Ironman this wknd!

Now I remember how I felt last year in the week leading up to the ironman in france! The race is on sunday and for the next 6 days all I will think about is if I have done enough training, should I be doing more this week, what if this happens on the day etc and every slight strain or niggle will feel like a serious injury! Had a relatively easy wk last week and will be even more so this week, will just do a couple of easy swims, a short cycle and a couple of slow runs. Spent 6hrs on saturday sorting my bike out tho so at least that should be ok:)
On a slightly more worrying side helen (who is doing IM UK as well) has just sent me a text saying there are toxic algal blooms in the lake near bolton where we are meant to be swimming so hopefully something will get sorted with that- the marathon at the end is hard enough without dying half way through!

Stromness sprint

Just over a week now since the stromness sprint and have been waiting for the results to come out before I put a post up but they are still not around so Ill just put something down. Had a really good race and for the first time ever put the three events together solidly and on the day I dont think I could have gone any faster. Won the event in an hour and 13secs so bit gutted to not go under the hour but next time hopefully- guess the splits were about 10.30sec swim, 40min cycle and 18.30 run plus transitions. As you can see from the photo above it was a try out for the GB kit as well:) Good results for other caithness triathletes, including gemma scott (see pic!) who came 4th overall and 1st female in 1hr9, david spencer in 1hr12, brian and bruce from WTC and also graeme morgan in his comeback triathlon. Well done to orkney Tri as well for organising it.

Week 25- hard week 3

Monday:
1 HR Meduim turbo session- av 22mph/240Watts/700CAL.
1 HR Masters Swim- 12x75m w-up/ 400m s sprint/ 800m fc
Tuesday:
2 HR Run- 16 miles @ av 7:20min/miles. 6 miles fast in middle.
1 HR easy cycle- 20 miles @21mph av.
Wednesday:
1 HR Own swim - 4x (400m FC pull/100 FC kick)
3 HR Hard Turbo session. av 22mph/230W/2100 CAL.
1+ HR cross training- surfing at thurso east.
Thursday:
1HR Gym session- Easy weights and core exercises.
45min run- Easy 6 miles @7:30 min/miles.
1HR Masters Swim- 12x 75m/ 3x(2x200m) IM FC BRST. 300 easy
Friday:
Brick session
1.30 Easy Cycle- 30 miles. 20mph av.
1.30 Middle Run- 12 miles @ 7:30 min/miles.
Saturday:
4HR Cycle- 80 miles. 21mph av. Fast intervals on hills.
1HR Masters Swim - hard. 800 w-up/12x75m FC fast pull/12x50m FC fast swim/400 easy
Sunday:
45 min running -Brora 10k. 37:40 @ av 6:10 min/miles. plus w. down
1 HR easy Turbo session. av 20mph/200W/600 Cal.

Totals for week Swim = 9100m Bike = 230 miles Run = 41 miles

Totals for year Swim = 197,000m Bike = 2595 miles Run= 386 miles

Where have I been!

Realised I havent written in here for ages and so thought Id better put in a quick update of what Ive been doing. This is my hardest training time of the year so for the last 3 weeks ive been flat out either working, training eating or sleeping:)
Training is going really well at the moment and have been getting some good results both in races and in practice sessions. My time trial time has come down to 23:30 over the 10 miles and just yesterday in the Brora 10k I got my PB down to a 37min, wasnt that long ago I used to Run 45 mins for 10k! Long cycles are going well too with me averaging over 20mph and long runs are good too with me running at a consistent 7:30 min/miles.
Had some really hard weeks in the last three so going to put down what I did last week in terms of training in the next post.