Kevin's Training Diary of 2024

  I have had another solid fortnight, catching up with everything apart from the mountain bike, and even that I have done more than the previous month.  I also managed to get outside on the road bike, which isn't hugely useful from a season perspective, but does mean I won't just be hopping on it for the first time to race it in three weeks time.  On the subject of races, Glasgow Aquathlon is up next weekend and is my first chance to race properly this year. I am not expecting much. I am swimming a lot, but that is not translating to swimming fast, and I seem to have a right achilles issue on top of my bad hip which has caused some visible muscle loss in my right calf. I have had a week to work on that given that it was visible loss in the first place, it is going to take a while to rebuild.  Actuals, (T arget) -  Swim 6.9  miles / 11,050 m. (5.6 miles). Bike 97.2 miles. (84.0 miles).   MTB 21.0 miles. (28.0 miles). Run 48.4  miles. (46.2  mi...

Despite missing a couple of sessions to fit in other life activities, and a cold affecting week 6, I have managed to put in a very solid set of numbers for this fortnight.  I am very slightly short of run numbers as I took two consecutive days off running before racing the Scottish Masters Cross Country Championships. I don't think I ever ran one of these as a Senior. I did loads as a Junior and even through U-20 and then when I shifted to track I stopped, and since I have been a Master the dates and venues just haven't worked for me. I finished 16th, and I was happy enough with the time. It was within a minute of my PB for that course.  I managed to get the mountain bike out a couple of times and have been consistent about swimming and spin sessions, which is about all I need to be doing at this point in the year, and in this weather. I have entered some other races to start my season as well. Not a lot of them but enough to get me started. I have crossed off the first thing ...