Training week 14 March 2011

Bleh, it's been a while already... I've been ill most of last week. In the last moments of the experiment, Neovite has let me down. On the other hand, has it really? It took 2 weeks after the very stressful Scotland trip and a close encounter with hypothermia to actually get ill. It knocked me bad and I spent most of the week in bed.
So now, I'm back into training and have had to re-adjust my goal races and all after missing Clumber Park and also the MK 10 with the cold on Sunday. So here we go. Starting all over again:

Monday, 14 March 2011
Swim session, technique, 60 min
2x (100 m front crawl/ backstroke, 50 m side kick)
3x (50m stroke count, 50 m fists, 50m stroke count-1, 50m race pace (1500) with stroke count-1), 10 sec rest (started on 43, ended on 43)
6x25 open water sprint (different start tasks, total carnage, loved it)
200m pack swim
Total distance: 1.25 km

Friday, 18 March
This was the start of the training week-end at Sandy Balls (and yes, this is a place) in the New Forest. We started off with a wee recce run, which I struggled with. The first run in 2 weeks was a bit of a shock to the system. But I held on and slowly towards the end, my body started relax into running again. It's beautiful out there and I really like it, but no one told me it was THIS hilly. To top it all off, I forgot to save my data and the second run is missing its warm-up because it's stored as the warm-down for this one... sigh... out of practice, clearly.
Garmin data

Saturday, 19 March, morning
Decided that it wasn't smart to do an interval session and instead opted to just go for a long-ish run to ease myself further into running. After a freezing cold start, it turned into a lovely day and morning. Sunny and just a proper spring day.
Garmin data

Saturday, 19 March, afternoon
We went for a wee MTB ride with the girls. This was thought to be 20 miles and quite a bit off-road but it was all change. We got lost a bit and then were short on time, so we opted for a different route and it wasn't off-road at all, really. But it was a lovely ride in the sun and just great to explore the area a bit.
Garmin data

Sunday, 20 March
Initially we thought we'd ride almost to the coast and all in all cover about 40 miles. But again it was all change because, again, we got lost... the description wasn't terribly clear so we ended up riding just as we thought and eventually following way markers to towns that sounded familiar and would point us back into the direction of Sandy Balls. We made it back safely after 2.5 hours and it was lovely again. I'm looking forward to the Sportive I'm doing in a couple of weeks down here.
Garmin data