I’ve been doing great with my swimming and have seen constant improvement day after day.
This morning, for instance, was a 100m PB in the water at 1m19s a couple of times. Gotta be happy with that considering I never ever swam that fast and it was in the middle of a hard interval set so I know I can definitely go faster than that if fresh.
I have joined a few other guys on Transitions and am challenging myself on a 1km TT. I will record the benchmark time this week and set myself a goal to be achieved by the 3rd of October. I will make sure I add another tab to the fitness tracker above so I can measure progress every 3-4 weeks as well.
Running wise it is not so good. I have a niggling pain on my right knee since IM Brasil and it doesn’t want to go away even after quite a bit of rest. I must admit I haven’t been looking after it as I should but will start icing it at night and see if it gets any better otherwise I will have to see a physio about it. That leg has been the source of a couple of different problems for me now including the achilles pain which seems to be controlled now but you never know! All my runs have been really slow (i.e. 6min/km) as I am trying not to makes things worse.
I just remembered I haven’t posted in a while and never mentioned that I ended up running the GC marathon with my girlfriend on the 6th of July. She did quite well considering her longest run in 6 months prior was 6km! We ran up until the 21-22km mark but then started to walk/run all the way to the end finishing in just over 5 hours. She was ecstatic!!!!
I went for my first longer than 1hr ride since IM Brasil on the weekend. Did 3,5hrs of very slow riding but felt better than I thought even on the climbs considering the ‘couple’ of extra kilos.
For the last few weeks I have been doing 8-10hrs of exercise/week which is good to keep me going for a while. I will ramp it up once I start riding a bit more but will keep running to a minimum at this stage.
All good as I am loving the hurt in the pool like never before and it is good to feel fast for a change! I expect to come to the other end of this swim block with a different perception of my swimming abilities.
By the way I have been trying the Elagen stuff and even though it is too early to report I can say it seems to be making a positive difference in my recovery specially after the harder swim sets.