Kevin's Training Diary of 2024

We were on holiday for the first week of this window. And I managed to mix that in with spending a week recceing the National Cross Triathlon Championships in Aviemore.  I rode the bike course twice through the week. Although, when I say rode, the first time was more pushing than riding. Then I coasted round the Aviemore 5k to tick another Parkrun venue off the list, on the day before the race, to stretch my legs off.  Then on race day they made us get in the water 5 minutes before the start. And by the time the start hooter went I was too cold to swim. I managed to breast stroke round three-quarters of the first lap before the leaders started lapping me and I decided to get out.  Then the second week has been chaos of getting back to work , whilst sorting out students for Freshers week and trying to get through two courses (one work, one coaching). I just don't have the time to juggle everything, so sleep took priority over swimming and I basically did one short swim the...

OK, I was just too busy to write this one at the time so here are the numbers and a very quick recap. Down on all the numbers, partly as the targets ramp up at this point in my season as I should be finished racing by now, but also as I had to fit four races, a load of travel and some coursework in that just sucked up all my free time.  Loch Ore Cross Triathlon I had a decent race. I didn't like the cold water but I swam okay, better  than I expected in my current form. I biked fairly well too. Nothing superb on what is a fairly benign mob course, but I was happy enough with it. I then managed to catch back some time on what was a half-and-half road and cross country run, enough to get 3rd Vet, and a potential qualifying time for 2025 Cross International races. We had a cool van adventure as well so a good trip all round. Krunce Hill Race #6. I finally had the run that has been lurking all year. But the conditions weren't great so it came out 2 seconds slower than my fastest t...