Kevin's Training Blog of 2019

A short first week of 2019 as we start on a Tuesday this year. The 1st I will jog to first foot my granny in the morning and the 2nd I still have Dexter so easy run miles both days are on the plan. I am also going to do stretching, core and weights sessions over the two days.  Thursday I have to put the Range Rover in for MOT so will have to commute on the train. I will also get my first swim of the year in on Thursday evening. Straight in with a serious reps session. Friday I will commute on the bike. Partly to get a rest from the binge of run days but also because I have been very lazy on the bike recently and I need to get restarted.  That leaves me the weekend. Ideally there will be at least one more swim session in there somewhere, I have both bucksburn sessions in my calendar but I would rather go for one good reps session rather than two lazy junk sets.  Also a run reps session and a turbo session (or a real bike ride) to fit in but I will let the weathe...

ITU Pontevedra is in Week 18. So Q1 is entirely built around getting from my current fitness level to being competitive at a World Championship.  After that I don't really have a plan so I have blocked out some numbers based on a 'standard' season.  --------------------- I am going to stick with setting mileage targets as usual but I am going to put more effort in to breaking down each week and adding quality rather than just trying to get the mileage numbers.  As race targets: I already have the ITU Aquathlon Champs in Pontevedra, Spain in May, and hopefully the ETU Aquathlon Champs in Targa Mures, Romania in July. As with last year these races are probably coming too soon in the season for me since I am still trying to rehab after my second surgery. Also they are too close together this time to take a serious reboot between them so it is a case of picking one to target and accepting the impact it will have on the other.   As with last ye...

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