Originally written in German. Translated to English by AI — please excuse any awkward phrasing.
The last training week in another three-week block is behind me — a recovery week follows … and then it’s only three weeks until Frankfurt. Race numbers were distributed there this week too — unfortunately I have to give up last year’s privilege of the first start wave and go out with the masses.
But back to the actual topic: the schedule of the last training week, with the Challenge Kraichgau as the highlight. I’d already hinted that I wouldn’t exactly be rested going into the race … and that’s exactly how it went, because the schedule included:
- Monday: 1h swimming
- Tuesday: 1.5h cycling with 6×90 second tempo intervals, ending the day with 90min running including one of my favorite sessions — the tens (9min slow, 1min fast … 1min slow, 9min fast)
- Wednesday: 1h swimming
- Thursday: 5h cycling and 30min brick run. The bike session got really tough toward the end, especially mentally …
- Friday: 2.5h easy continuous run
- Saturday: 1h easy running and 1.5h swimming. “Easy running” is putting it nicely — nothing was working. Not much left in the legs at all
- Sunday: Challenge Kraichgau (race report coming separately in the next few days)