Training Review - Week 37 & 38

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, (Target) - 

Swim 4.3 miles / 6,897 m. (4.2 miles).
Bike 101.1 miles. (79.2 miles). MTB 73.2 miles. (19.8 miles)
Run 27.6 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 96.3, (92.4), [101.6],
B 1,889.4, (1,451.6), [1,596.7],  MTB 597.5, (362.9), [399.2],
R 795.1, (730.4), [803.4].

Core         - 28, (18), [26]  
Weights    - 28, (18), [26]
Stretching - 36, (20), [30]
Yoga         - 44, (30), [48]. 

Fast run sessions - 49, (>38).

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