Overall, my plan (well, hope!) is to get at least 3 workouts in per week. This is a number that I have found is realistically sustainable. Sometimes I can manage 4 times, but I cannot count on that. The last 5 years of a trial and error approach has gotten me this far.
Anyway, as I said, I was going to be more present and actually get back to writing blogs more regularly so here I am!
I don’t have a specific plan of what I want to do each day, my workouts aren’t written in stone. I tend to fit things around what else is happening in my life and what my energy levels are like. This is an entirely different approach to how I used to run my training programs back in my 30s. Overall, I hope to get at least one swim and a couple of bike rides in per week. it doesn’t always work out like that though. 
At the end of the week, I assess my energy levels and fatigue and PTSD and then plan what I’m going to do at the weekend. this weekend I have ridden my bike on Zwift. I have also done a swim that was scheduled for tomorrow. Logistically it was easier to do it today.
This rides goal was time. In this instance it was 30 minutes. I didn’t know that I chose a route that had two sprint sections. Sometimes I ignore them sometimes I can’t resist. in this instance I ignored it the first time but didn’t the second I found overtime that a few interesting things have happened with regards to my Cycle training to begin with. I found it really hard to get the sprint power back. I thought I was going to end up being a longer slower rider as it turns out the AI summaries from Strava are telling me otherwise.
Perhaps I was just a bit too impatient. some of the splits that I’m achieving now are starting to compete closely with the ones that I achieved prior to my amputation. That in itself is quite exciting and far beyond any of my expectations. The trouble with this darned leg of mine is that it has always been unpredictable. Some days my ride is pain free, some days it isn’t. I have no control over this it seems. So it makes planning pretty difficult I end up making I up as I go along based on what the first 15-20 mins of cycling are like. This is why Zwift has been my favourite trining partner for a while now. I have not left the house and if things are not going well, I just get off and go back inside. No dramas about not having a leg I can walk very far on, etc etc etc.
On this ride, I pulled out a pretty good sprint right at the end of the 30 minutes which I was quite proud of. Other than that it was a steady undulating ride, nothing much more to report.
I’ve only just returned to the pool after almost a year off: at the moment my aim is to swim for 30 minutes, however far that takes me. Over Christmas I’ve had a bit of a break from the pool so knocking out 1200 m in 30 minutes today – I was happy with that . 
Tomorrow will be a rest day.
