A good week of training this week! It's probably the first good 'all round' training week I've had for about 2 months.
I've had a week off work and with the weather being pretty good, I've managed to get plenty of bike miles in and ramped up the running a wee bit too.
Overall, I've clocked just over 10 hours on 2 wheels so far this week and will probably get in a run/bike brick tomorrow morning and hopefully a 3 hour ride on Sunday...that is a pretty 'bike heavy' week! My legs are feeling heavy, but I expected them to be! Next week it will be nice and easy on the bike!
I've restricted my running to laps of the footy pitches on camp. Over the week I've done 3 sessions of 1 hour fartleks on the flat, soft grass. Running on grass helps prevent my calfs from exploding in these Omni 9 shoes! (Saucony have changed the Omni so much from the 8's to the 9's and the 'upgrade' hasn't suited me at all...if it ain't broke...) I've tried wearing them in but to no avail, so until my new shoes arrive I'll continue with the grass running.
I'm still swimming with paddles quite a bit and I reckon it's improving my technique as well as boosting strength, as I found out today! I wasn't planning to do a time trial, but I had to cut my session short and could only squeeze a 40 min workout in. After a few lengths of drills, I intended to do a muscular endurance swim, alternating 10 mins with paddles on, and 10 mins without, until time ran out. But after 30 mins, I decided to do a 400m 'time trial' just to see how I would get on. I pushed it fairly hard but it was fair to say I didn't go 'eyeballs out', so I was pleasantly surprised to clock a time of 6 min 21, especially as it was at the end of a session. Putting my faith in paddles seems to have worked...why didn't I use these before?!!
As my running is progressing ok (i.e. calfs are still in one piece!...touch wood!) I have entered the Clumber. It's not that far away, so my running won't be up to speed, but it will be a good early test of my bike legs if nothing else!
Train well.
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