Week15 Review and Week16 Preview

Week 15 was the first of two harder weeks. We still had some snow and ice laying around to be cautious with, but that only really had any effect on the Wednesday evening long run. Of course rain and wind added character to the long saturday ride (shortened that one a little). The diagram above shows what I did compared to what was on the schedule. Of the 9 sessions in the week, 6 were done exactly as planned, 2 were off the pace and one was done late and over distance. In all I'm happy with the week, it was always going to be a tough week and if I'd done it we'd be thinking that it ought to have been harder.

Week 16 is now upon us and that's due to be another hard week. The schedule is in the graphic below. It's pretty much the same as week 15, with a couple of modifications - a 30 minute swim competition on the sunday evening rather than an additional run and 1 mile efforts on the Friday rather than 1km efforts. Also included in the graphic is a preview of what might be in store for the recovery week 17 and then a sneak at what will be happening in the week leading up to the training camp in Lanzarote, were we can expect a lot of cycling (must get the brake cable fixed on the tt bike for that).