Flu update

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 common sense to this, I would decide now to let one of those go and use all that saved time to focus on the other two. 

Favourite to go is the bike. It is the most hours, and the least fun, and it does make everything else awkward if I put the bike and turbo in the car for holiday trips. part of me is looking at that number and thinking it is just 3 or 4 decent distance road rides. But I haven't done anything close to that this year. Apart from my two rides to Strichen and back, the longest ride I have done all year is 18.7 miles on the turbo. 

At the same time, running is a very close second. 5 miles every day is a lot. The only time this year that I have gone more than 35 miles in a week was the week I did my solo marathon. So to suddenly throw in two of those after a week of illness is probably too big an ask, even allowing for the holiday effect that allows me to ramp up every year for Xmas week.

So then we get to swimming and even that is a big ask. 5 swims in a week, 2,250m per swim, with three of those crammed in to pre-work slots is probably going to leave me in Fraserburgh pool next Saturday looking for my longest swim of the year and hoping there is no traffic in that lane. This one is almost out of my hands as well. Any one of those 5 swims could be ruined by other people turning up and slowing me so much that I can't get enough miles in. And beyond the 23rd every pool is closed until January, so my options all disappear. (I am not going outside at this time of year, even to finish an annual challenge).