Easy Week/Rest Week

Week five was a week spent with my daughter who is visiting from Australia.  It is important to have family time when it is presented and the body enjoys some rest and recovery time.

While only having four running days this week my elevation gains did suffer, only recording 1317m.  I did however manage to reach my total kilometer goal for the week of 90km in four straight days.

Week five went as follows:

DAY	TRAINING	DISTANCE	ELEVATION
Monday	Off
Tuesday	Off
Wednesday AM	Easy Run Ocean swim 10 min leg & core workout	10km 1011m	200m
Wednesday PM	Threshold Run	12.64km	244m
Thursday AM	Easy Run Ocean Swim 10 min leg & core workout	10km 341m	208m
Thursday PM	Threshold Run	15.55km	211m
Friday AM	Easy Run Ocean Swim 10 min leg & core workout	11.15km 921m	168m
Friday PM	Easy Run	3km	48m
Saturday AM	Threshold Run	30.3km	241m
Sunday	Off
TOTALS		Running  92.7km Swimming 2274m	1317m

So quite a short and sweet week with three good threshold runs and easy runs in between.  Only three swim mornings with one of those being a very easy splash around (convinced our daughter to take the plunge! She froze!).

Looking ahead to next week will see my first 100km week with elevation over 2000m.  I will look at introducing a speed session now that I have a strong base of work under my belt. I will also be ensuring I add in the core, buttock and leg work to ensure my back continues to cope well with the training.

Happy Running,

Andrew.