Triathlon cancelled

Unfortunately got an email today saying that Sunday's triathlon has been cancelled due to some health and safety reason.

Bit of a pain, but not much I can do about it.

Have had a look at what events are left this season and will now be doing the Warwickshire triathlon in October instead.

ready to go

With 4 days to go before my triathlon debut I thought I should probably go swimming.
So last night nipped down to the local pool and covered 24 lengths (c. 800m).
I was quite suprised to manage that much as I had not been swimming since March last year.
On Sunday I only need to cover 400m and with it being a 25m pool I can gain more of an advantage from pushing off the walls at the end of each length.

I am really looking forward to Sunday - I know I can cover all 3 distances and the weather is looking good. Is going to be insteresting to see how the body feels after doing the three disciplines back to back.

I have no real targets for Sunday apart from to complete and enjoy it - might as well take the guaranteed PB and then look to improve next year.

Planning on taking it fairly easy over the next couple of days with just some easy gentle training to keep things ticking over. Got a bit of transition practice planned for Saturday then the event on Sunday followed by BBQ and beer I think.

just ticking over

right, time for another update.

i have been continuing with the running and cycling training although the less said about swim training the better! Unfortunately due to my knee all the training needs to be done at a low intensity otherwise the knee seizes up. It is all getting a little frustrating, still hopefully I will find out what is going on on 8th September and at least I can still do some training in the meantime.

Last weekend I did my first 'brick' session as practice for the upcoming triathlon. The bike was fine but what a difference running off the bike compared to just going out for a straight run. I'm really glad I tested this out prior to the event.

So a little over a week out from 'race' day and I think its going ok. I can easily cover the run and bike distances (if slowly) but have yet to go swimming - oops! Still it is only 400m so should not be too much of an issue - but really must go for a swim prior to the event.

As I can't actually treat the event as a race I have decided to set no targets other than to complete the event and enjoy myself.

I'm waiting to see what the specialist says in September before putting the final touches to next years events - hopefully the news will be good.

Right, what next?

Had a busy time since reaching Lands End.

The ankle damage I inflicted falling off my bike on Day 3 appeared to be more severe than I realised and resulted in 3 weeks off training before it reduced back to its normal size.

During this time I had a think about what I wanted to do next and entered the Concorde Triathlon which is on the 30th August. The distances are short, 400m swim, 20km bike and 5 km run and I am just looking to have some fun and complete it. Run training has been going well despite an awkward knee, cycling is not a problem and swimming well it is only 16 lengths, it may not be fast or pretty but I should manage fine.

So training has been on the light but varied side over the last month which has been nice.

Starting to have a think about what I may want to do next year. Having used up my support quota this year, it looks like next year will have to be one day or weekend events. The next issue is which events or even which sport or perhaps multi sport is the way to go? Home or Abroad? It is quite amazing the huge variety of events available from road sportives, mountain bike events, triathlons, adventure races, training camps - the list is nearly endless. Still I am looking forward to perusing the options and making my mind up.

So for now, it is full speed ahead to the triathlon at the end of the month and then off on holiday in September.