Training Review - Weeks 37 & 38

So I have finished my season. I still have a couple of races on my plan for the year, but they are low-key, just for fun, or for testing how my training is going rather than serious competitions. 

I have done a very low-key review of my season and I am slightly confused about why I am biking relatively well, but swimming and running relatively badly. 

The swimming I can sort of write off as my shoulder injury that isn't going away, and the lack of any external swim analysis probably means I am developing lots of bad habits that I can't see. 

The running, I have done as many miles, and at basically the same average pace as I did in 2022. Except then I ran 23 times under 19:30, including my 18:17 PB, and this year I haven't managed that once. My fastest 5k so far this year is a 20:16. The only reason I can come up with for this huge differential is the volume I had done in the previous 2 years was almost 50% higher. So on that minimal level of analysis I am just going to spend the next 6 months running 50% more and see what happens. 

Garmin clearly does not like this plan and has immediately moved my training status to 'unproductive' as it thinks I am verging on over-training having moved to 30-mile run weeks.But I actually already feel a bit better for it. I suspect gamin has run in to a region where it is counting my Covid week off in it's long-term load focus, but not in the short term (acute load) numbers and that has upset the algorithm more than me upping the miles. 


Actuals, (Target) - 

Swim 3.9 miles / 6,200 m. (6.3 miles).

Bike 90.4 miles. (91.0 miles). MTB 54.1 miles. (25.8 miles).

Run 60.9 miles. (37.8 miles). 

0 short core, 1 short light weights and 0 stretching / rollering session. 0 mins of yoga. 

Cumulative Actual, (Cumulative Target), [Cumulative Stretch] -

S 77.0, (89.0), [95.7],
B 1,477.2, (1,467.0), [1,540.0],  MTB 537.6, (440.1), [462.0],
R 755.6, (802.2), [842.3].

Core         - 9, (14), [34], 
Weights    - 9, (14), [34],
Stretching - 7, (14), [34],
Yoga         - 33, (28), [44]. 

Fast run sessions - 39, (38).

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