Reach for the sky...

woody1 · 25-04-2013 10:04am

wed 24th april
back to it after sunday monday tuesday off..
swimming about 20 lengths very mixed .. started off like swimming in porridge and was really getting depressing was struggling to finish a length, but legs were still really stiff so tried not to stress too much about it, then in the middle of it i seemed to find a bit of a rhythm , ( kicked a lot less which worked to a degree but i was very unbalanced in the water so theres obviously a happy medium somewhere ) and did 4 lengths together but stopped for a minute and lost whatever mojo i had and went backwards a bit...anyway i had to get in to get things going again.. back in again on friday , conscious of time closing in , dont think theres 10 weeks til the river swim have to start making headway soon..

woody1 · 28-04-2013 11:04am

thurs 25th april turbo 1 hr.. im calling it about 20k cos it really was a slow and easy effort..just to get going on the bike again after a while off it

friday 26th swim 30 lenghts..maybe 34 lost count.. improving.. slowing down but going further .. not as boring either when lengths are being done in 2s and 4s rather than singles..

saturday 27th bike run.. 20k bike with a couple of nasty hills ..out into a headwind but obviously back with it.. bearing gone or going on back wheel didnt help.. not fast but it wasnt meant to be 20k 50 mins .. tri bar came loose mid cycle as well... run 4k 19. 40 something.. felt slower.. was tough enough going.. ive a few different tight spots in different places now it might be time to go see a physio to get loosened out..
i have a problem with back going out of line..common in tall thin people apparently .. which leads on to hip and knee problems easy fixed though just need to get in..

at one stage in this log i was going to start adding up what the cost of this for the year would be but it went out of my head, probably because there wasnt any huge expense at the time.. small ones like club membership or duathlon entry fees .. and it depresses me a bit to think about it too much, i dont have an expensive bike ( net spend 100 euro ) i dont have expensive wheels or an aero helmet, my turbo cost 40 quid.. one of my brother in laws used to sell cycling and tri gear so a lot of my stuff was free or very very cheap but even at that there are unavoidable expenses..

anyway coming up expenses wise in the next month or 2

ive 1000k put on my main pair of runners and i can feel they need replacing but theyl have to do for a while,cant even find a cheaper old model pair online,
wetsuit needed for june sometime...if lidl dont sell one between now and then it may need to be borrowed
bearing gone on bike..
club tri suit to pay for .. ( optional, )
could do with changing saddle as my current one is working on giving me a sex change operation , will have to do with adjusting or trying the wifes..
physio is probably gonna have to wait.. will make do with roller.. which was homemade from a lump of wavin pipe .. at least i saved on something

even swimming 3 times a week adds up.. 12 quid a week plus petrol in and out..
car tax and insurance due.. not tri related but doesnt help

this is not a whinge about triathlon..triathlon is as expensive as you make it yourself.. more about my own cash flow ( or non flow ) situation and bad timing..

on the plus side..kind of .. lilipoo crashed her car yesterday.. pretty much wrote it off.. but walked out of it unhurt.. no other car or person involved or hurt thank god.. so something to be thankful for .. really shouldnt be whinging.. and as a double plus, she couldnt go to work so i got out on the bike

every cloud..

woody1 · 29-04-2013 8:39pm

Sunday 28th swimming, with better half and 2 boys.. we had the pool to ourselves apart from 1 other guy.. so i got to do a bit whilst she entertained the boys.. did about 20 lengths including 1 set of 8 continuous which couldve went to 10 but the oldest gave me an excuse to stop when he swam ( paddled / floated ) across me
anyway i wouldve been happy with 5 before i went in.. 2 months after starting lessons im doing 8 lengths.. cant be unhappy with that.. still need to learn either breaststroke or tread water or some stroke to give me a breather in the water if i need it ..
20 lengths 500m
finally got as far as the doc to try to get to bottom of pins and needles thing,which has been getting progressively worse / more annoying , took bloods, be interesting to see what comes out of it..

woody1 · 01-05-2013 11:58am

jesus wept..just looking at this , hadnt realised how little i was running ( i knew i wasnt cycling much ) time to get finger out..

