A bit of a wall

Is it four weeks or five? I can't remember and I can't be bothered consulting a calendar. I'll try to be more chronologically aware tomorrow.

The first couple of weeks of training, I was making progress pretty much daily. I was surprised that I could run at all, let alone go from 1k to a mile to 2k to 2.5k in consecutive sessions. After a rough start in the pool, I started getting somewhere pretty quickly. But in the last week, I haven't been able to increase my yardage at all. I've hit a bit of a wall.

I have been violating the 10 per cent rule, the one that says you should only increase your workout by 10 per cent (either in time or distance) from week to week. I suppose I could write it off as a recovery week, or just admit I'm writing cheques my body can't cash.

In the last three (four?) weeks before my training program proper starts, I guess I should try to maintain rather than push it. At least the base fitness level I'm starting from is worlds better than what it was four (five?) weeks ago. So break the runs up into 1k followed by 100m walking. Maybe spend one of my swim sessions a week in the training pool working on technique; I could try to switch to freestyle, but keep up the yardage with breast stroke. (The training pool's a bit of a goat rodeo, what with the seniors, physio patients and, well, novices like me, crossing chaotically, but it's worth trying.)

Then, second last weekend in May, my 12 weeks starts.