24/08/2026
📅54 days until Ironman Portugal and another solid week in the books and I'm still feeling great! (knock on wood 😉)
🚴♀️Had 2 long rides this week, one on Tuesday: 2 hrs indoors + 3 hrs outdoors followed by a 20 min run and another one on Sunday: 1,5 hrs indoors (at race intensity) and 2,5 hrs outdoors followed by 1 hr run off the bike.
🏋♀️I added some plyometrics to my strength workouts and also included more foam rolling, stretching and mobility work
🏊♀️Pools are open after summer break, so I managed 2 x 2km swim. Slowly getting back to it. I feel really out of my swim shape and I know I need to work on it more💪
🏃🏻♀️Run feels good! (but I miss the quality, speed sessions that I wasn't doing because of the bike focus for the past 2 weeks)
🌳I took one, guilt free day off this week on Saturday, took a long walk in the forest
Highlights of the week:
✨️I managed to register for Ironman Kalmar 2027, which is great but ridiculous at the same time. Ironman races sell out within minutes after the registration opens. And the entry fee is insane!
✨️ I joined Gunhild, BSV Triatlon coach, during her swim and bike/run sessions with the club youngsters. Who knows, maybe there is a potential youth coach in me 😆👀🤔 It was definitely super inspiring and I learned a very useful trick on how to collect running cones after the running session 😉
Total training time: 18 h 23'
Bike: 258 km; 10 h 10"
Run: 48 km; 4 h
Strength: 3 h
Swim: 4000 m; 1 h 13'