Kevin's Training Diary of 2024

A strange fortnight. I managed to collect a lot of bike and run miles the first week, and did 3 swim sessions, even if they were each slightly shorter than I wanted. Add to that two fast runs at the Fetternear Sunlit Shadow series and Stonehaven Parkrun and it was a solid week to start my off-season.  Then the second week life decided to intervene. I got a mild cold, that I could probably have worked around, but we then had to come to Blairgowrie for the week as Lornas mother's condition deteriorated rapidly and unfortunately she passed away at the weekend. Actuals, (T arget) -  Swim 2.1  miles / 3,450  m. (6.6 miles). Bike 44.3 miles. (84.0 miles).   MTB 0.0 miles. (21.0 miles). Run 27.7  miles. (42.0  miles). 0 short core,  0   short light weights   and  0  stretching / rollering session.  0   mins of yoga.   Cumulative Actual, (Cumulative Target), [Cumulative Stretch] - S 97.3 , (114.2 ),   [119.9] , B 1,...

My race season officially finished yesterday with Dundee Uni Aquathlon. I had a pretty poor swim, and then a better run than I deserved. I did something to hurt my back in the pool. Probably an effect of my hip, and being a year out from my last set of injections.  So now my plan is winter training, and maybe some running races. I missed a whole bunch of swimming over the last few weeks and spending my Wednesday evenings coaching instead of swimming is going to basically make my end of year swim target impossible to get to. I am about 80 miles behind on running as well, and while that is possible to recoup with 3 months left, I can't see my hip tolerating that sort of load.  Actuals, (T arget) -  Swim 2.3  miles / 3,650  m. (6.6 miles). Bike 60.5 miles. (84.0 miles).   MTB 0.0 miles. (21.0 miles). Run 41.9  miles. (39.0  miles). 0 short core,  0   short light weights   and  0  stretching / rollering session.   12 ...