Fortnightly Review - Weeks 17 & 18

Another fortnight with no swimming. But I am booked back in the pool 5 times this coming week. 

I am a little short on bike miles for the fortnight, but that is because I did a lot of them no the mountain bike. I did spend 6 hours on the bike, just the pace suffered as I was off-road and uphill. I am happy enough that this is still trade off to spend more time on the mountain bike is worth it, even though I am missing targets. My accumulated bike miles for the year are still more than 10% ahead after I spent so much of the bad weather on the turbo trainer earlier in the year.

I am still running too much. Not quite double but still over 23 miles too much this fortnight, and none of it was particularly fast either. I did a couple of short runs under the 8-minute mile pace to finish off my SmashRun badge but everything else has just been easy jogging. This coming Friday will be my 500th running day in a row. That feels like a good number to stop at and have a rest day. 

Short on core and weights as well as I have not managed to consistently get morning sessions in before I start work.

Something is wrong with either my general health or my training. Over the last month my resting heart rate has steadily climbed from 43 to 50. That could be a sign of overtraining, but I did less in April than either February or March so I am not sure why that would be showing up now. And I don't feel any more fatigued. It could be just accumulated stress from everything that is going on at the minute, but I don't feel particularly stressed apart from dealing with nonsense at my work and that shouldn't be upping my RHR by 20% from this time in a normal year. 

If it is a cumulative stress issue then I don't expect it to resolve any time soon. Over the next fortnight; I will be back in the pool this coming week, I might be doing a race a week on Wednesday, I restart Club swim training next Monday, I should be finished with my last set of aligners next Friday, my building work should be finished within the next week (although I have a 3 week wait for blinds and carpets), and I am booked for my first vaccine this coming Saturday as well. 

I am only 8 weeks from what should be ETU Walchsee. I am now at the point where the restrictions and rules in place for going too and from Austria to compete are so complex that I am 80% sure that I won't be going. I have booked nothing in terms of travel or accommodation and unless there is a major changes of rules my mid-May I am not likely to go. 

Actuals, (Target) - 

Swim 0 miles / 0 m. (5.8 miles).
Bike 69.8 miles. (79.2 miles). MTB 32.5 miles. (19.8 miles)
Run 52.9 miles. (29.7 miles).

1 short core, 1 short light weights and 2 stretching / rollering session. 36 mins of yoga. 

Cumulative Actual, (Cumulative Target), [Cumulative Stretch] -
S 0.0, (15.2), [16.0],
B 696.2, (626.1), [657.4],  MTB 125.4, (156.5), [164.4],

R 662.2, (483.8), [508.0].

Core         - 23, (18), [27]
Weights    - 23, (18), [27]

Stretching - 18, (18), [27]
Yoga         - 28, (18), [32]. 

Fast run sessions - 9, (>16) 

Junk swim sessions  - 0, (<1).