Good times

One MD once said to me that if you ask from an athlete about his/her training, the response tells you right away does the doc have to be alerted or not.

• If an athlete tells him that "I'm aching here and little more over here", athlete is good to go.

• If an athlete tells him that "I'm feeling great", it is already too late to react.

That being said, I feel like being right in the middle: I am able to run, bike and swim but I'm sore here and there. But nothing is injured. What more can I ask for.... The current amount of running is far less than I have used to but on the other hand this is the first April ever when I have biked 800+kms.

I don't have any training program to follow and thus I have had hard time to reply to continuing questions if I'm right on the target in my training. I don't know that yet. My response is that I really don't know, but I'm enjoying the ride!

Last two weeks

Today I finished a sort of mini training camp. It started on Thursday with brick workout, continued with running and a bike ride on Thursday. On Saturday I swam and ran a short tempo run while running home from the swim arena. On Sunday I spent 4.5 hrs (131km) on a TT-bike with a group of triathletes and that was followed by lot of eating (the best part in training) and a swim session in the evening. Today I just ran. 

On Saturday I updated my TT-bike by replacing the 70x70mm stem with 70x30mm. Now I have to start stretching more...

So in all, I'm again able to run. Due to the nice weather, biking is currently much more enjoyable than it was before our visit to Canary Island. In April I have biked slightly shy of 700km and swam much more than a year ago. Let's see what happens...

Mini Festival of Hammers

Marathoner Nate Jenkins launched the high quantity training period,  more 1.5 weeks of pure smashing of mileage.

My stay in Canary Islands is not at all as fulfilling or demanding as Jenkins's training period, but I have been punishing my legs on a bike. In addition, I have been able to run a few miles. With regards to the swimming, I have done couple of loops in our pool..