New morning training plan

Right so I always have a habbit of planning more than I have time for and under-estimating how much energy my workouts take out of me. I seem to think every time I plan my training that I am gifted with super powers and no training load or time constraints can beat me. Then i fail miserably.

So while planning my training on the weekend I realized swimming after boxing or judo and then getting up to run in the morning was not going to work because of the little detail of me actually requiring sleep to recover!

Also I cycled for transport most of last week and found that although it doesn't make me any fitter it does wear me down. Autumn has just begun here too and I'm not looking foreward to cycling in the rain.

This is my solution - trialled it this morning:

Short run on the treadmill - around 5 km. This morning did warm up followed by 2 X 600m, 2 X 400m and 2 X 200m with 400m recovery run between each interval.

Then a short weights circuit - 6 exercises, 2 sets of each - no breaks.

Then a 20 min swim. Did 50 m freestyle, 50 m breastroke and 50 m backstroke continuously for that time.

Seems to work well because I can do the weights while keeping my heart rate up a bit. I'm warmed up by the run and stretched and cooled down by the swim. Then caught a bus (actually 2 buses) directly to uni. Will bus to Judo tonight and stretch before bed.

Hopefully this is doable all week unlike my usual programs! I can still mix workouts up by doing different weights, different types of 5 km runs and have lots of options for how to mix up the swim.