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
