Originally written in German. Translated to English by AI — please excuse any awkward phrasing.
The title says it all — the man with the hammer showed up at just about every session … sometimes earlier, sometimes later, but always right on time. A very loyal and reliable companion… The high running mileage is still getting to me somehow — I’m nowhere near absorbing it as well as last year, or as well as before my forced one-month break.
- Monday: 1.5h easy spinning to roll the legs out and shake them loose — unfortunately didn’t work as hoped
- Tuesday: 80min continuous run with some short aerobic intervals, 1h aerobic swimming
- Wednesday: 3h aerobic bike session (3x Königstuhl, 1,100m of elevation total) with a 1h brick run afterward. Mentally and physically very demanding since my body was already pretty wrecked before the session. Downed a magic potion afterward and felt like new
- Thursday: 1.5h easy aerobic swimming
- Friday: 2:15h continuous run, this time without nutrition and really suffering toward the end
- Saturday: 1h swimming and an easy 1h run
- Sunday: 4h cycling, brick run was cancelled since I simply had nothing left
All signs point to a rest week — or at least a few rest days — since a bigger training block is coming up from Friday through Tuesday. Until then I’m hoping for good and fast recovery.