woody1 · 05-05-2013 10:37am

wed 1st may swim 700m.. 10 lengths ,6,4, 4 x 2.. then 5k run

2nd may ..17k bike , 3k run

3rd may 5k run

4th may swimming with kids 250m , pool packed , so couldnt do much at all, got 250m done just before it was time to go, but the most i could do together was 4 lengths , bit depressing, putting it down to tired legs, hopefully next day will be better

5th may 19k bike , 2k run.. happy with this one because i had to get up early to do it, it was windy and wet , a lot of excuses not to do it, but it got done and as usual wasnt as bad as it looked outside either.. bike speed not great... be nice to get one day round here where some part of the cycle wasnt into a headwind..

woody1 · 08-05-2013 5:06pm

6th may 10k run.. 52 mins fastest 10k training run for a while , nice to run without having cycled or swam beforehand.. a long way from 45 mins, beginning to wonder how i ever ran that.. once ballina tri is over the idea is to get back to running and try to get below the 45 for a particular 10k in late august so i need to keep the running ticking over too ..

7th may swim 900m 3 x 10 1 x 4 and 1 x 2 .. shouldve done another 4 to make the kilometre but it didnt occur to me until i was out of the pool and i wasnt getting back in, much better than the last time i was in, still not perfect , but itl do for now..

7 days in a row, break tonight, hope to get into a pool tomorrow morning. weekend at home ( meath ) this weekend so training is going to be hard to come by from friday morning til sunday evening.. might sneak one day in somewhere.. another weekend away next weekend then to liverpool, gonna have to live in the pool next week..

woody1 · 13-05-2013 5:12pm

9th may swim.. eventually.. had to be morning which meant local pool didnt work, rang ahead to waterpoint in enniscrone to see what time opened at, 10 in the morning, grand, are there lessons on..no, ask again, no definitely not and theres an early bird so its cheaper.. great..
in car at 9.30.. there at 10 to see a bus full of kids entering.. bollix, check anyway.. yeah lessons on, theres always lessons on on a thursday..
turned the air blue.. not at the lady there, not her fault but told her to make sure to pass it on to whoever was working yesterday.. half hour drive either way plus petrol..aside from that i was more pissed to be missing the swimming..
brainwave on the way home to try hotel pool, 15m bath ( its not that long since i could only just do a length of it ) but its better than nothing. did a pile of lengths ..tried breaststroke a few times to no avail, had entire pool to myself for the hour.. which made it much easier.. havent done a tap since.. hoping to get a run or bike in tonight..its feckin cold and miserable in the west today though , potentially chancing swimming in a lake tomorrow..:eek: which it seems very cold to me for but i wont be in it for awfully long.. and where were going is very shallow.. i need to test out the bouyancy in my newly acquired wetsuit.. if it lives up to the claims of the salesman i should soon be seen swimming the channel or maybe to america like the guinness ad.. to be honest if it keeps me some bit warm and i can swim 350m ish then il be happy for now..

red face dave · 13-05-2013 8:22pm

That makes twos of us on the the breaststroke. It hard to get the timing right

woody1 · 13-05-2013 9:12pm

yeah, i wont learn it in time for ballina , hoping to make do with a mish mash version of doggy paddle and head out of water freestyle for when i need to get my head out of the water to have a look or take a breather..

woody1 · 14-05-2013 10:11pm

14th may
15 min open water swim this was at about 6 o clock, im only getting the feeling back in my toes now.. but having said that it wasnt as cold as i expected it to be, grand everywhere that was covered by a wetsuit, feet cold, hands cold, worse when i had to take the suit off..
lake swim but very windy and choppy ( for me ) which at times i found ok and at times i found tough, in some ways im happy to have done it and in others its been a blow to my confidence as i thought i was further on than i actualy am..a bit like being back in the pool for the first few times, stopping a lot for small reasons, not being able to breaststroke doesnt help at all,
didnt mind the cold once swimming, didnt mind face / ears in cold water, found bouyancy ok if not over bouyant at times with the swell in the lake..
hopeful to get back in soon with a less windy day to see what thats like..

had brought bike with me with the plan to cycle home and was going with that plan until i took the wetsuit off and got froze by a shower of hailstones.. so total for today is 15 minutes which is pretty poor.. hopefully swim run tomorrow to get back on track..

red face dave · 14-05-2013 11:12pm

At least you have managed to get into the open water. Are you doing Gortnor Abbey this weekend???

woody1 · 14-05-2013 11:34pm

red face dave wrote: »

At least you have managed to get into the open water. Are you doing Gortnor Abbey this weekend???

