Busy bee...

To say the last 2 weeks have been crazy is probably an understatement. I normally update my blog on Sunday nights & then look at my training program and plan out the rest of the week so I can get my training sessions done (at least most of them) around my normal commitments. Not only did I not update my blog on Sunday last week (obviously), I confess that I didn't even OPEN my training program for the week until, um, Wednesday night. My hip has also been playing up. Again. C'est la vie.

Mon 7th: no run in the morning as I was training a client :-)

In the evening, I tried to come up with every possible reason not to go to swim squad. But even leaving work at 6.30pm & visiting 2 potential venues of a group PT session I am planning to launch soon still left me with plenty of time to get to squad. Bugger. So I went. And I did it. And I was reasonably happy with how I swam, particularly given that I have only swim twice in the last month. Approx. 2.1km

Wed 9th: 60mins of core-torturing pilates in the morning followed by my 20min walk/shuffle in the evening. Probably not the best of idea; my glutes were probably a bit fatigued. My hip confirmed the next morning that it wasn't :-(

Thu 10th: 1.5km open water swim at the Regatta Centre watching the sky change from pink to blue. Great way to start the day!

Sat 12th: dragged myself out of bed about 7.30am for a ride. I was feeling decidedly unenergetic this morning but eventually got moving. An overcast morning with clouds that hinted of rain actually lifted my spirits; I wasn't looking forward to another hot ride.

As it was, the clouds didn't just hint of rain. About 30sec after getting on bike, it started to rain. Ick. Thankfully it didn't last for too long. 71min ride -including 3 x 6mins efforts with 4min easy recovery. The first two efforts didn't feel too hard. I worked out why when I turned around and headed for home. A headwind made the last effort much more painful & even the 'easy' cool down ride home was a struggle. 27.7km.

Thu 17th: dragged myself out of bed at 5.15am for a windtrainer session in the garage. 45mins in total including 3 x 6mins efforts (the last 40sec of which were standing) with 4min easy recovery. This session felt particularly tough. I almost talked myself out of doing the 3rd rep but persevered. 16.4km

Fri 18th: another Club race, another enticer (250m swim / 10km bike / 2.5km run)

I wasn't in a good head space mentally during this race nor did it really improve afterwards. I won't go into the details. Suffice to say while I know I have been training for other purposes for the last 6 months, I am feeling very frustrated with my training at the moment. And my hip isn't too happy either. No results out yet as at the time of writing

Edit: results are out. Slow swim, slow bike but my run was 38sec faster than my split at the Nepean enticer in November (mind you over a different course). 1st in my AG out of 2

Sat 19th: lots of walking in/around the city thank to getting to/from the (amazing) terracotta warrior exhibition in the NSW Art Gallery. I had planned to go to the gym afterwards but had car trouble :-(

Sun 20th: thankfully I had organised to meet TA for a long ride otherwise I would probably have stayed in bed & gone to the gym later in the day instead.

TA wanted an "undulating" ride and, as domestique, it was my responsibility to deliver. And deliver I did :-D TA came out to Penrith & we rode the Northern Rd to Harrington Park via a loop of Greendale for good measure. Very hot & humid weather conditions this morning. I have rarely, if ever, been more happy to get off the bike than I was today.

Finished up with an enjoyable (and leisurely) breakfast at the Coffee Club where we were joined by R. A great way to start a day. Thanks TA! 70.8km in 3hrs

Another busy week ahead. Hopefully I can start to get some routine into my life & business..

MTD:
Swim: 3.85km
Bike: 124.9km