Week's end

Phew, made it to the end of the week. What a relief.

Training has more or less gone to plan this week with all key sessions ticked off. One or two supplementary sessions haven't gone as planned, one run and one paddle is missing from what I had intended, but neither of them are critical sessions. I might try and tick them off during the weekend, particularly the run, however, I don't like cramming training, so if they don't fit I won't lose sleep.

Still trying to carefully balance the new training program with fatigue. At the moment I would be tempted to say that fatigue is winning so I need to balance the urge to train more, more, more, with a sensible work load that will allow me to build fitness at a sustainable rate. The other consideration of course is that if I am too fatigued then I am not going to be executing sessions correctly which sort of defeats the purpose of those sessions. As I have written before, the athlete mindset is a funny balancing act. The urge to push harder and harder vs pushing so hard that it becomes self destructive or inefficient. Trying walk that tight rope at the moment. Easy week next week so that will allow a bit of recovery.

I have to say I am enjoying the training though. I always have. Good to be feeling like I am working hard again.

On the coaching side of things it has been a nice quiet sustainable week. Being winter a lot of athletes have quietened down a bit, although still plenty going on with 70.3 Worlds preparations and a couple of my athletes getting ready for their first Ironman in a week's time (very exciting). A few coaches appointments tomorrow and a couple of associated programs to update, so not too much on the plate. A good thing too to be honest because this weekend is going to be absolutely flat out and so it is good to minimise the load where possible. One novel task that has come my way from coaching is to record an interview with myself for the athletes doing the Ironman. They like to document their events with little vlogs and they want me to record myself answering a few questions. Fair to say that speaking to camera is not something that sits in my comfort zone so we will see how that goes. I hope they have good editing software.

Looks like another busy weekend, but it is a relief to have made it.