Kevins Training Diary 2022

I completely forgot about this until the last minute. And I know I still haven't published either of  my Targu Mures race posts.  I ran another 3K PB a the beach series last week (10:32). And then the officials added 4 seconds to the time in the results, and it was still a PB (10:36). I took my good mtb out for the first time since Targu Mures, and found that somewhere in transit the dropper post lever had been snapped and the rear derailleur has been bent again! I did a duathlon race on Thursday. Just took my road bike but would probably have been slightly quicker on my TT bike. Ran 5k well, rode 17k ok, ran 2.5k well.  I did the Parkrun at Crathes this week. That course is tough. I am going to blame it for nearly 2 minutes of my 20:23. I am still keeping up with my Tour de France challenge of riding a mile for every 10km they ride, but I am more than ready for tomorrow's rest day. I am increasingly thinking that going straight into doing the same for the ...

Half way through the year.  Having lost a week to a cold / virus I was able to get straight back into two full weeks of training. I managed everything in this fortnight as well as doubling up on basketball this week.  On Friday I started this years Tour de France follow-along plan where I plan to do 1 mile for every 10km that they ride. That made for a very easy day as they did a short time trial. It also made for the closest thing I have had to a rest day in nearly 3 years as I wanted to try and race with the pacemaker at the 500th Aberdeen Beach Parkrun on the Saturday. I took a very easy ride down to the Beach, did my normal warm-up and put on my bouncy new shoes. I tried to go with the 18 minute pacemaker but he went too fast the first 800m and I let him go and ran to the watch instead. That put me in a nice little group of about 7 runners all the way through 3k, by which point the pacemaker was on pace but still 20 yards ahead. Then my little group just blew apart. Half o...

I would normally do a Quarterly Review at this point but instead I am just going to do a very basic review of my targets. Then I am going to change all my targets again.  Done already On or ahead of target Just waiting for the event to happen Needs some work Targets by numbers Represent GBR age-group at an international event.  Qualify for the GBR Age-group team for a 2023 European Championships. Finish top-20 at European Aquathlon Champs. Finish top-30 at World Aquathlon Champs. Take part in a GBR age-group qualifying race for a 2023 European Champs. Take part in a GBR age-group qualifying race for a 2023 World Champs. Swim 130 miles.  - 70.3 miles Swim under 6:15 minutes for 400m.  - 6:25 in training Swim under 11:45 minutes for 750m.  - 11:56 time trial in training, 11:56 in a race Swim under 25:30 minutes for 1,500m.  - 26:27 in training Ride 2,000 miles.  - 1,195.9 miles MTB 500 miles  - 389.0 miles Run 1,000 miles.  - 554.1 miles Run a ...