A slightly harder week this time around – to coincide with many dinners, drinks, and other events. But it was a good week overall. Nearly 600TSS this week. Most importantly, I had 2 good swim sessions for the second straight week – which felt good.

Starting next week, I’m going to aim for 3 swims a week as per the plan. This will ensure good recovery as well, and better feel in the water. So it can only help.

I also did my first outdoor ride in 4 months (since Australia!) – all my training has been on the trainer. Outdoor rides in Bangalore are hard – there’s traffic, pollution, and terrible roads. And rides can only really be done very early on Sundays and on certain roads. The big goal for next year is to up the frequency of outdoor rides but to do it with groups and not by myself.

2 weeks to Goa 113. And another 5 weeks after that to Colombo. So (despite an inevitable spike in work activity in early 2019), I am aiming for a nice intense run-in to Colombo.

On to 2019.