Review of the week

A nicer week of weather helped the training along nicely last week once Monday had passed by.
We went for our first long run in ages - a 2 hour hilly route around Carmunock & Kittochside in the rain & wind with puddles over our ankles. Not fun & quite painful but we knew it wouldn't get any worse than that.
We got a few runs in - running off the bike after every ride plus a couple of other runs, but no efforts as yet.
We got in some pretty good bike mileage & both feel pretty good. I feel much stronger on the bike now than I did whilst in Lanzarote & the 50 - 60 milers that we are currently doing aren't presenting any problems.
Swimming is still going well - we only had the 2 sessions due to the Tollcross & Hamilton College opening times over Easter but what we are doing is looking ok. A great 58 min 3k continuous swim on Weds.
Wednesday was a crazy day - 3k swim, 55 mile bike, bike hill efforts in the evening & a brick run.

Must do more core & stretching!

Ayr Duathlon this weekend - feel a bit odd about this. I haven't done any Sprint event since before Ironman last October. I know I am strong enough not to tire but a serious lack of any running speedwork may hamper my turnover whilst running. We'll have to wait & see what happens.
We are targetting 16 hrs training this week then have a recovery week next week (though this does include a 100 miler on the Sunday!).

Colin