Time to Get Back to It

With my daughter Ella flying back to Australia this past week there were plenty of sad goodbyes. Having family and friends visiting is always a wonderful time but does tend to impact the training schedule.

Time to get back to some more structured weeks. Although my friend Jim is arriving at the end of the week this won’t be an issue as Jim is my running partner from Australia. Getting the work done should not be a problem at all and will in fact be a lot of fun catching up with him at the same time.

I did get some good threshold runs in but I didn’t get a speed session done. I will endeavour to start implementing a speed session from here on in.

Although the schedule was impacted from outside influences I was still able to achieve my biggest total kilometers and elevation for the year so far. Everything is still progressing forward at a good rate.

My week went as follows:

DAY	TRAINING	DISTANCE	ELEVATION
Monday AM	Off
Monday PM	Run – 9km Threshold, 9km easy Ocean Swim	18.1km 264m	129m
Tuesday AM	Walk	2km	267m
Tuesday PM	Easy Run	24.5km	629m
Wednesday AM	Walk	3.7km	61m
Wednesday PM	Easy Run	9.6km	141m
Thursday AM	Off
Thursday PM	Ocean Swim	1112m
Friday AM	Off
Friday PM	Threshold Run Ocean Swim Easy Run	12.4km 1734m 5.6km	265m 144m
Saturday AM	Easy Run Trail Run Easy Run	3.1km 10.2km 3.2km	62m 446m 37m
Saturday PM	Off
Sunday AM	Off
Sunday PM	Threshold Run	8.2km	193m
TOTALS		Running 100.7km Swimming 3120m	2368m

Looking Forward

Another area I will focus on in the coming weeks is my leg strength exercises as this has been lacking especially this past week. I have actually noticed a mild decline in how well my back was holding up so I really need to keep leg and buttock exercises up as a priority. I will endeavour to get back on track with this along with increasing my elevation and incorporating that speed session.

Happy Running,

Andrew.