Week 8

Training Summary

Bike       10 miles

Run        6 miles

Swim     1 mile

The last week of uni before Christmas, a housemates birthday and 8 inches of snow...not particularly conducive to high intensity training. I’ve definitely kept on track with my carbo-loading though, predominantly via ‘pint of cheapest please’. Still, I tried to fit some training in when I could.

I went for an early swim on Tuesday morning. That’s ‘university early’ (8-9am) by the way, not ‘normal life early’ (6-7am). It felt horrific. I’m going to need to get into the habit of it though as the ironman kicks off at a casual 6am....eurghh. Plenty of time for that!

Thursday’s swim session was substituted for a house Christmas meal in the fine-dining establishment that is Hooters. I was immediately caught off guard when I entered the restaurant with my mate and was asked if we’d like a ‘table for two, sir?’

I swiftly replied in my manliest (and slightly cockney come to think of it) voice.. .

“no fanks love. ..we’re here wiv our otha mates”...if anything, I think I over justified myself!

Anyway, my otherwise faultlessly cool persona was then total blown out of the water when the waitress asked us if we wanted “two jugs....

....of beer”. I was giggling like a school girl.

Back to the training. The snow came down on Thursday night and is still causing chaos pretty much everywhere by the looks of things. I can barely walk the dog without imitating a ‘John Sergeant on Ice’ but hopefully I can start tearing up the streets again soon!

Finally, I hope you all have a great Christmas (or ‘holiday’ depending on religious background)...never let it be said I don’t cater for all!

Much love

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Week 7...long time no speak

Training Summary (Week 6)

Swim     3 miles

Bike       25 miles

Run        5 miles

Training Summary (Week 7)

Swim     4 miles

Bike       20 miles

Run        15 miles

Hi again. 

Sorry I didn’t update the blog last week. As I’ve mentioned, lots of coursework happening at the moment....developing an Excel model to predict solute transport through dual phase porous media if you’re interested? No?...me neither!

So the ice is all but gone now and I managed to get through my biggest run to date this week. 15 miles and I didn’t feel too horrific afterwards either! I’ve spent what seems to be an obscene amount of time in the pool recently and I’m pretty close to fashioning a permanent goggle mark- not a great look. I’m swimming about 2.5k in an hour at the moment, so that puts my swim time at about 1hr 35 mins, which I’d be relatively pleased with to be honest. Still, it’d be nice to get it close to the 1:20 mark.

I’ve been in the gym a fair bit over the last few weeks because of the weather and I’ve started to do a few bike-to-run drills. It doesn’t seem to be giving me any trouble which is positive (now I’ve said that I’ll probably Bambi it next time and end up sprawled over a cross-trainer!).  

I still need to up my time on the bike really but as my gym doesn’t have sky sports, cycling for more than an hour is pretty soul destroying...even if there is a double header of Loose Women and Jeremy Kyle. Hopefully I can clock up the outdoor miles over Christmas.

Think that’s all for this week.

Much Love

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