The game is on!

After a week of easy training sessions I am pushing hard again.

I have entered the base phase of my training where the main focus is to gain endurance with easier zone 2 workouts while also kicking it up a little bit with some speed workouts to gradually increase both aspects of training. We want to keep pushing a high effort for a long time. That’s why it’s important to gradually increase the training load and get ready for the race specific workouts in the months to come.

One thing I started doing from this week on is to have a one brick session per week. It’s simply a bike workout followed by a run.

Currently I have a short slow run after the long bike session but a few (pre COVID) years back when I was getting ready for Ironman Klagenfurt I had a lot of success with having a steady/moderate bike session followed by a speed oriented run right after it so I am going to incorporate this into the training week from now on.

I, unfortunately, missed a swim session because of our kids being sick so I chose to be closer to home if I am needed.

Other than that, the week went excellent. I had strength in my legs when I needed it. The (only) swim went surprisingly good so I am really excited for kicking it up this week.

One thing that went a little out of control this week was my weight management or to be more precise my eating habits. Since the holiday season is coming there are a ton of goodies now on the store shelves begging me to pick them up and I gave in a few times which is reflected in my weight which is back up at 78 kg but I have dropped under 17% body fat while getting closer to 80% muscle mass.

All in all it’s looking promising if I can curb that sweet tooth a little better :)

*estimated by my scale

As for my training volume. It’s picking up and so far I am coping well with it. I feel rested even though I sometimes don’t get a lot of sleep but it can always get worse so I won’t complain too much :)