Week IM – 19: The Short Week

It was a 5 day week this week as I’m heading off to Åre in Sweden for a week later today.

I decided not to take a rest week in the last week of February as was in the plan, because I knew these two weeks would allow for a lot less training. I did notice the difference in the first two weeks in March. I was getting the same distances, but not as well. I’ve been doing a 1000m Time Trial in the pool towards the end of each rest week, each month to keep track of progress. In the February TT, which I did just in a normal week, I swam it in 19:43 which was more than a minute slower than January (18:35). That’s a good vindication for the taper before a race (doing a lot less in the few days before a race so the body has time to overcompensate for all the training).

I’ll be skiing and climbing next week so hopefully that’ll be a good chance to let the main triathlon muscles recover and build some others that may play a part.