Originally written in German. Translated to English by AI — please excuse any awkward phrasing.
After the last exhausting weeks, there were several rest days at the start of the new week, before a small 5-day training block kicked off from Friday:
- Monday: complete rest day
- Tuesday: 1h swimming, technique focus
- Wednesday: 45min run, legs still feeling pretty rough
- Thursday: power test on the bike — not quite the result I wanted, but honestly not much more was to be expected
- Friday: long run, 2:20h. The first 75 minutes were awful — technically rough and uneven. After that the legs opened up and it rolled really well until the 2h mark. Then the missing running miles started showing … Thankfully that threshold shifts back by about 10 minutes each week
- Saturday: 1h strength training to wake up, 1h swimming after that, and in the afternoon 2.5h easy cycling
- Sunday: 4h cycling with 3x aerobic intervals on Königstuhl, finishing with a 30min brick run