Training Review - Week 8 - w/e Feb 24th

So targets for last week (Week 8) were:

Swim >1.5 miles Bike >50 miles. Run >14 miles. One core/stretching session.

Actuals were:

Monday - Swim with TPT, 2,075m in 55 mins. Longest single swim session ever!

Tuesday - Run around Dyce. 3.15 miles, in 25 mins. And half a core session.

Wednesday - Gym brick. 45mins, 5.26 miles treadmill and 1 hour, 19.1 miles on the bike. Then 1,000m swim in 25mins.

Thursday - Rest day. Really, a proper one!

Friday - Run with Dexter and Jess. 4 miles from Stonehaven prom to Dunnotar Castle and back. Dex was being a total diva so this took 51mins.

Saturday - Ride with DTCC. 44.1 miles in 2hrs 53.

Sunday - Run around Dyce airport. 7 miles in 64mins.

Result - 

Swim 1.9 miles (3,075m). Bike 63.2 miles. Run 19.3 miles. One core/stretching session.

Tuesday felt like my first proper run since snapping my collar bone. Still 5 minutes off what I should be capable of for 5k, but within 3 minutes of the fastest I have done for a training run on that particular route, the fastest I have run it since April 2010, and under 8min/mile. So I am happy to be making some progress with running. 19 miles in the week is a pretty heavy total as well, but it felt fairly comfortable all week..

The long saturday ride with Deeside puts me over 237 bike miles for February, with potentially another 18 or so to come on Wednesday. My longest cycle months last year (and ever) were 190 in July and 200 in September. September would have been  about 212 if I hadn't crashed at Nairn. So my annualised plan of keeping the biking distance similar to last year is definitely not working, but in the best possible way. I am currently averaging over 48 bike miles a week against the 31 that I set as my target for the year. These should start to come back down from next week though as races become more and more common. Sunday races effectively take out two long sessions from a weekend.