I in some way repeated Tuesday’s training formula… with a little difference. I nearly collapsed after the run. I can only assume that I haven’t recovered from Tuesday’s double day and that hit me hard.

It was a treadmill run –  haven’t been on the treadmill in a while – but I doubt this was the cause of the discomfort. The run was a planned 42min test @ 14km/h @ 1 degree elevation; a run that would normally require some hard efforts to alleviate the boredom. Yesterday however I never got going. After 5 minutes I was feeling bad and waiting for the legs to warm up – 10 minutes into the run I felt dreadful so decided to stretch the legs with a minute @ 17km/h (3:31/km) and a minute at 12km/h to recover to be back at 14km/h with 30 minutes remaining. Legs successfully stretched and now I’m thinking of quitting the workout. I somehow managed to struggle through and finish with the last 2.5 minutes @ 16km/h (3:45/km). All metrics were WAY off what they should be for that workout. RPE, HR, sensation in legs – all at almost race level. I actually examined the treadmill to see if it was on a slope or had something wrong with it. Found nothing. Some would say that it was now time to rest. Well that didn’t happen. I was swimming with the club four hours later and cruising pretty well: Hitting the (LCM) 200s  in 3:03 and the 100s all in under 1:30. Did a hard last 200 and came in at 2:59.

Today I had planned to row 10km. I scrapped that, will rest today and try to put a good run in tomorrow and a bike session on Sunday.

It’s been a good few days – I trained every day from Saturday to Tuesday; The latter being a double day. Yesterday was also a double difficult set day. A 17km run (150 av. HR @ 4:39/km) and a bloody difficult swim set in the evening – main set was 40 x 50m starting on 0:50.

I sit here tired. Ready for a rest and ready to build on these last few good days.

The swim on Thursday was bloody difficult. I was forced to lead the lane and as a result felt hunted for the first of the two main sets – 10x100m on 1:45 start. I managed to hit them all in 1:30 or under but was pretty shelled after and the 5x200m that followed was pure survival.

That scuppered my plan for Friday morning training; I just didn’t see the point because I was still tired. The knock-on effect was a zero day on Friday because I didn’t have the time to train later on.

To remedy things I went out and ran the Ursvik Xtrem today in extremely muddy conditions – I’m guessing that by the time I got home my shoes weighed double what the did at the start of the run. It was slow, steady and not very impressive. Not to worry – it’s a benchmark for the year and that’s a good thing. I’d like to run this once a week all year – it can only help. Also, it’s similar to Ö-till-Ö terrain.

Not sure what I’ll get done for the rest of the weekend. Let’s see how it plays out.

Yesterday I did a moderately difficult 10km rowing session followed by 10 minutes in the pool. I had planned on running today but have now decided to skip it and swim tonight, that way I’ll be able to get a good run done tomorrow.