Joe Friel’s book The Triathlon Training Bible stresses the fact that a successful training plan is a combination of science & art. The science is the easy part, it includes numbers, times, facts, schedules & such. The tricky part is the art, this is knowing when to make changes to the plan to suit cretin situations or circumstances.
This week I’ve come to the “art” part. I was to start my forth base 1 week this week, next week was scheduled to be a low volume rest week to recharge. Things didn’t go as planned, my right ankle started giving me problems after Sundays run, Tuesday it really started to hurt so I decided to make some adjustments. I’m treating this week as the low volume rest week & adding an additional week to my base 2 duration.
Today I went in to see the Physical Therapist to try and figure out what’s going on. Her main concern was the amount of swelling & the way my foot was collapsing to the inside when I walked. Its tough to tell if the collapse is the cause or a symptom of something else. For the rest of the week I’m going to stick to the bike & swimming to see if it gets better.
Looks like Harmony isn’t the only artist in the house…
