Kevin's Training Diary 2025

Having been made redundant from my job, I now have all the time in the world to train. Except this week I had a doggo to look after, while Lorna was away at a conference, and he takes a ridiculous amount of supervision.  Also, I had a race in Edinburgh this weekend that included Scottish Champs, British Champs, Euro qualifiers, ... and is the only draft-legal race that I can access, so I didn't want to just go nuts with training this week and ruin that. I expect to ramp up from next week until I can find a new job (or accept one of the pair of poor job offers that I already have). I raced almost a mirror image of last year losing a few seconds on each run and about 20 on the bike, despite having to ride almost solo for the entire ride. Considering how badly I have been performing in the year in between I am actually really pleased with that.  Actuals, (T arget) -  Swim 6.7  miles / 10,400  m. (5.6 miles). Bike 66.1 miles. (84.0 miles).   MTB 21.4 miles. (25...

Coming out of Covid I definitely took some time to get back to volume and a bunch of minor life events have again nibbled away at sessions to bring me under my target numbers.  I did race my first Aquathlon of the year and it went well enough. I didn't swim great. I swam okay on time, but my form was not great. On the plus side of that, Lorna managed to get some good video of my current swim stroke and I have some things that I can work on. I then followed that up with a solid run.  And then the following weekend I backed that up with a decent Parkrun. Again, not great, but solid and with clear things to work on.  I am also about to have a chunk of extra training time as I have been made redundant from my current job. Not a huge surprise given the recent contract losses at my employer have left them with very little work in my specialist field.  I have already paid for all my summer international entries, and have money laid aside for travel for those as well. S...