Fat Girl to Ironman

28 March 2013

Failure to plan is like planning to fail

Today started out quite well. I went to RunCamp and as there was no-one else there, I had a private session. We should have been focussing on breathing. That was OK on Tuesday and I’ve got a slight cold, so Ant asked what I wanted to work on. I wasn’t sure, so we decided to go back to some drills...

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28 March 2013

Meeting the nutritionist

I didn’t exercise yesterday as I hurt my knee at RunCamp, instead, I worked from home and tried not to move about too much. However, this morning I made myself cycle to work and tried not to eat too many bad snacks before seeing the nutritionist at 4:30pm. Results from the nutritionist were quite surprising. It turns out that my...

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26 March 2013

Eastleigh 10k and my 400m swimming time!

By Friday evening I was desperate for a break. I had a busy weekend planned with a yoga class, parkrun and Eastleigh 10k. After arriving home from work, I really didn’t feel like going out again. I just wanted to go to bed, but I had a yoga class scheduled, so I had to make myself go out. We did...

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22 March 2013

Swimming fail

‘So how did you get on in your 400m time trial?’, I can hear you asking. Sadly, the answer is that I failed. I could try to put a different spin on this, but it didn’t happen. I did some of the necessary planning (made my lunch and prepared breakfast last night) and got as far as finding a clean...

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21 March 2013

90-96 is the magic number

🙁 I had just about psyched myself up to enter Ferndown tri when my husband delivered some bad news… he is unable to accompany me as he has won a place in Bournemouth marathon, which is on the same day. I’m a little disappointed as I had hoped we could enter the event together and I had also suggested that...

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20 March 2013

Should I enter Ferndown try a tri?

Wow, my glutes hurt today! I think it must have been the hopping that we did at RunCamp yesterday. Owwwww. It aches to move. Anyway, despite the pain, I battled on this morning and managed to get myself to the pool for another morning swim session. I practised doing lengths of various strokes, and timed myself for a few of...

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19 March 2013

Wetsuit!

ABSOLUTELY GUTTED!I organised my possessions into my panniers as best I could before leaving work yesterday, so that there would be plenty of room for my new wetsuit in its box. I cycled across town to the Post Office, but when I got there the door was closed. It looked strangely abandoned, so I wondered whether it had been relocated...

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18 March 2013

So excited about this week

I have decided that I need to blog little and often to keep on top of things, and am trying to start that way today. Hopefully, this will also generate more discussion around my blog posts. Neoprene! The first challenge that I had today was whether to go to the Post Office before work. I ‘accidentally’ ordered a wetsuit on...

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17 March 2013

Swimming with the fishes…

One day, I will manage to go to a swimming lesson and not feel exhausted before I start, but today is not that day, and it won’t be next week either (Eastleigh 10k)! Fortunately, all of my training this week has paid off as the instructor and my two fellow students commented that all of my strokes were looking better....

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17 March 2013

Winchester Duathlon

I went to bed at 9pm last night and switched out the light at 10. I was conscious that I had to get up at 4:45pm to get to Winchester Duathlon on time. Unfortunately, I get so nervous that I won’t wake up on time, that I barely slept. As soon as the alarm went off, I leapt out of...

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