The Week That Was (Week Four)

This week has been an interesting week as it is the first full week where the rest day was on the scheduled day (Saturday) as there were no interruptions with events or being out of town. That has meant 6 days straight of training for the first time and its also the first time I have done 4 swim sessions. To be honest, I have coped better with this week than I did with last week, where the rest day was on Monday after an a triathlon 13 k run and long ride over the Easter break.

I have increased the amount of training by around 15% to 11.6 hours over the previous 2 weeks. The increase was due to an almost doubling of my swimming from 80 minutes to 150 minutes and cycling of 5 hours 28 minutes (150 k) which was up by 23 minutes. My runs have remained relatively steady at 3:39 and 36.2 k, however my long run today was 5 minutes faster than last week over the same route.

Milestones for the week included:

• the 100k ride and 150 k riding for the week
• improving my swim stroke ever so slightly with the aid of a rubber ducky (I'll explain in a later blog)
• getting 4 swim sessions under my belt for the week
• most training in a week ever, including training for the Southland Marathon last year.