So back to the training, so far so good. The first 10 weeks is the Base Phase and all the workouts are at a comfortable pace. It’s designed to: 1) acclimatise us to the type of training that will follow, 2) establish an aerobic base and 3) develop technique. We build from 6 hours training in the first week to 11 hours in the last week. Then the fun begins!!
We bought some “Ironman in Training” t-shirts from the official website but they weren’t very good value. My small fits Carsten perfectly so his medium is like a dress on me. But I’ll don it for the odd run just to make sure people don’t mistake us for marathon runners!
I still have saddle and bike set up issues so it’s back to Worcester in the new year to get them sorted.
Training doesn’t stop for Christmas we were both out this morning, I’ve combined today’s cycle and tomorrow’s run into one so I can have Christmas day off and a bit more time to open some pressies!
Hope you all have/had a lovely Christmas and Santa bought you something lovely. Happy New Year to you all, I hope 2012 brings you everything you wish for. It will be a big year for us.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------As Melanie has said the training has started, we are into week 5 and whilst it is going well and the accumulative hours aren’t too hard, having to do something everyday (sometimes two things) with only one rest day will prove tiring. But hey ho, that’s what we signed up for, and the obvious benefit will hopefully be a huge increase in fitness. I can already see that with a structured plan my fitness has improved - running the same distances I’m recording lower heart rates.
But to more important things … Melanie said yes so hurrah we are engaged!
Lots of things on next year so we’ll think and ponder about the wedding and come to some decisions later on , exciting stuff though …
Here's a picture of the proposal park....
