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After a tough swim last night it might seem mad to have gone for a swim this morning. Feeling tired now, I think it might have been! Today I worked short sets with the paddles after a slightly slow warm-up. It was under, but rather close to, 5:00 minutes.Back to back runs are quoted as being a good way to simulate a long training session so hopefully I can take my general and localised fatigue as indicators of lots of training.

January 2016 Week 7 Session 2

It's quite simple, I was tired. For each set today I was a few seconds slower than for Week 6 Session 2. Today was back to back with a long (actually my furthest ever) session yesterday evening whereas last time I had 2 rest days in between.

In that background it was OK with the warm-up in under 5:30 and a grand average under 2:30min/100m. My 'fast' 100m were also a few seconds down on last time so my hopes of 5% improvement across 5 weeks have taken a small step backwards.

Back to Back

I've just completed a 4km road run which is nothing in itself but as it's after yesterday's long run it does feel slightly important. On Wednesdays I 'jog' to circuits after the Tuesday run but usually i don't run on consecutive days. There is an issue of needing rest days but there's the conflicting argument that long runs shouldn't make up too much of the weekly load. Sometimes these aspects seem impossible to square with each other.

I also changed the battery in my heart rate strap beforehand. I've wondered if there was an issue for a few months and bought a packet of CR2032 coin cells fro eBay but hadn't fitted a new one. I think it did help as the recording in the early part of the run was far more stable than it has been for a while.

Let's hope all OK tomorrow. I'm entering 'tiger country'...