Rubbish Weather, Peak Week and May Updates

Well  I'm in the middle of Peak Week in my training 20 hours this week and then the 3 week taper beings for the race. Unfortunately the weather is back to winter by the looks of it with the wind and rain.

I don't mind running in the wind and rain but biking becomes a right pain in the backside, it's taking all my motivation to get outside on the bike, when by now it should be warm and sunny evenings. That would certainly make the biking motivation a bit easier to build up.

Ran 20.5 miles on Tuesday for the first time in this training plan. Felt good for all of it and managed a good time. I realise this doesn't reflect the marathon on the race day, I know mental strength will be what goes me through that marathon. But at least I know the running is my strongest of the three sports and if I get my head down, the miles will soon be ticked off.

I have realised the last few days, that I have been thinking of the end of this peak week as the end of it all, and it'll get easier, sometimes forgetting that the whole 30 week training has been leading up to an actual race... I haven't actually done the hard part yet. I'm hoping that the tapering weeks will let me realise that there is a race at the end of all this... and its going to be a day of hard work!!

For the last few weeks I feel like I have been grinding out quite a few of the training sessions, lacking motivation to actually start and then motivation to continue once I have got going. It's been tough but I've always been motivated by the main goal at the end of it all, so this has kept me going overall. When the taper starts I'm sure my energy and motivation will return.

May Progress Report

Below are my training hours for May, as you can see I have again upped by distances and times from April, also I seem to have done a lot more running in this period without really noticing, which either means I'm getting fitter, or I'm getting lost on my long runs! ha ha!

The overall figures are a bit insane to look at, since December 5th 2011 I have swam, biked and ran 5500km?! I guess I will need to remember this on the start line on the 1st July.

May

Swim 10 hours 11 minutes     30.5km
Bike   33 hours 49 minutes   987.3km
Run    18 hours 21 minutes   248.4km

Total 62 hours 21 minutes 1266.2km
Daily Avg. 2 hour 00 minutes  40.84km


Overall Totals

Swim    49 hours 34 minutes   144.8km
Bike   150 hours 14 minutes  4489.5km
Run      64 hours 38 minutes    883.7km

Total 264 hours 24 minutes      5518km


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Well, its definitely on the down hill to the race now, the standard nervous feeling starts in my stomach when ever I read, or think about the actual race day... hoping the weather improves before then.

But I will have to plan for all weather eventualities come race day... I'm sure those plans and panics will be in a future post.