Yeah bike and run not sure about swim after today will try to get into lake again maybe Thursday and see how that goes

woody1 · 16-05-2013 10:15am

15th may ..pool swim.. 40 something lengths.. 18 in a row and then foot cramp, if that hadnt happened i felt i couldve kept going for another while so thats good, was meant to be in the lake today but better half has a cold and is swimming on saturday so wont be going today and more than likely wont be swimming on saturday.. its a pity and i know watching some worse swimmer than me battling through and getting through it will bug me on the day i think for the moment not swimming is the sensible thing to do, if its a really nice morning and the lake is very calm things may change.. but we'll see..
thats the furthest ive swam in a pool by a long way.. my shoulder blades feel like someones driven a nail through them

woody1 · 21-05-2013 5:13pm

16th may bike 34k run 2k .. cycled out to crossmolina to look at some of the bike route for the weekend.. glad i did.. more rolling than i thought and windy.. short run after

18th may..gortnor abbey triathlon
hmmm... local to me.. 10 minutes from house and very competitor friendly, in that you could mix and match the distances from the student and normal ( sprint ) distances.. so i had thought about doing the shorter swim of 350m and then changing to the longer bike and run.. BUT .. i lost a bit of confidence when i was in the lake for the first time on the tuesday before and although i wasnt 100 percent sure what i was doing i think that effectively made the decision for me.. so i didnt even bring the wetsuit ( idiot )
got there, eilish ..better half .. was swimming with christy her brother who has down syndrome .. great swimmer but hadnt done a lake swim before and we werent sure about following round the bouys .. more than likely would be fine but just to be sure eilish swam with him..and since she was i said she could wear my chip and wed effectively be a relay team..
anyway at the race briefing it was revealed that the shorter swim was all in shallow water ..shallow enough to stand up in easily.. so i was a pit peed off then that i hadnt brought the wetsuit and taken the chance to get some o/w experience and do a full , if short , triathlon..
horrible day.. gale force winds, lashing rain all day.. but with it being in a school, there was a gym , changing rooms ,proper car parking, loads of places to shelter before it..very well run.. il be back to to it all next year
so eilish and christy swam and got round in 18 mins..with eilish breaststroking the whole way.. id say if she could have freestyled she'd be well up in the swim times ..
ran up to transition with them, got chip, took an age to get helmet, shoes etc on and got going.. out and back and the 10k out was into a horrible wind..tough tough cycle out, of course lovely coming back, flying along, until an aul one that couldnt decide which side of the road she wanted to park her car made a bit of tit of things for a few of us.. anyway took 44 minutes..which is slow but seeing that some of the clubs much faster cyclists were in the high 30s i dont feel too bad about it, especially considering i havent been on the bike a lot lately..
got out of tranistion a little quicker and got going on the run..as usual took the first kilometre to get lungs to calm down and legs to wake up, felt like a slow and easy run but chip times have it at 23 minutes which is a 2 minute pb for me..and the previous time is from a straight 5k with no cycle before so thats nice..
havent done a thing since.. was in liverpool for the weekend spent saturday evening driving east and this morning driving west, have a cold now so im probably not doing anything today or tomorrow to make sure i get rid of it and then its going to be into the last 4 odd weeks of training for ballina with a vengeance.. at this stage ive realised that its all about getting through the swim, therel be no bike or run pbs.. just get thru the race and worry about impoving for the next one..
on the plus side at least we've found a nice spot for some open water swimming at gortnor abbey pier, hope to get out 3-4 times before ballina ..

red face dave · 21-05-2013 10:36pm

Well done on the pb, hopefully next weekend goes okay for me and I will sign up for Ballina

woody1 · 24-05-2013 1:18pm

thanks dave.. soft enough pb its an age since i ran 5k..
23rd may .. finally back to it.. 5.5k run 30 mins was nice to be running without some part of me being stiff or sore or tired.. 4 days off.. still nursing a cold , hoping to swim tonight but will make a call on it later..

