August Stats!

 I can safely do this mid-day on 31st August because, quite frankly, I have a hangover and the only exercise I’m likely to do today is to walk to the shops for some chips to have with dinner!

So currently I’m not following any specific triathlon plan whatsoever .. my “training”, well exercise, is to do some strength, some yoga, kind of following a Garmin 10k plan (have a 10k end of Sept) and then some biking and swimming whenever I feel like it.

Sport	Count	KM	Minutes
Swim	4	6.5	207.29
Bike	10	285.55	782.8
Run	10	37.55	279.24
Strength	5	-	153
Yoga	5	-	155
Walk	22	55.34	712.56

I’m recording walks mostly because I think it’s good to do them.. expect this will decrease as the rest increases but I also tend to add a walk at the end of my runs.. that will no doubt end as the weather gets wetter and/ or colder… we also go on walking holidays so walking counts in my exercise book even if I hopefully won’t be doing too much of that during actual triathlons!

Yoga - I have two go to sessions from the guys at DoYogaWithMe who I’ve used for years, even as far back as when I first started this blog! So at least I’ve managed weekly yoga - well done me!

My strength has taken a bit of a back seat this month to be honest - I’ve been doing 10-14 sessions of 30min each a month this year … mostly because that has been the foundation on which I wanted to start building before I decided to do anything more substantial. I’ve kind of “made up” for that by actually doing some swimming…

Swim:  Without a word of a lie that’s the most time and distance in the pool since January 2020 !!! I’ve enjoyed getting back in the pool - substantially helped because the local leisure centre got demolished during the pandemic and is now a really nice pool to be in! Although I was a bit surprise to see how busy it was last Monday morning on a bank holiday! I’ve had my swim filmed and have a couple of things I want to work on. I’m also having some osteo treatment every other week to help with left sided tightness (for want of a better word). It’s helping is all I know

Bike: Totally unstructured, some of these have been short trips around the local area or zip into town (to go to the gym).. I did go on one really long ride one Tuesday coming in at 80k over 4 hours and lots of climbs.. it was a glorious day and was second longest ride this decade (!) and only slightly shorter then the longest which was in May 2020 pre surgery. No wonder I was bloody knackered for a day or so after, but I was really surprisingly happy from the ride… both being able to get up the hills as well as the distance.

Run: As normal my running is tricksy… my calf was problematic coming into the month so I was trying and failing to run… but with some patience, tape and rehab I’ve got back to running and kind of following the program…however, because I’m doing other things, I’m basically trying to make sure I get 2 runs of the 4 from the plan each week (I missed some of that at the start of the month). My “race” is at the end of Sept so 4 or 5 weeks out - I’m looking forward to it as long…. Just hope I don’t pick up any injury whilst on our walking holiday! 

PLAN FOR SEPTEMBER

There isn’t one! Other then do the Windsor 10k at the end of the month and be adequately prepped to be able to finish it. It’ll be a decade PB as long as I finish 😹 …