Training Review - Weeks 35 & 36

With all of my late posts, I have completely lost track of the weeks. Google tells me that Weeks 35 & 36 were 24/08 - 06/09. So I am over a week late again. 

That window basically took me through a two-week run in to the Scottish Standard Triathlon Champs. Knowing how little I have ridden my TT bike in the last few years I purposefully took it outside for a ride, and then set it up on the turbo trainer for a week to try and get some feel for the position. I think this helped a bit, but not enough to make me competent at riding it in a race. 

I raced the last of the Krunce hill race series, and after some jiggery-pokery from the officials to account for me changing age-groups mid series, I was awarded second place in the 40-49 category, despite being 50 for half the series. 

As per my previous post, I didn't really want to race the Scottish Standard at Knockburn, but I had paid my entry fee so I went along to take part. My swim was poor, but given the cold water and my lack of outdoor swimming this year it wasn't much worse than I expected. The bike started fine but I run out of the muscles needed to hold the TT position somewhere round lap 2 of 3 and the speed dropped off acordingly. The run was pretty much a jog as my hips and back tightened up and reduced me to a shuffle that turned the 10k into almost an hour long .

I ended up 7th, a full 20 minutes adrift of the 5th place that I expected to be racing against and over half an hour off the medal places.  


Actuals, (Target) - 

Swim 5.7 miles. (5.1 miles).

Bike 100.8 miles. (98.0 miles). MTB 45.2 miles. (32.7 miles).

Run 37.7 miles. (32.4 miles). 

2 short core, 2 short light weights and 4 stretching / rollering session. 77 mins of yoga. 

Cumulative Actual, (Cumulative Target), [Cumulative Stretch] -

S 90.6, (88.9), [95,6],
B 1,426, (1,447), [1,556],  MTB 423.1, (520.9),
R 726.4, (772.1), [830.0]

Core         - 30, (17), [34], 
Weights    - 30, (17), [34],
Stretching - 16, (17), [34],
Yoga         - 46, [34]. 

Fast run sessions - 38, (36).

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