I'm baaaaaack

After a fortnight of dragging high schoolers to speakers and workshops around Sydney, (and trying to maintain guardian-like responsibility over them 24 hours a day!) I'm back. I managed to squeeze in four runs over this time though: 3-4km with Miners the Tuesday after GC, which was very much needed the way my legs were feeling; 7km or so from my Sydney accommodation in Redfern to the Sydney botanic gardens and back on the Friday morning (never knew how nice Sydney was to run in!); then two runs in the last week with one of the students lasting half an hour and an hour respectively around Macquarie university.

For the first time I seem to have completed a proper recovery cycle which is hopefully the first step in a new way of training which will see me actually doing things like recovery runs, easy days and tapers...

My next big thing is the Noosa Tri on October 29 so I've written myself a program which covers the next three months in three phases, basically training for all three disciplines but with a focus on one in each month. The first phase is a run-focus, which incorporates the Bridge to Brisbane and finishes with the Noosa half where I'm going to go for 1:35, I then move into a cycle-focus phase which includes a couple of rides of 90-100km (very long for me), take another week easy, and then have a month of swimming focus before tapering for the big one.

Each week has a long swim, ride and run, a brick set and a swim technique session (which may just involve me doing some drills as a coach is a bit out of my budget atm) and, depending on the focus an extra swim, ride or run of race distance. The lengths of the brick set and swim technique change based on the focus as well.

Hopefully, all this should leave me well-rounded, strong and fit by the time Noosa rolls around...

Now I just have to shake the last bit of this cold those kids have given me!