woody1 · 26-05-2013 1:40pm

24th may pool swim.. not great but ok given that i havent been in the pool in a week ..
25th may 8k run.. slow wet and windy..
o/w swim practice with the club.. everyone else set off to do a 750 course thats marked with bouys in the bay.. with kayak support.. i thought that would be a bit much for me so i just did some splashing and trying to get comfortable close to the pier.. in fairness someone offered to swim with me out to the first bouy about 200m out but i freaked out as soon as i knew there was nothing under my feet and turned around and left him to himself.. i probably swam as far to get back to the pier as would have taken me a lot of the way to the bouy ! just wasnt comfortable.. spent most of yesterday being annoyed with myself afterwards.. but i had spent most of before worrying about it so that doesnt help
i have to work on a lot .. most of it is nerves and comfort and trusting that the wetsuit is going to give me a lot of help staying up in the water..i think if i had some class of a breastroke it would give me some more comfort at least but i just cant crack it.. 6 weeks left so lots of time to fix it, will be going again next weekend.. oh yeah it was f*ckin freezing.. serious respect to anyone actualy racing in the past few weeks..

Oryx · 26-05-2013 1:46pm

Next time you're in open water just take a minute to lie on your back and float. You'll realise you can't sink if you tried. Youll also bob like a cork in the upright position. Trust your suit.

woody1 · 26-05-2013 5:42pm

yeah i was saying to the better half that the next time were out that wel do just that, instead of worrying about distance just bob around and see what happens when im not moving and try to get more comfortable with that..

anyway 26th may ..pool swim 750m 20 together, 4 and 6 cycled in and out 22k.. ..

woody1 · 30-05-2013 7:02pm

27th may off .. better half working shouldve put bike up on turbo but couldnt be arsed.. god knows my cycling needs the work

28th may.. braved the lengths session for the first time.. in the lane with eilish and christy , christy swims a lot and is pretty fast all things considered, eilish doesnt swim a lot any more but is still very fast.. ( well to me anyway ) and i swim like a ferry crawling out of a port.. slow as hell..
so we agreed theyd just go around me , but i still felt under pressure.. it probably made me swim a bit faster but i did less.. probably no harm though if we do a few of these it might speed me up a bit.. anyway about 20 decent lenghts 500m and did a bit of treading water again with some degree of success..

29th may bike 22k.. savage weather, had hoped to go further but time restrictions put paid to that.. cycling is suffering with emphasis on swimming , into not the worst headwind on the way out was getting it tough to get to 30 kmph coming back of course was breaking 40.. and seeing as the chances of a windless day in the west are slim, i need to work on the into the wind bit..

today..core workout trying to get a prick of a lawnmower to start...

tonight.. eilish working late.. so unlikely to get out, maybe turbo.. could set it up on the patio and watch telly through the window !!

as weather is predicted to be good we are hoping to get to lake or sea twice over the weekend..

woody1 · 03-06-2013 10:47pm

31st may 10k run.. hour deliberately slow.. tempted to take on the marathon in portumna in 2 weeks .. wanted to see how slow i could run comfortably...

2nd June lake swim 45 mins . cycle home 11k, 2k run .. wouldnt be sure of distance, call it 2 or 300 m total, mostly treading water , backstroking and trying to get comfortable in deeper water..which went well to a degree.. did a couple of long swim efforts as well just to break up the time.. water was almost not cold.. almost..

3rd june 30k cycle in the afternoon, shoulders sore from yesterdays swim so stayed out of the tri bars, swimming later so didnt go too hard

o/w sea swimming practice with tri club.. 400m at a guess.. this was billed as an introduction to open water swimming and in fairness it was done very well.. sea was bloody cold mind.. couple of short bursts to warm up, and then into a long swim out into deep water out to a kayak, which to my eye looked to be halfway to america but realistically 250-300m out.. ran out of energy a bit more than halfway out, still a bit nervous too, prob didnt help, but yesterdays swim, and 2 days gardening had my arms and shoulders in bits and i didnt have the energy for it.. hung onto a paddle board for a while but when i let go i was grand treading water.. swam back in took a few breaks and treaded a bit.. need to work on breaststroke ..hard to sight otherwise.. but the past 2 days in the lake and sea has brought me on a lot..

