Fortnightly Review - Weeks 13 and 14

I have had a couple of attempts but haven't managed to beat my 5k from Inverurie, so 19 minutes is still out there waiting for me, and I missed a chance for both a PB and a sub-11 minute run at a 3k race at the beach this week. I can blame the weather a little bit for both of this weeks as it wasn't great, but I think the larger factor has been me just not getting the races right.

Big picture, being disappointed with a 19:20 5k, an 11:03 3k and a 19:19 5k with a big headwind, all within 8 days, on tired legs, in the middle of a heavy training block, is a different world from where I was even at the turn of the year. I have done all my running speed targets for the year already, and even felt the need to write new ones, and have plenty more races coming to take big chunks off those times.

I almost did enough mountain bike miles (63.1) to get my whole fortnight of bike miles. 

I have finally booked everything for going to Romania (apart from the bus from Heathrow to Luton). I have absolutely no confidence in the airlines I have been forced to use to be able to get me and my bike to Romania together and, despite phoning all of their (stupidly expensive) helplines, I can't convince myself that I have booked my bike on to their flights correctly. Even if I have, the second flight is likely to have a couple of dozen other duathletes / triathletes and their bikes on it, so it would be no surprise if one or more of our bikes gets left behind. 

I have also entered the cross duathlon at Balmoral next weekend as I decided turning up to my first ever cross duathlon at a World Championship was going to be a bad idea.


Actuals, (Target) - 

Swim 6.5 miles / 10,450 m. (5.6 miles).
Bike 118.6 miles. (69.2 miles). MTB 63.1 miles. (17.3 miles)
Run 48.4 miles. (40.6 miles).

2 short core, 2 short light weights and 2 stretching / rollering session. 46 mins of yoga. 

Cumulative Actual, (Cumulative Target), [Cumulative Stretch] -

S 43.1, (39.2), [43.1],
B 680.6, (511.2), [562.3],  MTB 196.6, (127.8), [140.6],
R 317.2, (290.0), [319.2].

Core         - 17, (10), [14]  
Weights    - 17, (10), [14]
Stretching - 16, (12), [16]
Yoga         - 25, (14), [30]. 

Fast run sessions - 16, (>14).

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