Training Summary Week 7

After Week 6 was completely written off due to a cold, Week 7 was always going to be about easing myself back into training gently to prevent a relapse, and this is exactly what I did. The sessions at the beginning of the week were easy and I increased the intensity through the week and on Friday I did an hour on the gym bike hill programme at Level 14. I headed up to Halton for the RAF Cycling & RAF Triathlon AGM/Training weekend and had a good 3 hour ride on Saturday, doing efforts on the hills and then easy cycling on the flats. Sunday should have been a similar ride with the tri club but I opened my curtains to a layer of snow and over breakfast more snow was falling and so the decision was made to cancel the ride and I headed home. I managed a little over 7 hours of training this week which is a good stepping stone up from last week and I now need to increase this in the weeks ahead.

I have also been thinking about my training programme and I reckon the 50 mile turbo TT will be introduced during March. Double the distance, double the time and double the pain. Bring it on!