Monday I started the morning with a long yoga session. I decided this morning that I am going to try and go through the whole of 30 Days of Yoga on Yoga with Adriene again. This time I am going to try and get through it in the 30 days though. In the evening I went to swimming, which felt pretty patchy. Some of that was due to still being tired from Saturday's long swim the rest was just due to inconsistent turns.
I also tried to fix the drive train problems on my road bike, with absolutely no success. It looks like the rear derailleur is slightly bent so no amount of adjusting is going to sort out the problem.
On Tuesday Dexter came to visit. I knew he was coming when I wrote my plan for the week but my knee just didn't let me plan to run with him a lot. I did manage to go out for a jog around Dyce with him in the evening.
Wednesday I did my yoga and then took Dexter to the beach for a walk. That tired him out enough to get me peace and quiet to study in the afternoon.
I went to Bucksburn for a swim at lunchtime as planned. Just a steady 1,500m through some of the lunchtime traffic and then a short warm down to take me through the half hour mark. Again I was through 1500m in just outside 27 min pace despite at least 20 seconds of traffic.
Thursday I took Dexter out for a loop around Dyce. Then in the evening I took my TT bike out to the park and spent some time practicing mounting and dismounting without taking the shoes off the bike. Dismounting I have been doing at races for a while but mounting with the shoes already on the bike is still a skill I need to add. I then did the next yoga session on the programme when I got back.
Friday I did Day 5 of yoga. It was a very short session which was handy as my allergies to Dexter are starting to build up to the annoying level. then I went out for a jog with Dexter but he was being a pain and refusing to run, and even to walk in some places. He had such a strop at one point that he managed to break his extending lead. Despite saying I wouldn't manage to run with him every day, I almost have. The one day that I didn't, we were out for a 45 minute walk on the beach instead.
In the evening we dropped Dexter back at home on our way to the cinema to see Hitman 47.
In order to stay on course for doing all 30 yoga sessions in 30 days I decided to double up on Saturday so that I didn't have to squeeze in a session on the Sunday morning. I looked out all my race kit and double checked everything. In the afternoon I went to help set out the course for Sunday's Alford Sprint Triathlon. Having put the signs out, two of us then took the opportunity to pedal around the new bike course at easy recce pace. Then I got out the Veet and tidied up my legs for Sunday's swim and rechecked all my race kit about 5 more times.
Sunday's Alford Novice Triathlon will get a report to itself.
I sacrificed the ancillary sessions this week in favour of the massive yoga increase. I could have claimed a core session against the first of Saturday's yoga sessions, and I could claim stretching sessions against any of them. So I am not really worried that I ignored the stretching and core as I have the same benefit from the yoga sessions. The lack of bike miles was just laziness. Even though I shifted sessions to run with Dexter I could easily have done the other 10 bike miles, pretty much anywhere.
Target totals - Swim 2.4 miles. Bike 35.0 miles. Run 12.0 miles. 2 short core, 1 short light weights and 2 short stretching sessions. 60 mins of yoga.
Monday - Yoga 38 mins.
Swim with TPT 2,150m in 54 mins.
Tuesday - Yoga 33 mins.
Run 3.7 miles in 33 mins.
Wednesday - Yoga 23 mins.
Swim at Bucksburn 1,650m in 31 mins.
Bike mount / dismount practice 8.2 miles in 37 mins.
Yoga 20 mins.
Friday - Yoga 16 mins.
Easy run 3.7 miles in 42 mins.
Saturday - Yoga 16 mins.
More yoga 31 mins.
Bike course recce 10.2 miles in 40 mins.
Sunday - Alford Novice Triathlon
Swim 400m in 6 mins 32 (plus 40m warm-up)
Bike 8.4 miles in 27 mins
Run 1.9 miles in 14 mins.
Actuals - Swim 2.6 miles (4,240m). Bike 26.8 miles. Run 12.9 miles. 0 short core, 0 short light weights and 0 short stretching sessions. 177 mins of yoga.
Cumulative (Original cumulative target) [New cumulative target]
S 72.0 (66.0) [71.0],
B 1704.8 (1454.3) [1646.4],
R 551.9 (442.3) [530.4].
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