Through the first phase of running training building to Triple T

I'm finally though the first 6 weeks of running and things are looking good.

1.  I'm not hurt, the issue with my hamstring last fall has not returned.  I honestly think it's because I've done my best to lengthen the muscles by stretching.  

2.  I've put in the distance.  While I had some downtime because I went snowboarding in Colorado, my running has been consistent.

Weekly Milage

32.8

35.7

41.9

20.4 In Colorado

27.9 In Colorado

31.5

45.6

51.8

I will probably be nearer 46 miles this week as I took Monday off.

3.  I've been working on Cadence and Range of Motion.  I've laid off of pushing cadence up over 180 and brought it up naturally to about 176, that feels comfortable to me.  Last year at this time I was nearer 170-172 which I felt was too low.

I think that increasing my range of motion will help me with running faster this year.  My legs are not that long and it's hard to make longer steps.  Last season while running fast, my cadence was always near 185 so they will not be getting much faster.  Also last year I didn't work on stretching at all since I felt it was unimportant, hopefully going back to it will show improvement.

Swimming is going well too but I'm tired.  I only swam 4 days last week because I've been tired and I felt better on Saturday's swim because of it.  My training partner canceled on me yesterday so I bagged the workout, I feel a lot better today and may get in the pool for a short swim and then go back to my normal schedule tomorrow.

Bike riding is starting to come back up, I started riding on Zwift and it's entertaining.  I'm probably going to start riding some shorter intervals this week and I'd like to build to over 4 hours for the next few weeks.

After the first full week in January

Number one goal going into this year is to be able to train consistently.  So far that has happened.

I've had a very solid buildup in my swim.  I wanted to put more time into it and have done so without hurting myself.  Weekly yardage since I got back from Florida:

11750 yds
14300 yds
15700 yds
17950 yds
13900 yds (I went Snowboarding in Colorado for a weekend)
12100 yds (It was a good break that I needed)
19700 yds
19300 yds

Now realistically I have 12-13 weeks to work on my swim until I need to concentrate on race prep for Triple T.  There will be a few down weeks in there for camps and recovery but I want to keep working on speed and endurance in hopes to drop 1.5 to 2 minutes off of my sprint distance (750Meter) open-water time.

Next, I've had a safe build up of my run.  I originally wanted to be at a higher weekly mileage right now but swimming has taken more time and energy than I thought it would.  Because of that I'm about 2 weeks behind the original plan right now.

Weekly Mileage since Florida:
29.1 miles
32.8 miles
35.7 miles
41.9 miles
20.4 miles
27.9 miles
31.5 miles
45.6 miles

Now the plan is to keep the high weeks between 45 and 55 miles.  I've got one more week of easy then 6 weeks of faster stuff followed by 6 weeks of threshold work then 6 weeks of race pace work.  Again I'm doing the Daniels Marathon A plan which has been very successful for me in the past.

Lastly and the least important of the end of last year's training is consistency on the bike.  I've been riding 2 times a week on TougDeGiro and it's been fairly successful.  I've put the time in and now am ramping it up.  I'll be a 3-4 hours for a few weeks with some high power intervals then bump up to 5-6 hours for a few weeks afterwards.  HFP Camp is 13 weeks away and hopefully I'll be able to get some longer rides outside for 4 to 5 weeks before the Camp.

That's all of the planning I have right now.