Trainings 09: 11th AUG Tue

Recapping:

Wanted to Do a Combo of hard session making use of the Long Wkend.
Plan was to do Thur, Sat and Monday hard. Mon being the last hard session before AHM.
However, all plans went haywired.

Sat:
AM: 13 x 1km.
Target Race pace or 10% faster with 1 min rest. Wanted to do 15, but end up with 13.
Timings were 3:26 - 3:45. Didnt feel that drained.
Weather was warm and waking up late didnt help.

PM: Strenght work + 5k easy
Departed for ex track captain's wedding. drank abit too much. 2 glasses of wine (red, white) and 6 glasses of beer. Decided to rehydrate a while before hitting the bed. So slpt at 130am.
Oh yeah... just before reaching home, on the way, at a carpark before my place, saw a 'carpark aunty' issuing tics at 1230am.....

Sun
AM: Wanted to do my LSD, 30k.
Woke up at 8am. Weather was great. Packed my long run essentials. Warmup abit. Jog warm up more. But felt like crap. Must have been the alcohol last night. stopped at 3-4km. Then walk and jog back. Went to play soccer with my Sec Friends, jus a short game.

PM: Swam 30laps + 10k run
Felt much better. Swim and Run was ok. Was tempted to do up to 20k, but decided to cut short it.


Mon
AM: wanted to do my last hard interval session.
After my warm up and strides. Stopped at the first set. Didn't feel that gd. Jog a while more and headed to the pool for an easy 20lap swim.

PM: 5k easy + strenght work.

Slpt real early. Long and good slp. But still felt very tired when I wake up today.

Analysis:
Last week, I went w/o a rest day. That would have taken a toil on me. My rest day was split into 2 half days which didn't really make it up. Trying to push 3 hard sessions in 5 days was too much and too near the race day. There can only be a compromise, quality vs quantit. Nearer to race day, we should focus on quality rather than the quantity.

Therefore, I am taking tuesday totally off to recover from the stupid mistakes that i made.
Wed will be my last hard session before recovery for Sunday's race.