Yesterday was exactly 100 days to go to Ironman Austria. It’s not a lot of time to prepare coming from the state of being fairly unfit, but it might just be possible. I will have a little reality check and a small taste of things to come on the 15th June as I kick off the triathlon season with the 70.3 half ironman Wimbleball.
I’ve looked at my training diary and since the beginning of our trip I’ve run just over 1000km and swam about 40. I suppose it’s not too bad considering that it was supposed to be a training break and we’ve been traveling constantly. The good thing is that my weight is fairly stable now, after gaining some and then loosing it I’m back to 71kg as of yesterday. We will see what kind of shape I’m in once I return to the UK. It’s difficult to gauge fitness by heart rate here in the 35C temperature due to heat stress and I’ve not really done any measured training or racing.
In the last few days we’ve been staying in Bangkok and I’ve been using the gym facilities at the hotel with a nice hill session on the stationery trainer. On Saturday some of my teammates from Trisportnews were riding the Ronde de Flanders sportive in Belguim. 260km over cobbles in wind rain and snow! Hat’s off to everyone who finished or even attempted it. Must have been a hell of a tough day – I wish I was there, although I do prefer the sunshine. LOL. To join them in misery I did an extra long hill session on the trainer in the gym, imagining I was going up the Muur…
Just a short update – have to go to the gym and then a long flight back to the UK awaits.
I’ve looked at my training diary and since the beginning of our trip I’ve run just over 1000km and swam about 40. I suppose it’s not too bad considering that it was supposed to be a training break and we’ve been traveling constantly. The good thing is that my weight is fairly stable now, after gaining some and then loosing it I’m back to 71kg as of yesterday. We will see what kind of shape I’m in once I return to the UK. It’s difficult to gauge fitness by heart rate here in the 35C temperature due to heat stress and I’ve not really done any measured training or racing.
In the last few days we’ve been staying in Bangkok and I’ve been using the gym facilities at the hotel with a nice hill session on the stationery trainer. On Saturday some of my teammates from Trisportnews were riding the Ronde de Flanders sportive in Belguim. 260km over cobbles in wind rain and snow! Hat’s off to everyone who finished or even attempted it. Must have been a hell of a tough day – I wish I was there, although I do prefer the sunshine. LOL. To join them in misery I did an extra long hill session on the trainer in the gym, imagining I was going up the Muur…
Just a short update – have to go to the gym and then a long flight back to the UK awaits.
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