18th. Two weeks until year end, still looking for: 7 miles of swimming, from 5 possible swim sessions before the pools close for Xmas. 154 miles of biking, with limits on what I can get after the 23rd unless I start hauling a bike and/or turbo-trainer around the country with me. 71.6 miles of running. Which works out at just over 5 miles a day now.  If I was to apply some...

I have had a couple of decent weeks of swimming and running miles, but at the expense of the bike. I am going to have to be better organised over the next three weeks to fit everything in. Most critically I need to work around pool opening hours, so basically I am taking every opportunity this week to swim in the hope that I can get far enough ahead of my numbers that I can lose any of Xmas week that the pools are closed.  EDIT: Closed from 23rd so I really do have to cry in early. Also, I am going away for Xmas and New Years and neither are good for taking the bike, so I need to fit the bike in before those. The flip side of that is that I can run all of those, so I can backload my run miles in to those holidays. I still have a couple of Parkruns to do, one I will get on Xmas day, so any one of the other 3 opportunities will do.  Actuals, (T arget) -  Swim 8.3  miles / 13,350 m. (7.0 miles). Bike 66.2 miles. (84.0 miles).   MTB 0.0 miles. (28.0 miles). Run 52.3...