Finally starting to feel recovered / better.
HRV is improving 
(a bit of a dip on travel day which I would expect)
Monday
Travel plus 3km 4:58/km (just to transition and back)
Tuesday
50 minute easy spin
Wednesday
6km Moderate to Tempo 4:49/km (best run in weeks)
Thursday
Sea swim about 350m
Friday
Nothing
Saturday
Open water swim - 475m my best open water swim of the year, the very high salt makes it so buoyant compare to lakes and even other sea swims and the swell wasn’t too bad just under half a meter.
Sunday
Nothing. IM Cancelled and all outdoor activities
Monday (today)
A bit late, but here it is…
Sep.26
Swim – 0.0km
My swimming club re-started in September, but I didn’t make it to a single session. 
Bike – 636km
2nd highest month on 2026 and 13th highest since Jan.14. 
Where anything over 500km in a month is good for me.
Run – 61km
Still trying to rebuild this, edged my average run time up from 25mins in Aug. to 30mins in Sept.
Helped by running up Harrow Hill twice this month, compared to just once in the rest of 2026.
Hard to believe I ran up Harrow Hill 27 times in 2024 & 31 times in 2025!
But I’m still grateful to have slowly slogged my way to my biggest running month of 2026.
Time – 35h 17m
Training for 29/30 days, including 10 x double days, equals my biggest month of 2026.
By chance, it is also my 13th highest since Jan.14, where anything over 30 hours is good for me.
Weights
I am (very) slowly building up my use of dumbbells to help both protect my fragile shoulders from repeated injury and to finally get some vanity “guns”. 
Although, I’ve currently barely moved from peashooters to Saturday Night specials. 
Overall – I’m still trying to take a philosophical approach that my available training time will be linked to what that life allows me, so I take the positives from September and move on.
Cheers, Paul. 
6km easy
Not as hummid today, it was in the high 80s even 90s yesterday
Funny old week, protecting the calves.
Bit of gym. Bit of spinning.
Tuesday
6km easy around Pineda de Mar
Wednesday
Nothing / walk / injury (after walk)
Thursday
Nothing / injury
Friday
Travel / nothing / injury
Saturday
Nothing
Yep. Pretty relaxed week here exercise wise with nothing aside from the commutes. Suffering for the first time with planter fasciitis on my left foot which is only really giving me minor grief when I’m walking barefoot. Uni work has ramped up quickly and is taking a sizeable amount of my mental load.
Spin class first thing.
I went swimming again today. No tech, no plan, no idea how far I went, no strava no Garmin, it felt naughty. 
And nobody knows! Except you guys.
I forgot to disconnect Strava when I went Off Grid. I’m having trouble pulling the plug. Might go Private for a bit … or stop using Garmin altogether 
Wait, then how will people know about your double hard days (so to speak)?
She already knows.
I think that’s pretty much every swim I’ve ever done (which is why I’m crap) 
Weather was meant to be nice today but it’s absolutely pissing down. Did an easy route on Zwift
30 minute spin class first thing.
2.5k treadmill run, testing out the calf. Seems to be okay, fingers crossed.
Back more to exercising than training for now, bit of meh going on but TDZ has got me in the garage for 35-40 minutes the last 2 nights.
I had planned on an easy period although that was assuming I did the IM. So, it’ll just be a bit of whatever I fancy without forcing myself to do double days or feeling like I should do a long ride, swim or run. I will get into the gym at some point as well.
Nothing much on the horizon and anything I do will just be a bit of fun.
With a bit of luck the knee will continue to heal. The next 6-7 months is going to be a slog at work as well with several big migration projects on the go so not focussing on anything in particular will be a bonus.
Swam again yesterday, backstroke breast and fly. Had my watch on though so it wasn’t as much fun. Man, I am not swim fit.
Gym first thing, short run at lunch.
Same.
Then I felt really motivated, and was keen to train, but the body had other ideas.
Ive now had my longest time off training and exercising since 2017, currently 9 days and I cant see me doing anything til at least Monday.
Spin class first thing. That’s your lot.
If don’t count being lowered into a pool via na access chair with two physios moving your legs, 9 mths for me was the longest. 
Ouch.
I dont know what my longest continous break is but I know it will have been 2017 (edit my Strava streak goes back to July 2017, longest gap probably a month or two off training, and six months not really training.)
I need to do sone kind of session before Sunday otherwise I lose my Strava streak (which is really important 
)
9.25 years or 9 years 3 months
