Get back on track

What a fantastic few weeks i've had. Olympic road races, day at the Olympic park, a week at Butlins (well we love it).

Training has gone a bit off track & i have certainly over indulged with bad food this past week. Fried breakfast everyday, a vast variety of cake & other delights on a daily basis. A tad too much alcohol on two evenings. Probably leave a weigh in for a a week or so.

Anyway, back on track from tomorrow in my preperation for the biggest event of my journey so far. Not rode a bike in over a week, so looking forward to getting out on that again.

The ECF middle distance Triathlon (Half Ironman) next Sunday.

This involves the following distances for those that dont know

• 1.9km swim
• 90km bike
• 21km run

The whole event needs to be completed within the following running clock time limit

	Swim		1 hour 10 minutes
	Bike		5 hours 30 minutes
	Run		8 hours 30 minutes

Heres the link if anyone fancies popping along to support or even take part
http://www.monsterracing.net/triathlon2012.html

So heres last weeks training, yep, i managed a feeble amount

Tuesday - 20 min swim
Wednesday - 30 min swim & 34 min run
Thursday - Walk 2 mile - Open water swim 16 min
Friday - Open water Swim 30 min
Saturday - 1 hour run
Sunday - Hangover

Open water swims were in the sea without wetsuit. Felt totally comfortable. Swam most of it front crawl with no probs. I can just switch between both strokes now without any issues. In fact, love doing front crawl now, even like swimming which i never thought i'd say.

Once Sundays event is out of the way i will be concentrating on cycling ready for The Great Barrow Challenge. I will still run & swim a couple of times a week.

No event pics for you but i've selected some photo's from our recent travels. Sorry FB friends, you will have already seen these.

The Baxters

We arrived at 9am just in time for Velodrome action

Velodrome

National Anthems Aus v Can

 

   

 

National Anthems. GB v Aus

Team GB came back from 3-0 down to draw

 

We stayed in the park to watch Bolt win the 100m final

Time to go home

 The Olympic experience has to be up there as one of the best moments in my life.

Thats it for now then, full Ely race report next weekend.

Happy training



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