Kevin's Training Diary of 2024

There are a lot red numbers this fortnight, but the second week has actually been probably my best training week of the year.  The S-curve on my swimming for the year has me cutting miles at this point with half an eye on working on more speed and maybe doing some outdoor swimming. With no major championship to race this year that plan is now obsolete, but I haven't got round to changing it so I am comfortably ahead of that.  I also did a couple of races, neither of them were good, but I did them. Failing to break 12 minutes for 3k the week after struggling to a 42:27 10k is about where I am at the minute. As frustrating as that is. I did manage to get out on the mountain bike more. Which again is mostly pointless now. It was too late for me to ride any better at Balmoral this coming weekend, and I don't have any other confirmed mtb races in my calendar. And then Monday morning I woke up with what seems to be the flu! Actuals, (T arget) -  Swim 5.6  miles / 9,000 m. ...

I am still at a loss with my season. With no A-race this season I still don't really have a plan for the year and I am just mindlessly going out to do basic fitness sessions.  I went to two 'races' this week and took part. But it would be a big stretch to claim that I raced either of them.  The first Krunce hill race of the year my average pace was 11:08 / mile. The conditions account for some of that, but some of it was just me running badly. Then I did Westhill Duathlon. I rode well enough, but both runs were terrible. I was outside 18 minutes for both 4km runs. Based on those runs I am staring down a ~45 minute finish at next weekends TECA 10k. At some point I need to sort out a season plan, at the very least a defence of my Scottish Aquathlon title, but also some sort of qualifying races for next years international series.  Actuals, (T arget) -  Swim 4.8  miles / 8,100 m. (5.6 miles). Bike 57.9 miles. (84.0 miles).   MTB 11.4 miles. (28.0 miles). Run 3...