The Mileage Block

Okay this week is week one of a six week mileage block and I've been working on the training over this week to get it into a structure for the next 5 weeks.

So far this week is going well and all being good I should be sitting around 15-16 hours;  Monday started with a very light spin and a short run; to be honest I've not counted it, as it was more of an active recovery and a chance to check that my bike is A okay (which it seems to be) after the weekend fun lol not!  My long ride will be 4 hours and long run 2hrs 30 and as this is my first week it'll be zone 2; a rule my running coach used in week one was nothing with any intensity just get the miles in;  which I'm applying to the long stuff this week.

The next 5 weeks should be around 18-20 hours; with long rides of 5-6 hours and my long runs 2hrs 30-40; I will do one 3 hour run but feel doing a 3 hour run every week is too risky with the year I had last year through the periformus syndrome.   I'm also going to take some of my old marathon training and incorporate a long steady zone 3 of about 90 mins and one of them will be replaced with a long fartlek that I used to do; basically run zone 3 for an hour then go into a progression of descending by minute intervals from 6 mins hard 6 mins at z3 pace down to 30s then finish with 6 mins hard 6 mins z3 pace.  Lol my coach had a great sense of humour putting that last 12 mins in after the 30s ones!

My long stuff will be done generally at the beginning of the week to accommodate the races I have lined up;  the duathlon that was cancelled I think was a blessing;

Races in 6-Week Mileage Block

19th May - Selkirk Olympic Distance
2nd June - OW Sprint Triathlon
9th June - Peebles Sprint Triathlon

I also have some Thursday night TTs but I'm not doing them all; I've decided they have to fit my training programme rather than the other way around.   I'll have some open water swimming on a Thursday instead of the TT or like in week one my long ride is on Friday so I binned the 25 mile TT lol plus the weather forecast was appalling for this night!

My long rides need to be accommodated around my family so to that end they need to be slightly different to the schedule;  basically my husband has agreed to take Iain to school on these mornings; he's going in gear he can run in lol poor kid; I'm getting going early so that I can get a large chunk done before preschool finishes;  I'll run down pick him up and he's going to run the mile back with me;he can easily run a mile in 10 minutes;  I'll then finish the rest of the session but even on the 7 hour one I should only have a couple of hours left!  Basically I' ll have done about 20 mins run in the middle :) 

So excited :)