November Training

I'm going to post a summary of my training on here each month and a plan for what is next. I'm always loosing my training log so when I look back on here I'll be able to see what I am doing right and what I'm doing wrong.

Swimming

I am currently swimming 4 500m sets along with a warm up and cool down at 10min per 500m pace. I am keeping the pace constant and working on technique and efficiency. Over Novemeber I have noticed it being much easier to maintain this pace and am going to continue swimming 3 times a week working on technique but now focusing on the individual areas of hand entry, catch, pull and recovery. I am not going to try and go fast but I'm hoping that naturally I will get down to 9mins for 500m as 10min pace is already starting to feel too slow.

Cycling

My cycling in November has been limited. I've been on two 50km cycles and a few turbo sessions but I havn't found a good route yet since moving to the area. My plan is to begin to build a base so that I can up the distance next year. I will set one day aside a week to go out on a long cycle of 100km very slowly on my mountain bike, road if it's sunny, and one 2hr strength turbo session. I am also going to ride to at least one swim a week.

Running

My running has been going well. I've been getting out 2 times a week and am going to continue with this. I've been doing one 5km 'sprint' and one long run of however far I fancied ranging from 18km to 24km. I'm going to take a more structured approach in December building distance each week and then dropping it back. 16km, 20km, 28km then drop to an 8km fartlek run.