Road to Redemption
Posted: 09 Sep 2015 13:38
er...hello.
Been a bit of a while since I poked my nose into the forum but thought I would start with my future intentions. Training is a bit stop start - I am coming to the end of a 2yr period of study to gain my Chartered Arbiter status (law) with a view to moving to Arbitration in the future. So this year training has been on the low priority side of things and I thought I would use the time to fall back in love with triathlon. I had been hating it and everything associated with it for a while ( I go through these ups and downs every now and then - some more catastrophic than others). So this year it consisted of the just keeping injury free and trying to be consistent, which I was - consistently slow. I did have an ok bike split at the Deva but can do better. However, my season ended at Ripon where I suffered from coming out of the swim and being sick a few times - can't blame the water but the ammonia from the bottom of the lake was rotten. So my season ended in July as I moved house to a new area and thats taken a good month to sort out. I had hoped to get a little bit fitter and race the Sundowner - caught a fecking cold that wiped me for two weeks.
So what now. I need to scratch an itch. Its a 5 yr itch called Ironman. I am an Ironman...but didn't really feel that I gave it everything. My aim was to finish and I did. So I'm contemplating going back to see what I can do. Trouble I can't decide to whether to do Bolton or not. What puts me off is the upredictable British weather but the race was fantastic. So over the next week or so I am looking to see which races to aim for.
So since this is a training/ blog then tonights training:
Rest.
haha.
I'll be driving back from working away from home so recover tonight then I start the Road to Redemption properly.
Ofcourse it will be interesting to read how my blog unfolds and compare what I had hoped to do against what I actually do.
Now...do we have bcttt kit in red and gold?
Been a bit of a while since I poked my nose into the forum but thought I would start with my future intentions. Training is a bit stop start - I am coming to the end of a 2yr period of study to gain my Chartered Arbiter status (law) with a view to moving to Arbitration in the future. So this year training has been on the low priority side of things and I thought I would use the time to fall back in love with triathlon. I had been hating it and everything associated with it for a while ( I go through these ups and downs every now and then - some more catastrophic than others). So this year it consisted of the just keeping injury free and trying to be consistent, which I was - consistently slow. I did have an ok bike split at the Deva but can do better. However, my season ended at Ripon where I suffered from coming out of the swim and being sick a few times - can't blame the water but the ammonia from the bottom of the lake was rotten. So my season ended in July as I moved house to a new area and thats taken a good month to sort out. I had hoped to get a little bit fitter and race the Sundowner - caught a fecking cold that wiped me for two weeks.
So what now. I need to scratch an itch. Its a 5 yr itch called Ironman. I am an Ironman...but didn't really feel that I gave it everything. My aim was to finish and I did. So I'm contemplating going back to see what I can do. Trouble I can't decide to whether to do Bolton or not. What puts me off is the upredictable British weather but the race was fantastic. So over the next week or so I am looking to see which races to aim for.
So since this is a training/ blog then tonights training:
Rest.
haha.
I'll be driving back from working away from home so recover tonight then I start the Road to Redemption properly.
Ofcourse it will be interesting to read how my blog unfolds and compare what I had hoped to do against what I actually do.
Now...do we have bcttt kit in red and gold?