finding neck of wetsuit very restrictive.. borderline choking me.. wonder is there any way i could stretch it a bit.. even half an inch would make a difference..

anyway good weekends training... shagged now taking tomorrow off...

woody1 · 06-06-2013 10:23pm

6th June. 600 max lake swim. . 16k bike. 5.8k run

catweazle · 06-06-2013 11:30pm

woody1 wrote: »

finding neck of wetsuit very restrictive.. borderline choking me.. wonder is there any way i could stretch it a bit.. even half an inch would make a difference..

Rub baby oil under and around the edge of the suit - should help a lot

woody1 · 07-06-2013 10:05am

catweazle wrote: »

Rub baby oil under and around the edge of the suit - should help a lot

Thanks. Really wedged it up under armpits yesterday made a big difference. Will try the baby oil next time to make it easier to get off

woody1 · 10-06-2013 4:55pm

7th June 6k run.. hot..slow

9th June 34k bike ..slow ish bike..

4 day week , but 1 swim bike and 1 swim bike run, so prob not bad overall.. have to work on bike intensity..just dont have the gra for it at the moment to push the speed for 30k, pure junk mileage really, so maybe shorter sharper efforts for a bit,

pain developing on outside of knee.. runners have huge mileage on them ( over 1000 km ) so thats more than likely what the problem is, but il suffer them for another month as im not running long distance for this anyway

weather going back to normal, there is an o/w swim tonight but im heading for the pool as it just suits me better tonight..will try to hit the lake or sea later in the week or at the weekend..

woody1 · 14-06-2013 1:41pm

swimming here a fair bit lately.. lovely spot.. pic is obviously from last week !

red face dave · 14-06-2013 10:17pm

Where is that Woody

Killala???

Did you see the race on the 6th is not starting until 6.30 which is a pain.

woody1 · 15-06-2013 8:29am

lough conn, bout 10 minutes down the road from the lodge pub if you know where that is.. could be off there this weekend as i cant get baby sitter to suit tides in killala ..

yeah i saw that.. myself and better half were saying it would be a pain for anyone just coming for the day..i assume its to do with tides...

be interesting to see if theres any more than normal around town at that time to support it.. also get to go out straight after..which is only good for locals i know..

red face dave · 15-06-2013 11:49pm

Cant say I know that spot.

Its a shame they didn't put it on in the morning, I would say they will lose a good few entries because of the late time. It will make for another long day waiting around. I suppose there could be a good few locals around with it been the first night of the festival.

woody1 · 16-06-2013 11:32pm

10th june 750m pool swim.. 750 in one go no breaks, 5k run after

13th june 6am turbo 1 hr, 7pm 20k bike , 1k run

15th june 16k bike 30 mins.. 2k run .. bike close to flat out.. wouldve been hoping to be a bit better but a lot of my cycling lately has been junk miles so cant really expect more

16th june.. sea swim.. 1300m or thereabouts.. not quite all continuous but very close.. if the tide was higher i wouldve treaded rather than stopped and stood, but it was a low, high tide and at times the water was barely waist height .. almost harder not to stand up.. still good session for me to get some distance in.. tide meant to be a metre higher next weekend so hopefully will get out again ..

out and onto bike for 12k bike ..

funny week not as many days as i would like but again mostly double sessions.. eilish going to be working late this week and next and there has been mention of the dreaded bog.. so just going to have to take it as it comes for next few weeks.. more early mornings id imagine ..

woody1 · 20-06-2013 9:09am

17th off
18th 500 swim in pool, had kids with me so 2 x 10 and general slobbering with kids and better half had whole pool to ourselves
14.5k cycle home.. been messing about with position on bike, put on a forward seatpost i had from another bike and dropped the handlebars / tri bars as much as theyd go... seemed to have more constant speed than before ..able to hold higher for longer, can feel the difference in the leg muscles so i need to get out in this position a few more times..will probably post a picture of the position so people can give their comments ( take the piss !! ) dont have enough cycling done so i need to get all the free seconds i can.. gonna change the tyres .. considering an aero helmet as well !! ( albeit a cheap one ) which will go down well with all the slagging i do of people that have them..

