Sometimes life gets in the way but from time to time that’s ok :)

The week started off strong with a swim a strength session and continued into an amazing bike/run session with threshold efforts.

To counterbalance that I added an super easy bike ride and a premature rest day (usually they are on Friday). This got me fired up for my Friday swim and it went on amazingly!
The main set consisted of 2x200 @ moderate effort, 5x100 @ strong effort, and 6x50 @ max effort.
It all culminated in me having 1:38 min/km to 1:41 min/km splits on the 100s which is nuts if I consider how long I have been out of the pools this year and how few swim sessions I had in these 5 weeks.

Unfortunately, it looks like my swims might hit a road block for 3 to 4 weeks since new anti Covid-19 measures are kicking in and I might not swim for a few weeks but I’ll try compensating for this with some additional endurance work on the bike and some more work on my upper body strength.

One more adjustment I will have to do is to split my long bike rides into “shorter” workouts. They are already getting close to 3 hours so my goal is to split them up into smaller chunks going up to 2 or 2:30 at the most.

I have some experience with these kind of workouts from before. I used to do some of the work late in the evening and then finish it first thing in the morning. That way you still carry some of the fatigue over but also have recovered a bit and can execute the training as best as possible.

The only training I missed this week was the long 1:15 run but since on Monday I would have had my swim I can just “redo” this training. I don’t usually do this kind of catching up but in this case I think it’s OK.