Kevins Training Diary 2022

It has been another busy, but solid fortnight. I have been managing to get out regularly at lunchtimes which was allowing me to do 3 sessions a day quite often, which then freed up evenings to do yoga and core / weights sessions.     Swimming on Wednesday was a 750m time trial. I went through 400m in 6:20 and 750m in 11:56, so only 5 and 11 seconds off my targets for the year, and it isn't even the end of January. And that was not in a real race, no rest day or prep, without depiling my legs, or face, or wearing a wetsuit, or even wearing my fast tri-suit. I am suitably pleased.  I followed that up at the weekend with another sub-20 Parkrun in frankly horrific wind conditions.  This coming week I have 2 days on a course and then 2 days in the office so I have had to modify my training times to suit. That mostly means losing lunchtime sessions, and that in turn means getting out of bed earlier and doing sessions before going to work.  Actuals, (Target) -...

I have rolled the extra 2 days from the New Year weekend into this post, just because it was easy. Having a 4-day start to the year before returning to my main job allowed me to get a bit of a binge start to the year. I figured that having run every day in December I wasn't going to do a long run to start the year, so I decided to go and do the Parkrun, and follow that up with a bit of mountain biking instead. The run was okay, 20:14 in windy conditions, but then I wasted nearly an hour driving to 4 different mountain biking locations to find them all closed. I ended up just going home and riding out the railway line. After griping about not doing proper mountain biking, I start the year by not doing proper mountain biking. And yet the bike came home in this state so at least bits of it were muddy even if they were mostly track and road.  And then on the last day before I returned to work the snow arrived. Having run out the railway line in the morning, I took the mountain bik...