Originally written in German. Translated to English by AI — please excuse any awkward phrasing.
I’ve rarely gotten soaked so often and for so long in a single week, with today being the highlight 🙁 At least it was warm — I’d still rather have sun back.
- Monday: 3.5h with 3x45min aerobic interval and 1h brick run, the last 20min also aerobic. As hard as it sounds, but enormous fun.
- Tuesday: attempt at 1h swim training — without a wetsuit I would probably have drowned
- Wednesday: 75min cycling with 6x90sec tempo intervals and 1.5h running. The 90 minutes of running was split into nine 10-minute segments — 9min easy, 1min hard; 8min easy, 2min hard … down to 1min easy, 9min hard. A session you can easily destroy yourself with, which I successfully did. Oh, and both sessions in the rain.
- Thursday: 1h swim training or something like it — I was in the water and got wet; calling it swimming is a stretch
- Friday: 2.5h continuous run, also with water from above. From the start it was more cramp than fight — bad legs and above all zero running technique
- Saturday: 1.5h in the pool
- Sunday: 3.5h on the bike, completely showered multiple times and eventually gave up in frustration. Needless to say the short brick run was also in the rain
Next up is one more really hard week with the Challenge Kraichgau as the finale, then it’s almost tapering time. What I’ll be capable of I can’t really gauge yet — like last year, I’m doing this race straight out of full training. “Full training” here means a 5h bike session with 0.5h brick run on Thursday, a 2.5h run on Friday, and a 1.5h swim plus 1h run on Saturday.