Got my long ride in, this morning. 3.5hrs solo. Even though a Sunday Morning, for the most part, it was eerily quiet. Although did see some club mates going out on an audax and the other Hampton Court Half was running.
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Good man. Youāve got a ParkRun to prepare for!
Everyone was in Tesco.
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BOOTHS WAS RAMMED AT 11am.
Never seen anything like it.
Maybe Christmas big shop day - but thatās it.
no-one was in the co-op
Too expensive!
Now Iām on enforced WFH, Iām looking at ways to replace my 2x15min commute and make best use of the daylight before the clocks go forward.
30min lunchtime TT maybe?
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Oundle 20 run race was still on but I pulled out. Head not in the game, and soon everythingās going to be cancelled.
Re training Alan Couzen talked about a fitness base camp. A sort of sustainable base from which you can hike up higher for each race then drop down after.
Iām cutting down the training by 30-40% as this feels like where this base is for me. Iāll sit there until things look ready to start running again. Iāll keep a decent level of fitness, but do things more unstructured. As an added benefit Iāll have more time and energy for others, and the immune system should be good and strong rather than hovering at tipping point.
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Yeah hard to know what best plan is, whether to carry on in hope some races June onwards might potentially still go ahead, or just maintain now.
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I think I am going to train with my wife at home. Yoga, Pilates, and Les Mills. Stay fit at a base level, but let the legs recover from the 5+ years of heavy training. Then, when it is time to target a race again, I can maybe build with renewed freshness.
I am glad I managed to get an early season race in this year (Pilgrim Challenge). Next event is GritFest in June. I guess that may get postponed along with everything else. If it does, I may use that weekend to do a hike.
A measly week for me.
Sundayās race was cancelled, didnāt do the planned distance, smashed the mixed grill with the family afterwards (as promised) now feel too full to swim 
Anyways, stats:
7hrs 10mins
406TSS
93CTL (+13TSB, 86ATL)
Swims: a planned lighter week. Just two swims.
63mins, 3.8km total.
Bike: again, lighter here, too. An hour turbo, easy two hour outdoor spin, 35 minute ārace effortsā turbo.
3hrs 26mins, 49km (I only count outdoor km)
Runs: Race prep mainly.
Four runs, tempo, 800m intervals, easy jog dog, 10km āraceā
2hrs 41mins 35km
Looking to get a nice meaty block in over the next few days, whilst I still can.
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I plan to do two base runs, a weekend run (trail) and lots of falling in love with the bike again, mostly Zwift.
And a shedload of DIY!
Trying to think of my races this year, Bramley was flooded. I think itās only been Winchester 10km this year.
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Go Pro livestream test seemed to work.
Video went to my Fbook timeline, so will have to accept requests from people that want to watch.
Will do a test with the chest harness later in the week
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14 hours 16 mins - 15 hours if you add weights session
1151 TSS
CTL up from 97 to 107 (-39TSB 144ATL)
3 swims - 4.2km / 6km / 3km
3 bikes - all zone 2 turbos
5 runs - one treadmill, 2 x 10+ miles to work and back, 19:13 Parkrun, 95 minute misery today
Training a bit up in the air now with the marathon postponed
Will likely still do what I had planned up to Easter (including a slow trail 25 miler when away with the students) then DIY camp over Easter, where Iāll introduce more cycling as I donāt have to worry about the marathon
15 weeks until (possibly) IM Frankfurt, so will just be moving the focus to that a few weeks earlier
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8k run this morning, slightly waterlogged route but managed to keep to 6:45 min/miles.
Right Achilles flares up again though, maybe an enforced race cancellation could be a blessing.
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Because 5 hours on a turbo is just silly
Aero for four hours too new position spot on.
All we need now is some races
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The fell race went ahead as planned this morning but they did stop on the day entries, I think there was a few DNSās as well but there didnāt seem an obvious concern and people werenāt really keeping too far apart.
It was a tough day with a strong wind on the tops and it was a lot wetter than my recce last week. I managed 2:53 which I was pleased with as I was hoping to get under 3 hours, but I need to work on my routing, I think I lost a fair bit of time by missing a few shortcuts. Although TBF I wasnāt too bothered as Iāve not done much fell training since Christmas and this was just about getting round and banking an AL towards the 3 peaks race. Itās been changed to September and will reopen entries but it will probably have to wait as I need another qualifier and itās about a week after Boston I think.
Not sure much will go ahead for a few weeks now unfortunately, I think even parkruns will stop this week, the smaller ones would probably be fine but the issue would be the likes of Bushy, and if they stop everyone would go to the smaller ones.
Jeff
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In total around 7 hours this week with the bulk being the parkrun, but it was a tough week as I did a couple of hard Wattbikeās and the Zwift race, but with the races being cancelled I was less bothered about the 2 hour bike on Friday and did the Parkrun yesterday.
Iāll see what happens in the coming weeks, Iāll swim if the pool stays open, I do a lot of training by myself anyway so Iāll stick on the Wattbike unless I get chance to get outside.
Jeff
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A rather disappointing 8hrs 18m ths week, after bailing on todayās training and cutting yesterdays short, as still feeling a bit full of cold, and its on my chest a bit, so taking it steady.
3 x bike
2 x run
3 x swim
1 x S&C
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My usual Sunday night run now. Still havenāt decided what to do though and Iām about to head out! 
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