Kevins Training Diary 2022

After 3 International race in 4 days, all of them with a bug of some kind (non-Covid according to the daily visits to the Spanish Farmacia), I finally ran into a wall of sheer exhaustion and took a day off. After 1,004 consecutive training days I had a rest day, and then decided that since I had stopped my streak anyway, I might as well have a second one for my travel day.  The numbers are almost all going to be all over the place as I was tapering and then recce and racing. So here they are, but another week where the bigger picture means that I don't care about them. I will write up my week in Bilbao at some point, but I still haven't finished Targu Mures or Bratislava yet! Biggest things from this fortnight are that I can handle much more difficult mountain bike courses than I thought, and I have learned more again about how to ride my bike on tough technical courses and on steep but simple courses. And I can handle much worse swim conditions than I thought. Actuals, (...

Numbers again.  Not much of a story. Have been ridiculously busy, and therefore have missed some numbers, but only by small amounts, and have replaced them with masses of untracked exercise so am not worried about them. Three races in a fortnight (should have been 4 but Scottish Triathlon Champs at Knockburn got cancelled). Elgin Parkrun (5th) and Gordonstoun Triathlon (1st MV, 6th overall) last weekend and Proms 3k this week (10th in the race, 3rd MV, 2nd M45, 9th overall in series). Off to Bilbao this Friday for three European Championships next week.  Actuals, (Target) -  Swim 3.9  miles / 6,312 m. (4.2 miles). Bike 62.1 miles. (79.2 miles).   MTB 7.0 miles. (19.8 miles) Run 33.3 miles.  (35.0 miles). 0 short core,  0 short light weights   and  0  stretching / rollering session.  19   mins of yoga.   Cumulative Actual, (Cumulative Target), [Cumulative Stretch] - S 92.0, (88.2),   [97.0] , B 1,788.3, ...