Originally written in German. Translated to English by AI — please excuse any awkward phrasing.
Quick summary of this week: produced a lot of broken gear, fitness is improving …
I already wrote about the equipment issues, so here’s the athletic side of the last training week:
- Monday: 1h swimming with longer intervals at race pace
- Tuesday: 1h running (with 8 hill sprints, 3x30sec sprints, 3x3min threshold run and 1x8min threshold run), 75min cycling with 6x90sec at threshold
- Wednesday: 1h swimming with longer intervals at race pace
- Thursday: 3.5h cycling with 4x30min at race pace and a 1.5h brick run. OK, it turned into more like 2.5h straight above race pace on the bike — thanks to the Kraichgau hills. I was pushing hard with no sign of fatigue at all … then 1h easy brick run at 4:25 min/km, pushing the last 30 minutes to 4:00 pace. That session was absolutely awesome — things are moving forward
- Friday: 2.5h continuous run. A few weeks ago I never would have thought to tack on 2.5h of running after that kind of prior load. I felt pretty good and just wanted to try it. It went well up to about 2h, then it got really ugly toward the end. Somehow I fought through — still managed 4:29 min/km overall. After that I was properly wrecked though
- Saturday: I was planning 1.5h swimming, but it turned into just 50 minutes. Nothing clicked from the start — completely empty
- Sunday: somewhat recovered again, 5h on the bike through the Kraichgau to check out the bike course for the City Triathlon Heilbronn. Back home, still 30min easy running on the schedule