Kevin's Training Diary 2025

No need to use minor life events as an excuse for being slightly under my numbers this fortnight. After 5-years of successfully dodging Covid it has finally caught up with me, and to be honest I am not a fan. I haven't had much in the way of respiratory effects, and what I did have was mitigated by my asthma medication. I did have some fairly intense gastro-intestinal effects, and the trademark loss of appetite, taste and smell. Despite having a week with no training and an average step count under 5,000/day I have dropped more than 5kg. Obviously lots of red below, but given that I did 3 decent races in the 8 days before succumbing to illness, and I think I will be clear of the effects before racing Glasgow Uni Aquathlon next weekend, it could have been much worse. I have also completed the in-person days for my coaching course. Now I just need to finish up the paperwork for that.  Actuals, (T arget) -  Swim 2.3  miles / 3,700  m. (5.6 miles). Bike 32.0 miles. (84.0...

I have missed a bit of cycling as life and appointments took chunks out of my available time, but everything else has gone well. I did manage to get in my first block of mountain biking for the year. All just in and out the railway line on the flat, but it was wet and muddy in places, so at least slightly better than being on the turbo.   I am slightly short on swimming in this fortnight, having traded another early swim session for sleep, but still broadly on course for the year due to the extra couple of swims I got in week 1. I am slightly behind on the bike, but literally by a single ride at this point. If we hadn’t been away again at the weekend I would have rolled round it on the Sunday afternoon. Running I am comfortably over on miles, and interestingly have made an accidental but fairly major change to how I am getting those miles in. In previous years I have relied on running for base fitness, with a lot of short jogs and slow, easy miles, knowing that when races approach ...