Good Progress

Elaine has been struggling since the London race. She unintentionally started her taper a week or so early and then extended her after race break a little longer than originally planned. This resulted in an ugly surprise when she finally started training again. However things have definitely improved over the last week.

Elaine was very happy to read in one of my recent blog posts that in the base phase, we now train by feel and only keep going if we feel good. What I omitted in that blog post was that this method only works when you train every day. But to her credit, Elaine has trained every day in the last week and the results have been significant. After struggling to run 3km a week ago, she has since easily completed two 8.5km runs. Plus on Saturday morning she did one of her biggest ever swim sessions.

Unfortunately today she was diagnosed with skin cancer and has had two biopsies on her face. The result is that she won't be able to train for a couple of days or swim at all this week. This is a shame in regards to training, but Elaine's health is a 1,000 times more important, so in the grand scheme of things it is not an issue at all.

On a personal note, I managed just over 50km of running this week which is a very good start to my base training phase. However my swim and bike still needs work.