Tuesday: Rest
Wednesday: Cycle – 40min with 3x5min intervals, stopped early due to rain
Thursday: Swim – 50min, practiced sighting and drilled high elbow catch
Friday: Run – 7.2km in 33:58 (4:43/km) Charity run (Operation Smile Run) organised by school. 1 round - $1 for cleft lip patient. Max rounds in 36 minutes.
Saturday: Rest (practiced transition)
Sunday: Singapore Sprint Series Race
This week was much lower in volume and intensity to taper for the race. Original plan was to run around 6.4km in 36 minutes for the charity run, but I really wanted to raise money for the patients…actually it was more like my ego couldn’t take it going so slowly and getting passed by so many people, so I ran slightly harder. I doubt it actually affected my race on Sunday, so that was a good thing.
The race went well in the sense that I got 2nd in my Age Group, but bad in the sense that my run totally fell apart. Based on this race, my focus in the coming weeks would be on my run. Higher mileage, slightly higher intensity. I will probably go for the MR25 5k TT in June to see where my run fitness is then. I will try to remain my cycling intensity and probably put more structure in my rides rather than just to clock the mileage. Thinking of adding a 20k TT at the Fernvale loop every 2nd Sat/Sun of the month.
As for swimming…I haven’t seen much improvement in my times despite the trainings. It may be a chicken and egg thing: I swim less because I don’t see the improvements, but I don’t see the improvements because I swim too little. But even if I up my swim and my timings drop, I’m quite certain if I spend that time on running I will see more gains. Hopefully I am right about that!
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