Another week down, another week closer to the Half Iron Man

I know the title states the obvious, but I am already excited about the 1st of November. I have a few races before then : the Blackmores Half Marathon, the Maitland Oylmpic distance Triathlon, a club duathlon, a club triahtlon, maybe a Calga Time Trial, but I am really only focused on the Half Iron Man....I am just looking at the other races as preparation for the big race. The funny thing is, the Maitland triathlon in October is not much shorter than the Half, so not only will it be a great indicator for me, and an eye opener, but a good test, as it will be the longest triathlon I would have done. Dont get me wrong, I am excited about every race, and I really mean that, bring them all on, but having that focus is great, because I dont take these races too seriously, and actually thoroughly enjoy each one....and.....am very grateful to be able to do them.

Onto some training details this past week. I had a recovery sort of week. It did not start well, i was unable to swim on Monday at all due to all sorts of things, however Tuesday was an enjoyable 16km run in the morning, followed by the monday swim session missed. Wednesday did a great turbo trainer session in the morning, followed by a brick swim / run session at lunchtime. I did not turn my alarm on on Thursday, so only woke at 4.30am and was supposed to meet Vlad at 5am, so missed that, ran lunchtime, and then Friday did the ride I missed on Thursday morning. Saturday morning was a 2hr run with Andrew, we then did a 30min ocean swim straight afterwards. Today I got up at 4,30am (fathers day) did 2hours on the turbo trainer and then ran 40mins off the bike, so I was stuffed this afternoon!

A huuuuuuuuuuge thanks to Vlad, Jo (his wife) and 2XU for sorting me out with a great V1 wetsuit. I have never worn one before, but it was very comfy, warm, and most importantly, felt very fast! Its going to take a few sessions to get used to swimming in a wetsuit, but I must say, it really did make me feel like I was swimming pretty quick....my fear of sharks could also be a factor in that speed, but hey, it was confortable. I am looking forward to more swims with the suit on.....

So this week, even though I was not able to follow the program as much as i wanted to, I did my best to fit it in where possible, I ended up with the following :

Swim - 2.5hrs (about 6km)
Run - 5hrs (60km)
Ride - 3hrs TT + 2hrs on road

So, a recovery week still had 12.5 hours (or there abouts) of training....thats pretty decent if you think about it, and if you were to try and understand the time obsticles I had to get over this week to achieve this you would appreciate why I am pretty chuft I managed that....now that I have actually typed it out, I actually wander how the hell I did it!

Rollo has the next few weeks building pretty nicely, and the program as usual looks great. I am looking forward to having a bit more time on my hands and not stressing to fit everything in this week, its going to be difficult because my team is one down at work, so its going to be flat out for the next 2 weeks.....I still refuse to train at night (unless desperate) os really its mornings and lunchtimes only for me!