REMEMBER back in the mists of time when I used to write a blog on my triathlon training?
Well, it's back!
It's a fair cop guv, I've been a bit distracted for the last few weeks. But I was jolted back into action over the weekend when I found out to my horror that the Llanrwst triathlon isn't on September 9 but September 2 - this Sunday! Yikes!!!
Thinking I still had two weeks to go, I'd already planned a weekend of partying when my mate Steve – who’s also doing his first tri at Llanrwst - phoned me on Saturday to tell me I had the date wrong. Cue panicking about how bad my swimming still is and the fact I still didn't have a proper road bike!
But there's nothing like finding out you've got just seven days to go to focus the mind on training. So today I've bought myself a bike and done 15 minutes of continuous front crawl - hopefully as long as I'll need to be able to go for on Sunday in the 400m swim leg.
The plan for the rest of the week, then - following the advice I was given at the weekend by a former swimming school swimming star - is to go to the pool a couple more times and keep upping my time until I know I can definitely go the distance. Swimming lessons I've been having at Eirias Park leisure centre over the last couple of weeks have been really helping me in that respect.
I'll also need to practice my bike in the mornings before work now I've got my new wheels. The running should be fine - as long as I remember to keep my shoelaces tied! Thanks, Rocky, for the advice on shoelaces by the way... only five days to go now!
