Another rough week with illness. Didn’t feel too good early in the week – I suspect some kind of sinus infection (headaches and pain behind the cheekbone) all week. Felt low energy. On doc’s advice, I skipped all swims this week, but managed to do all the other sessions – even if not at my best. Also threw in a short ROTB at the end.

I am not happy with the lead-in to Colombo, but I need to make the most of it and try to taper well, with a good frequency of sessions. I’m hoping that the banked fitness from the last few months will help me get a PB. Post-Colombo, I have to work on a good strategy to make a marked improvement.

Two things I need to work on with my coach are:
1. How not to fall sick everytime I build some training momentum. Over the last 8-10 months, when I get to 650+ TSS weeks for a couple of weeks, I tend to fall sick.
2. The run-specific block late in 2018 helped a lot. 5:00 is the new normal for me, and it used to be 5:30. I want to do a similar reset for my bike (36kmph instead of 27-30) and swim (1:45 instead of 2:00 /100m in the pool).

Week Colombo –  1 coming up. Focus on the swim to make up for last week, and build confidence.