Originally written in German. Translated to English by AI — please excuse any awkward phrasing.
What an amazing week … low volume in terms of load, the number of sessions was also reduced a bit … short and fast was the motto. That’s a lot of fun, especially when you can’t stop grinning during the ride 🙂
What was on the schedule?
- Monday: 1h aerobic swimming
- Tuesday: 75 easy minutes on the time trial bike
- Wednesday: 3h cycling and 45min brick run. The bike part consisted of 30min warm-up, 1h at race pace -5%, 0.5h at race pace -3%, 0.5h at race pace, and 2x10min at race pace +5% — it ended up being the fastest training session of my life (34.8 km/h average). Already during the ride I had a big grin on my face and just thought the whole situation was absolutely great. The brick run was equally just fantastic — the legs ran on their own and I had to hold myself back from going too fast
- Thursday: 1h swimming, without a wetsuit and therefore pretty slow
- Friday: 45min easy running
- Saturday: 1h continuous run and 75min easy aerobic swimming
- Sunday: 1.5h cycling and 30min brick run — plus a déjà vu. I broke my average speed record from Wednesday by another 1.3 km/h — things just clicked. The run was also insanely fast. And that grin again ….. The déjà vu was on the Rhine levee, just before the airfield, when for the second time this year I was attacked by a buzzard! Fortunately I saw it coming — the sun was perfectly positioned behind me so I could see the shadow. After two attempts the bird luckily turned away without actually touching me.
Next Sunday is the day of days — when I’ll put everything on one card. Form seems to be there, especially comparing Wednesday’s and Sunday’s sessions to the same ones from last year.
Over the next few days I’ll post a daily preview of each discipline.