Week 33 Training log / Not too much training going on round here at the moment.

Week 33. God where do I begin. I'm cheesed off.
Did some riding, did some weights had a swim. Knee hurt. ouch 4 days rest. #+#~ it. AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!

Week 32 Training Log

Half term fell nicely on a three day training week. I was working Monday so I had to shunt things on a day, makes no difference.
Another two and hopefully my last treadmill sessions this week, each off the back of a gym bike ride.
A nice swim on Tuesday. After a twenty minute warm up I set about doing kicking drills with pull sets between. The aim is to improve balance and posture in the water. For this stage in my training I have no complaints about my swimming. The same can't be said for my running and riding, both are flagging. I have a marathon in the middle of April and at the moment my longest run is half an hour on a treadmill. I have to try it on the road very soon but I'm still not completely happy with my knee. On a treadmill, after a good warm up on the bike the knee is fine for half an hour, I don't even feel it.

I've always been a keen cyclist and consider myself to be of a fairly good standard on a bike. But it turns out that the bike is probably my biggest limiter. I stand to make the most time gains on race day by improving the bike leg. Based on Thursdays endurance ride I'm going to be lucky to complete 112 miles in less than eight hours, that's nowhere near good enough. I need to shave about one and a half hours off of that. I've got a lot more work to do on the bike than I have in any of the other legs. No amount of training in my lifetime is going to shave that time off a marathon.
I have one week left in the base period so I may dedicate alot of that week to bike training, both on and off the bike in the form of strength training. I'll also throw in some brick training to get the knee re-introduced to the tarmac.

Week 31 Training Log

Spent lots of time in the gym this week, riding fixed bikes and running on fixed roads, (Treadmills, yawn). Every ride and run session was a brick so I'm really getting used to running off the bike. With combinations of skills and speed, muscular endurance and strength, I've had a good variety before stepping onto the treadmill.
Runs have just been thirty minutes up to now, still at a steady ten to ten point five KPH, although at the end of the week I was using some incline while maintaining the pace.
I was unable to attend any classes this week but still managed a couple of visits to the pool. It's a funny thing swimming, I find that if I'm in a lane of my own I swim beautifuly, very efficiant and with some ease. The same can be said when I'm in a lane with people who perhaps arn't as comfortable in the water as I have become. Although the same cannot be said when I'm sharing a lane with those who are far superior to me. My technique goes right out of the window. I don't know if it's just nerves or I'm trying to hard to keep up and not look slow. Either way it doesn't do my skills training any good.

I started planning my build period sheduals this week, this is when things get a little more serious with regards to session groupings and fatigue levels. There won't be much increase in total hours to start with but the sessions will be closer together, if not back to back. This is also the period when I start stretching out the endurance training, so eventualy the total hours will increase. For now though, I still have about two weeks left in base period, (injury pending). I'll keep you posted on when the change happens. Over and out

Week 30 Training Log

A fairly consistent week this week. I was able to complete everything that I set out to do. Lot's of time on the turbo trainer due to the frosty weather but that's fine.
Pilates was cancelled this week so I made use of a gym session instead and did some upper body strength work.
After a thirty min workout on the gym bike I ventured onto the teadmill to attempt a thirty min run. My train of thought was, it was better to have a softer surface to run on, what with the on going knee saga. I paced myself at a steady and fairly relaxed ten kph and found it quite comfortable. I didn't even feel the knee.
I know however that the issue hasn't gone away because whenever I do something that moves the knee slightly out of line, I feel the twinge. A little longer on the treadmill I think, Blaaaaghh!!! needs must.

Enjoyed my three swims this week, it's good to be back in the pool. The best thing is entering the warm changing rooms after being out side in the -5 air temp. Even the water feels warm 27 degrees, practicly tropical.