This was a good, tough week overall – managed to hit nearly all my sessions. I missed one swim, but also moved a swim from the previous week into this one, so I still got one swim done. Two runs, in particular, felt quite hard. One was the Thursday 13km – which pushed me quite a bit. I was glad to run with company for that one. And I came within a minute of both my 5km and 10km PBs for that one. I think I should be in good shape to beat both PBs in the next month.

This was also my first 500+ TSS week since training for Sunshine Coast. So it’s been a good 3 months since I did this kind of a week. Feels good.

I also had some hard trainer rides – now that I tested a higher FTP last weekend. While I tested a 245 on the ramp test, I was advised by my coach to keep it at 235 until I adapted (otherwise it would be more than 10% jump from what I was training at). This has served me well so far – even the sweet spot rides have been enough of an effort so I can tell the difference.

I’m not happy with not getting my swims in. November is the month in which I want to make sure my swimming gets back on track slowly. I’m still in the middle of my run block, but leading into my swim camp on Dec 6th, I don’t want to be totally rusty.

My diet has been a little erratic – holidays, events and late nights are contributing factors – but it hasn’t been out of control. So I’m still on track to try and get close to 76kgs without loss in power by the end of the calendar year.

Traveling to Hyderabad next weekend, so going to do an Olympic tri on a rented bike and a pool swim. So, while it won’t be ideal ‘racing’ conditions, I intend to use the event as a good brick session, and transition practice.