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I’m either having a slow recovery from my cold, or I’m just being plain lazy.<\/p>\n

Getting back into it<\/h2>\n

After trying to get back into some training last week after having had a cold<\/a>, I did OK for a few days but then over the weekend fell off the rails a bit again. Thursday’s swim session\u00a0wasn’t the greatest, I noted that I felt slow and sluggish so cut the session short as it wasn’t doing me any favours. Friday’s easy 45 minute turbo trainer session was OK, but I felt a bit chesty again and didn’t bother going to circuits later in the day.<\/p>\n

Slow Recovery?<\/h2>\n

We then went for a walk on Saturday<\/a> but I decided against my usual Sunday morning bike ride and swim as I wanted another day of rest to get rid of the cold completely. I didn’t really feel like training on Monday either though so missed a turbo trainer session and a run. I was now beginning to wonder if this was a slow recovery, or if I was just being lazy now?<\/p>\n

I did get on the turbo trainer on Tuesday and tried to do the ‘Goddard<\/a>‘ session I should have done on Monday. It didn’t quite work out though as I was pretty tired 3<\/sup>\/4<\/sub> of the way through it so didn’t do the final round of high cadence form work but instead finished off with some easy, slow recovery spinning. Maybe I knew that this would be the case as I had already given myself a second chance at doing this workout, with it scheduled again for next week. Lets hope I complete it next time around.<\/p>\n

\"Goddard\"<\/a>

Goddard<\/p><\/div>\n

I had intended to do either a run or a core workout afterwards but did neither… Plain lazy maybe?<\/p>\n

MAF Tests<\/h2>\n

Wednesday morning’s session was my MAF zone track run. I did at least complete it, but once again it was slow. Here’s the results of my MAF zone runs on the track over the past few months.<\/p>\n

\"Slow<\/a>

Slow Recovery<\/p><\/div>\n

As you can see I was making good progress with improving\u00a0pace<\/a> at the same heart rate. That was until I came down with this cold when my pace went back down to the level it was at before I started doing these MAF\u00a0tests. At least this weeks was slightly faster than last weeks I suppose, so maybe I am just having a very slow recovery and things will bounce back soon.<\/p>\n

I did manage a turbo trainer session in the evening as well and completed it all, even if my average heart rate was 9 bpm higher than last time I did the same workout a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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