Another strange week. The first couple of days of the week were ‘off’ days – a bit of recovery from Sunday’s Olympic Tri (in which I placed 2nd – my first podium – even if it was a pedestrian field), and also some travel back from Hyderabad. And then at the end of the week, I had planned to do Nandi Epic (112km) ride, but couldn’t because I was feeling a bit under the weather.

Managed to squeeze in one swim, and got a few encouraging sessions in. One was the 18km run on Saturday, where I was able to hold 4:46/km for 14km. And the trainer sessions forced me to ride reasonably high intensity despite heavy legs.

So not a great training week, but kept it ticking over. The focus now is on my last 3-week run block towards a half marathon. And I’m about 13.5 weeks away from Colombo tri. Hence, I’ll move into a tri-specific training block with a greater emphasis on swimming and longer rides once the HM is done.

Another thing I’m going to start throwing in is running in the heat (whenever I can) so I get acclimatized at least a bit.

On to week 47.