August 5: 11 weeks to Goa | Weight: 80 kgs | CTL: 63

Another long work week (2x 10pm dinners and 3 nights of 6-hours sleep) and a sick kid, along with appointments at the passport office! Nothing dramatic, but just enough to put me off my game. Missed a swim on Tue and a run on Thu. The positives: my longest trainer ride in a long while – 2 hours at 200W average – on Saturday. Followed by a Sunday long run of HM distance, where I felt like my legs were dead from the start. That I managed to stick it out to complete the run is what I can take away from that one.

If watts/kg is the metric to go by, then I am hoping that the watts are creeping up (managed a 228W 20-min effort in the midst of a 2-hour long session). Nothing to write home about, but a slow creep upwards. I’ll take that.

10 weeks at the end of this training week. Need to make the next 8 of them count (before a gradual taper). Time for an FTP test this week or next – for some confidence-building?