Week 43 Training log / my birthday

A fairly normal week in the life an Ironman wannabe this week. Started the ball rolling with a swim, concentrating on technique and a good strong catch/pull. An hour in the gym after working on swim specific upper body exercises and all over leg exercises. Back in the pool on Tuesday for a fairly gentle skills session, again focusing on technique. this was followed by an hour strength training run over some rolling terain. High knees, butt kicks and even skipping. It was pouring with rain as well, just to had to the session. A 3.15 endurance ride on Wednesday followed by a 30 minute strength run session. This involved running in the sea and up the steep hill onto the coast path and back across the beach. A good walk for Paddy as well. Thursday I was back in pool for another strength and skills set, by now my swimming was feeling really good. It does pay to keep your swim training consistant. Another full body workout in the gym followed with extra attention to the core and legs. Friday, A short active recovry bike ride, just to ease back before the storm of Saturday. Saturday May 5th, my birthday. What better way to spend your 41st birthday than to hit the road for a 2 hour ride, dump the bike in the garage, change into running shoes and press on down the road on a 1.30 run. This to date is the hardest single session I have ever, ever done. Still bags of room for improvment in terms of distance. Happy birthday to me. Sunday. It's been a while but it was back in the sea. 25 minutes, and after the initial transition period it felt pretty good. I used a couple of markers in the sea and swam between then. A word of caution about this, One of my markers was a boat that was anchored and the other was a rock outcrop. I swam towards the rock then made a left turn toward the boat. I reached the boat then turned back for the rock. Trouble with this method was the rock. You see as I was swimming the tide was comming in and when I turned from the boat to head back for the rock, you guest it, the rock was gone. I spotted a bouy in the same area as the rock an swam for that.