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Training Week Nine

Week nine has been my best… four runs, three swims, one bike ride and one gym PT session. I felt great this week even after three 5am wake up calls! My main issue this week was my swimming cap. It was rather frustrating when I was trying to do an hour’s continuous swim when every 15-20 lengths you have to adjust your cap! I have bought new swimming caps for long hair so I hope this solves my problem.

Running this week, I managed one long run of twelve miles, a club hill reps session and two four to five mile runs. My legs were a little sore before my long run (after my hills session) so couldn’t really push the pace. I hope that now I’m running more regularly this will ease and I can push more in my longer runs.

Swimming is going well, I’m noticing my times are getting quicker, I can swim longer distances with a stronger pace and I’m starting to keep up with some of the stronger swimmers during triathlon club training sessions. I’m going to do more continuous swim sessions like I would be doing during the race (Once my swimming cap fiasco is no more).

Cycling is getting better… I am managing to complete one long ride per week. I am slowly getting more confident handling my bike and cycling in different weather conditions. This week I went out with my friend Jill, it was a slow ride as it was wet but I’m getting out on the bike, training and cycling. Again, I need to use my turbo trainer more (the story of my life).

I managed to complete my goal this week, increasing my distance on all disciplines. I am going to continue with this next week and also start brick training. Brick training refers to the stacking of two disciplines during the same workout, one after the other with minimal to no interruption in between. It is really essential to practice this prior the race. I plan to practice cycle into run workouts this next week. Changing disciplines from cycling to running you get a strange feeling of heavy legs. It’s really important I practice this so my body gets used to the change in demand, for race day.

Jenwaar

Training week Seven

So this week’s post will be short and sweet. Last week I was sick, I had the flu and a chesty cough so spent the first five days of the week in bed. I felt much better by Saturday and went for walk with my husband. On Sunday I ran Edinburgh Kilomathon 13.1 kilometres (eight miles). It was a beautiful early morning run along Edinburgh’s cycle paths starting from Ocean terminal and finishing at Murrayfield stadium. I really enjoyed the run, I still wasn’t 100% so treated the race more as a training run than a race. My time as expected was slow but I’m happy I completed it. I was also meant to do the swimathon in the afternoon but my cough was much worst after the run and I didn’t want to push myself too much.

This week’s goals are to regularly train and keep well!

Jenwaar

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Training Week Nine

Training Week Seven