Www. Not the World Wide Web.....

I've now competed four weeks of my ironman training plan....wow only 6 months to go...I've not posted for the last couple of weeks as partly because I didn't want to get into a regular expectation of posting weekly and mainly because I've not had much free time!

It's been a really interesting couple of weeks, I've been spending more time with Tony Blackburn in the garage but not with many other people! Sports people have often talked about how lonely the life of an endurance athlete can be and I've started to notice  this last couple of weeks. Coming into the plan I had been injured and not fit enough to run with my usual run group and I've been working hard to stick to the triathlon training plan and nobody in my usual local running or tri circles are following a similar plan....so it's been just me and the plan. I've enjoyed some time with myself but keeping banging out the base miles with a low heart rate has felt hard whilst reading everybody's else's posts about personal bests and what great fun they've been having on this run or that run.

I've had my Ted with me on the easy runs and one particular memory and the first W is wobbly legs, just me and Ted doing a run off the bike at 6 am round the resers where I live with the wobbly bike legs in the dark....there was one other person out with a dog...who I think may have thought I was on my home from a very good Tuesday night out on the ale!! For those that don't know Ted...he's every bodies favourite border terrier.

The next W is for washing....I seem to be a one woman laundry. With 9 sessions a week I'm going through some kit...keeping on top of keeping it all clean is a challenge, never mind trying to locate which bag it's in,have I got the swim bag in the boot or my cycling shoes in the office....whilst we're on about work that's been tough, busy and I've noticed how important it is to get my sessions done in the morning where possible as Ive been leaving late and not having much energy for the evening sessions after a full day at the coal face.

The final W is to my new nick name that I've allocated myself "Wincey" I've become more obsessed and better at forecasting than Wincey Willis the old TVAM weather girl....I watch that weather looking for the slightest bit of a gap in the rain and wind to get out on my bike.....I think I need some "coaching" from Micheal Fish as yesterday I ended up out in that horrendous storm..

Until next time

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Me and Tony Blackburn........

Well, I've done my first week of training, which included the longest swim set I've ever done....I needed to go home for a sleep after it..it included 2x8x50 m drills and 12x100m with 20 second recoveries. I mainly learnt that I can't count this week....I definitely need to find a system for keeping track of how many reps I've done.....suggestions will be very welcome. I once listened to an episode of the running podcast "Marathon Talk" where Emmerdale actor Tony Audenshaw came up with a novel system of counting hill reps by dividing the two sticks of a twix bar into 3 pieces and first moving them all to the top of the hill then eating them on each following rep...allowing him to count 12 hill reps.....it's  a bit warm in the pool for twix bars...but I like the idea of a treat after each rep...maybe mints...but they don't have the same appeal as chocolate!

New Years Eve brought Bramstones fell race and whilst setting out the route and moving to and from my marshalling spot and taking selfies in my wolf costume, confirmation that my foot injury was more than on the way to being recovered...yey! I've had some great treatments from friends at Global Therapies and #intelligentrecovery is something that I will be ensuring I devote sufficient time to over the next few months.... I'm writing this blog in bed at 19:33....starting as I mean to go on....

The stormy weather has meant that a few of my bike sessions have been on the turbo this week....I have managed to clear a large enough space in the garage for the turbo, which is next to the full size wicker replica of a Harley Davidson, we all have those  in our garages right?! New Year's Day was probably the toughest day in the garage......I was a little worse for wear...having spent the previous evening at Harvey Leonard's which is the local wine and beer tasting establishment.....I was and will stick to the plan...it was a fast spin session followed by a quick but short run. I am still in the process of arranging the downloads of my sufferfest videos so had to make do with radio two for company.....Tony Blackburn was on.....Tony Blackburn and hits that were never hits in England! The music wasn't too bad but the chatter was not to my liking....me,Tony Blackburn in a packed garage with a hangover.......but no pain no gain eh?