Softly, softly

For once, a rather short post as I have little to report this week.

On Monday, I was up at 6am (a sleep-in for me) after a decent nights sleep for a 25min walk/shuffle. Despite the solid nights sleep, I woke feeling tired & my walk/shuffle only confirmed it. I ended up walking much more than I normally do. Swollen glands in my neck (which I discovered the day before) led to a doctor's visit later on Monday morning which confirmed that I was coming down with some sort of viral infection. Not surprisingly given how smashed I felt after the (short) walk from the train station to my desk at work.

So I took 2 days off work & did no training until I headed to the gym on Saturday afternoon for a strength session. I am really missing:

(a) the gym and

(b) my muscles

at the moment so it was nice to get back to my happy place after basically a week of inactivity. Thankfully it was a recovery week anyway so I haven't missed much in the way of heavy training.

Sunday morning saw me get out of bed almost immediately after my alarm went off in an effort to avoid talking myself out of going for my long ride. As I only had a 2 hour ride on the cards, I decided an easy 2 hour ride out to Richmond & back was the way to go. The first 30mins of this ride was, by far, the longest 30mins of the week; it seemed to drag on. But eventually I found my mojo & enjoyed a quiet ride while the clouds did their best to rain on me. There was a light drizzle of rain for much of the ride - which was a nice change from the heat of late - with the rain only getting a little heavier within about 20mins from home. Finished with 48.01km in total

Back into training this week (I hope). This week is going to be particularly exhausting. I have far too much on my plate at the moment & permanently feel like I'm either trying to catch up (which never happens) or just keep my head above water. I guess there is only one thing to do in the circumstances; as Nemo would say "just keep swimming, just keep swimming".

MTD:
Swim: 3.85km
Bike: 172.1km