
My timetable involves 7 training sessions a week, with 2 cycles, 2 runs
and 3 swims. This week I will train for a total of 7 hours. Next week the
duration will increase by 10% to 7 hours and 40 minutes, and then by another
10% in the 3rd week before dropping down 40% in the final week of
the month for recovery. If you think that sounds complicated, it’s not a patch
on some of the rigorous programmes out there. I want to train hard for this
challenge so that I can complete it strongly but I don’t want it to take over my
life entirely. Now, if you’ll excuse me I need to cycle up and down the stairs 300 times before bed.
The focus that training for the triathlon has given me
is great and a much needed distraction at this time. People tell me to ‘look
after myself’ and that is what I am trying to do, by way of a brutal and
punishing exercise diary. I can certainly feel an improvement in my fitness
level and my swimming especially is getting faster. Watching technique videos
on Youtube and then practicing what I have seen in the pool is a great help.
Who said I was obsessed? Feel the water, keep the elbows high, and don’t swim
up someone’s backside.
London Field’s Lido is a fantastic facility to have
practically on my doorstep but it does get very busy on sunny mornings. And now
I will air a couple of gripes: why do people not realise they are in the wrong
lane when they are being consistently overtaken and lapped? And why do people
treat the end of the pool, the space where a swimmer needs to turn at the end
of a length, as social club to catch up with their mates? Both behaviours are
incorrect and for both a suitable punishment would be to snatch them up with a
giant fairground claw and deposit them in the park, soggy and confused. The
appropriate equipment not being available however, I take the only other
suitable action; to silently fume. How English. I will try to update this blog
every week up to the triathlon and post my results at the end of September so
please do check back. Coming soon - trying on wetsuits. Thanks for reading.
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