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Saturday May 4: Mallorca Olympic Distance Triathlon (1500m swim, 40km cycle, 10km run).
Sunday May 12: Yorkshire Cycle Sportive. (80km).
Saturday May 18: Derwent Open Water ...Swim. (1500m swim).
Sunday May 26: Manchester 10km. (10km road race).
Sunday June 2: Northumberland QEII Sprint Triathlon (750m swim, 20km cycle, 5km run).
Saturday May 4: Mallorca Olympic Distance Triathlon (1500m swim, 40km cycle, 10km run).
Sunday May 12: Yorkshire Cycle Sportive. (80km).
Saturday May 18: Derwent Open Water ...Swim. (1500m swim).
Sunday May 26: Manchester 10km. (10km road race).
Sunday June 2: Northumberland QEII Sprint Triathlon (750m swim, 20km cycle, 5km run).
“OTHER STUFF” and “oh yeah” some training...
It has almost been two months since my last entry in this blog... I do say nothing much has been going on... Training has been slightly erratic... I have been desperately holding on to my planned sessions though “other stuff” has got in the way...
SKIING- What a week up in the French Alps in Morzine... Skiied my heart out... Not that good at the moment but I can handle blue runs and not to steep red runs nicely... Actually did some mogelly bits on the easy red runs... Anything more and I'm a complete mess... Did have a bit of fun skiing off piste as well as between the trees... Anyway a little seed has set in my mind... Simple... Improve!!!! A new aim in life... With this in mind I took a lesson with Xavier (French ski instructor).... He gave me a multitude of tips which I took and I improved slightly... It also gave me a new determination to get better at this caper... Roll on next year I say...
As for Xavier... Had a good old chat with him as we were going up the lifts... Oh what a life he leads!!! Ski instructor in the winter and Surf instructor on the Atlantic coast of France in the summer... I'm inspired!!! And he 's been living this way for nearly 30 years.... Somehow I've missed my vocation.....Why is the notion that a “proper job” so important???? Makes no sense... Good on you Xavier....
VIRUS- Boy did I get a beauty here... Some of you of the opposite gender will call it “Man Flu” I'll just call it the “39.3 flu”.... Crook as a dog I was... After about 3 days in bed and about 4 buckets of Lemsip I survived... Boy do I hate Lemsip now...
Now for my training... I'll break it up into the 3 disciplines... As I've said it has been very erratic...
Swimming- Can swim 2km non stop now nicely... Have chucked the schedule away and going to concentrate on technique... Going to attend novice training training sessions for this... Everything seems to go well except that my legs are dead weights... Improvement required here... A nice little challenge...
Cycling- Despite everything, going very well... Had a beaut cycle today to Kettlewell and back (about 50km) in under 2 hours feeling very comfortable...
Running- was spot on form before the “39.3”... Did 5 x1km sets about 2 weeks ago... All under 4 min and 10 sec... Target pace by the way... Ran about 10km easily last night at a gentle pace... Might just ease back into pacework next week...
Anyway it is about 5 weeks until the first event... lets hope all this training will hold me in good stead... I've been injury free which I'll take a bit of credit for through good planning... Lets hope this continues... What I must do now is to recover well from my slight health setback...
Keep happy
Vic
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