Turnover

I am well and truly into tick over mode now. It has been hard to move the focus from time trialing bike training to swimming and run training. I am really getting into this run cadence thing now and I am eager to test it out in the Honington 10k tomorrow. I won’t be racing flat out as I want to keep the Achilles healthy but I will be shooting for consistent 90 foot strikes per minute at around 6:40 miling. I may even get really high tech and wear a heart rate monitor! Looking forward to catching up with some tri buddies too.

I am swimming regularly now too and it doesn’t feel too bad – just slow! I am focusing on bilateral breathing at the moment and not too worried about speed. I have always been able to bilateral breath but I feel that I need more oxygen after 100m. Today I set my timer at 40 sec and did continuous 25m bilateral on 40 sec for 30 mins. This was nice and relaxed. I will aim to gradually bring the recovery times down over the next few months until bilateral breathing can be maintained.