Kevin's Training Diary 2025

Another dissappointing fortnight. Partly will power, partly weather. I have accidentally stumbled to some green numbers, due to my s-curved trainnig plan dropping off cycling miles  towards the end of the year. The snow cost me a couple of days as even the mountain bike couldn't handle it. Then it iced over and that cost me a couple of run days. I am struggling a bit with getting up in the mornings for early sessions. Where I absolutely have to do them to get to the office I am fine, but any day I can excuse my way out of it, I have stayed in bed instead.  Trying to get my house in to a state that we can sell it and look at a move, and looking at new places, is also taking up chunks of time and effort that are nibbling away at my availability and my energy. The students are officially away on holiday from tomorrow so that frees me up from coaching commitments for the next 6 weeks. The trade off there is that while I get some time back I lose some structure. Actuals, (T arget) ...

I could blame my calf strain, or the degradation in my hip, for this terrible fortnight, but it would be a ridiculous lie. It has instead been a total failure of will-power. The weather has turned and I just have struggled to go out and do any of the sessions I had planned.  I have still beeen commuting, and going to the pool. But I am just rolling the bike and paddling around in the water rather than training properly.  I had two 'races' this week. I did the second in the Shadow Series of night hill runs, but I started easily until I was sure my calf was okay, and then one of the athletes I coach was stood at the side of the track and I stopped to check on him and lost a few minutes. (Turns out he had just dropped his airpod in the mud). Then I took a tempo run round the rest of the course.  Saturday we went out to Aboyne to do the Parkrun. I had a surprisingly good run given my calf and the missed training. I am going to write off this fortnight against the end of seaso...

I was on course for another solid block and a decent 5k until I strained my calf at Parkrun.  It seems to be fairly minor but I have missed a couple of days on the back of it.  Basketball League season starts this coming week. I am going to miss our first game but we are scheduled for 3 more this month. That will mean a little bit of adapting my normal sessions but will see what happens as I try to fit in those games.  Actuals, (T arget) -  Swim 6.4  miles / 10,300  m. (6.3 miles). Bike 71.8 miles. (84.0 miles).   MTB 24.5  miles. (25.8 miles). Run 51.0  miles. (38.7  miles).   0 short core,   2   short light weights   and  1  stretching / rollering session. 10   mins of yoga.   Cumulative Actual, (Cumulative Target), [Cumulative Stretch] - S 96.4 , (107.9 ),   [116.0] , B 1,711.1, (1,705.0) ,   [1,793.1] ,     MTB 642.1, (511.5),  [537.0 ], R 925.9, (924.9),   [971.0]...