OK enough excuses, just get out there Paul..... but....but...but... "High Winds And Heavy Rains Lash The Bay Area" .... nope no excuses get your arse out there. Here goes, I've found a local swimming pool which is only a couple of miles from my hotel, so planning on jogging to the swimming pool and hitting the pool for an hour or so.
So I missed my early Sunday morning cycle through the cold and windy Oxfordshire countryside. I'm currently sitting in the British Airways business class lounge waiting for my flight to San Francisco. Its a shame that British Airways planes don't have tread-mills or cycle machines on them as I've go the next 11 hours to kill.....maybe I could jog up and down the aisles.
I could be usefully using this time to train and start to get my fitness back. ** Note to self google swimming pools in San Francisco.
So I'm off to change into my jogging kit for my epic 11 hour jogging trip at 30,000 feet up and down the aircraft aisles. If the captian would like to put the plane at a 15% incline that would help the training session.
Oh dear. Work has just been crazy since returning from vacation and there has been no time for training !!!!! I'm now off to San Francisco on Sunday for work and so my training schedule will be screwed. Good news is my hotel has a gym and I should be able to get a couple of jogging sessions in as well.
Crumbs this is difficult balancing work, a family as well as fitting in training sessions.
Ooops ..... my training slipped slightly whilst on vacation and I have to confess I had a couple of beers. It was a great vacation, superb weather and great location. Anyhow I'm back and ready to get fully immersed into my training.
Do you think I could do my Ironman swim wearing a snorkel, hmm OK maybe not !!!!???
Wahoo, I'm off on vacation to
This afternoon, I'm off to drop the kids off at my mothers/sisters house. Yes, yes, OK, OK, I know what you are thinking …….we are terrible parents for dumping our kids and running out on holiday for a week. I've done the guilt and got it under control into a nice box so please don't start me off again.
My kids are very grounded and sensible, (they take after their mother),
I'm sure they will have a great time with their grandmother, auntie and three nephews...... oh crumbs perhaps we are bad parents, oh crikey, that's done it.
I can’t wait to get away from this cold and miserable British weather and go running, cycling and swimming without wearing five million layers……… ooooohhh yes give me the heat and the freedom to train all day oh yes.
…….hmmmm but what if our plane crashes, the kids would be orphaned..... err ummm hadn't though of that !!!!!
Knocked out with a cold, sore throat and upset stomach!!!!
blast, blast, blast, puh.....
Blast caught a cold and sore throat. No time to stop though must keep going..... quick cross-coutry 5km today
cheerio for now.
Early into work this morning, worked through lunch, fell asleep on the train coming home. Father-inlaws 80th birthday party this evening.......no training. Did get a groovy bottle cage in the post today.
Fiddlesticks!!!!! ....... late home from work, again. Now do I eat and then go to the gym or go to the gym first and then eat? Hmmmm tricky, I really struggle with this one. I'm so eager to get to the gym or for a swim that I forget to eat. Typically I do exercise first and then end up having dinner at 10:30pm, which is really too late.
Note to self --- sort out your eating schedule and google > training, eating.
Swim: no
Cycle: no
Run: 5km treadmill
Gym: 1 hour
Frustrated today......training becomes like a drug and if I don't get a run or cycle I get grumpy.
Today I'm very grumpy. Hurumph, could not get out today as had to work through lunch in a cold, noisy server room, blast also working late tonight. Puh back to work, I guess.
swim: no
cycle: no
run: no
gym: no
Lunch at the Gym, a quick 5km on treadmill and then 30 mins on the weights. This evening I hit the pool, hmmm not in the best mental state ...... the conversation in my head whilst swimming went kind of like this.
"Come on faster catch that guy in the next lane"
"Yep your catching him ....."
"Oh pants...is this lap 7 or 9" ....
"must be 7 because I'm on the up leg"
"No hold on it could be lap 5......nah must be 7"
"I must remember Sam's soccer kit for the morning"
"wow he's fast"
"crumbs she's fast"
"hmmm maybe I'm just slow"
"bother .... is this lap 11 or 13"
"no wait a minute I'm on the down leg so must be 12"
"blast I didn't send that email to my boss"
"must remember which lap I'm on, I'll keep repeating it so I don't forget"
"12.....12.......12.......12......."
"..........................err ............"
"......10.......10......10.......10"
swim: 1 hour | forgot how many laps
cycle: No
run: 5km treadmill | 23mins | 1%
gym: weights 1 hour
One of those days!!!
Plan "A", I'm working from home today and so nice 1 hour lunchtime run.
Oh no my son is off school, he's poorly today and so lunch time run scuppered.
Plan "B" when my wife comes home, scoot off to the swimming pool this evening.
Nope, wife has a late meeting will not be back until 10.00pm
Kids need bathing, dinner needs cooking and data replication from the US to UK on production database servers has just stopped working........!!!!!!
Swim: No
Cycle: No
Run: No
Quick I've got 20 minutes to get home, changed and across to a party to pick-up my daughter. Oh crikey I've just cycled up and down hills for about 1 hour 30 minutes, come on legs faster!!!
OK quick route home and so that's main roads all the way, blast that's a shame I was enjoying myself on the quiet country roads listening to http://www.trigeekdreams.com (iron-will your laugh is infectious).
Bloody hell !!!! that was close, the roads are very greasy and I think I was pushing that corner a tad tooooo fast and nearly came off, heart rate just rocketed. Phew home at last, no time to change quick, jump into the car and pick up daughter. Oh its fun balancing training and families.
Swim: No
Cycle: 40km | very hilly | 1hr 30 mins | 6c or 42f
Run: No
Wahooo my first post. I've been training over the past couple of weeks for a half ironman. As the title says I've got 133 days left to go.
So the running and cycling are coming along OK. However my swimming is terrible, I can not do the front crawl, really I do a couple of strokes, head down and forget to breathe, yikes PANIC. I can breast-stoke very fast !!!!! OK I have a problem and not long to sort it out. Seek professional help or when in a crisis go shopping and procrastinate and so I've just bought some new swimming goggles which will solve all my problems. ..... not!
Swim: Nope not today
Cycle: None today, will do tomorrow
Run: Gentle 5km | cross country | 23mins | 3.1c or 36f
