Perseverance Pays

What a great week. Not in the completion of events but in a landmark accomplishment for me.

A lot of the blog readers will already know about this landmark achievement through the Fatman to Ironman thread or Facebook, i would like to say thanks for all the encouragement i have received on those forums.

Training

Monday - 1hr bike ride &1hr run
Tuesday - Rest day - 2 mile bike to work and back
Wednesday - Run 42 mins. Bike 2 miles. Pool swim 1 hour broken down as follows
1 x 25m breaststroke
13 x 25m front crawl = new Pb
6 x 25m breastroke
52 x 25m front crawl = big time Pb, not sure what happened, the crawl just suddenly felt totally natural.
Thursday - Bike 1hr 10 min/Run 18 min brick session
Friday - Bike 1 hr
Saturday - Run 48 min. Pool Swim 1 hour I did the whole hour front crawl 1.1 miles. No longer will i need to tell people i cant do front crawl. I'm now actually looking forward to my next swim session.
Sunday - Bike 2.5 hrs & Run 25min brick session. Longest brick session to date.

Gas Hill Gasp

Had a great evening at Gas Hill Gasp on Friday with wife & daughter. Well done to all the competitors

Roger Slee of Tri-anglia

Spot Arleya & me

Kate Scotter of Tri-Anglia. Can you spot all 3 Baxters as well?

Mark Philo of Tri-Anglia

Random Hill Climber

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/gas_hill_gasp_1_1436658

Youngest King of the Mountain was a 7 year old lad who cycled up this beast of a hill. Amazing.

Norwich River Swim

First Norwich river took place today, I had originally planned to do this but because of my shocking swimming skills when the event was open I decided not to bother. Had i known my swimming would have come on so much i would have done it. Another event organised by Active Outdoor Sport http://www.activeoutdoorsport.co.uk/?p=2286 I'll definitely be up for it in 2013.

Well done to all those who did it, especially the 14 year old girl who won it.

http://vimeo.com/45386315

Been some inspirational kids doing sport this weekend which has been fantastic.

Recommended reading

If your struggling with front crawl like i had been try reading Total Immersion, been a life changer for me
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Total-Immersion-Revolutionary-Better-Faster/dp/0743253434

Search Total Immersion on You Tube as well to watch some great examples of relaxed fluid swimming.

Food for thought, from my limited experience

One

Woke up at 6am to do an early morning run Wednesday,  lay there for 5 minutes trying to think of excuses not to get up & do it.
Realising if i want to be an Ironman i need to stop being a wuss, get up and do the training.
So, got up & did the 42 min run, in the rain

Through the life of the fatman to ironman thread & people I have talked to about doing an Ironman, one of the common reasons for thinking we cant do an Ironman is 'i don't have time to train'. 42 mins of my training has just been done before work, i would have never got up and done that 6 months ago. It can be done, it will be done, if i can do it so can you

Two

 Just looking back at previous blogs. In the 18th March 2012 entry, i "nearly managed 25m front crawl". The amount of times i nearly said sod it, i'll just stick with breaststroke. Perseverance paid off

Time to get fit: My first Sportive
clearseaz-timetogetfit.blogspot.com


Coming up next week

Friday & Saturday off for our family annual trip to Crystal Palace for a weekend of Athletics.
Sunday i will do my final sprint triathlon. Will also be the first event i do the whole swim front crawl.


Nearly forgot, finally broke the 14 stone barrier & weighed in at 13st 11 lbs on Wednesday

Happy training :-)




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