From my previous posts my biking is going great! Really seeing improvements and feeling good, unfortunately running has gone quite so well!
I’ve missed quite a few of my long runs over the past few months and it’s really taken its toll!
Biking has been awesome and really seeing big improvements with that, and I feel it’s all down to the aerobic conditioning the long bike has given me. It’s weird, but it just feels like after I’ve been on the bike for 2 hours, all the other sessions just seem easier!
Now the running has been different! I haven’t been seeing the improvements I’ve been seeing with the biking. And I really do think it’s down to so many of them missed long runs. If I can’t do the long run, how do I suspect that I can do the other shorter, but harder sessions!
So going into this next week, the goals are simple! Keep doing what I’m doing with biking. And make sure I do the long run! With any luck my 2 races I had planned in April have been moved to August. So 2 months solid training and I might have a race to go to. That’s 8 long runs and 8 long bikes. If I do those two sessions each week it should make all the other sessions click into place and I can continue the improvements. So that’s what I’ll do!
– Mike Catton
Mike is training for some triathlons and half Ironman in 2020. Check in next Monday for his next article about his training journey.
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