did about 7k of the tri route and then bailed for home

yesterday off

today hopefully turbo and run later.. bailed on a 6am cycle earlier.. sorry now cos its lashing outside now and it wasnt earlier

woody1 · 21-06-2013 2:30pm

20th .. blender 1.20 turbo.. bailed on the last 20 mins as had enough done at that stage, and it was getting late , i can never sleep right after turbos..
forgot what a good workout this one was though,

woody1 · 23-06-2013 10:20am

22nd 750 ow ( sea ) swim
lucky to have a bouy marked 750 swim in killala bay which is just 10 mins up the road from my house.. proper high tide this week which meant no standing up for no good reason so had to swim it all apart from once i had to tread to sight the next bouy.. but happy to get that experience too
took 22 mins which im happy enough about, thought itd be closer to half hour
only did the one lap as the trial run for the triathlon is on today so didnt want to be wrecked for that.. probably wont cycle just run after swim as time is tight..swim should be a nice bit easier as its downstream but im taking nothing for granted..
5k race on today for eldest new school so will be doing that too
supposed to be aquathon on tomorrow in kilalla but better half more than likely working late might go down with the kids and watch it though...

woody1 · 23-06-2013 8:28pm

23rd june...5k race.. 21.45 big pb there but 5k pb was very soft.. anyway nice run to start 3k into the wind .. last 2k was tough, normally would have a tiny kick but hadnt a thing..

750 swim in the moy for ballina salmon run trial run.. went well, was second last out but didnt kill meself , never felt under pressure or anxious , not much flow in the river so hopefully itl be a bit faster on the day.. but happy with anyway.. didnt do anything else as legs were baked after the run earlier..

red face dave · 23-06-2013 9:15pm

Well done on the p.b

Did ye get in at the ridge pool? Was it freezing?? Finally could you stand up at the start??

woody1 · 23-06-2013 10:36pm

yeah in at the hotel, theres a bit of a shelf to stand on beside some building before you commit to swimming out into the river, very high tide in it and i could still stand up,im 6 2 and it was just up to my neck when i was standing... nah wasnt freezing, although 1 girl thought it was, it was warmer than the sea yesterday.. couldnt see a thing in it though,

red face dave · 23-06-2013 10:49pm

Yeah it was the same in Athy could see feck all. Once I have a place to stand up for a minute I should be okay just takes me a while to catch my breath when I get it in first

woody1 · 28-06-2013 9:21am

24th off
25th quick 5.6k run
26th off again
27th bog
28th was supposed to be swimming but not sure on babysitters so hopefully tomorrow, will have to do something today though..and no doubt itl be back to the bog as well..

red face dave · 28-06-2013 9:48pm

Woody any word what time the race is starting getting different. I was told 6.00 and now on the poster it seems to be saying 4.00. Any update would be good

woody1 · 28-06-2013 11:11pm

yep dave confusion reigns...
t.i. website and press release in the western and online
say 6.00 , flyer says 4.. trying to find out
will let you know as soon as i do

woody1 · 28-06-2013 11:38pm

dave id say its 4, i see all the times on liquid motion website have changed as well, ive sent an email and a text and il let you know for definite..

red face dave · 28-06-2013 11:42pm

Cheers, I suppose it all depends on the tide. 4 would be much better. Home after for a rest and then out for a couple of pints to celebrate

woody1 · 29-06-2013 8:00am

high tide is after 6 sometime.. hopefully we wont be walking down the river.. be a bit annoying after spending 4 months learning to swim.. also wont get much help from tide going out in theory anyway hope im completely wrong

woody1 · 01-07-2013 4:53pm

28th june..5-600 swim ish, did get out for that swim in the end but a bit late so got caught by the tide going out .. did 2 half loops of the 750 loop kind of , as it felt like if we went out to the furthest bouy itd be a tough swim back in.. water was too shallow in some spots to swim properly too.. anyway it was important to do something, with lilipoo working late and bog this week there has been no continuity to what im doing at all..

29th 27k cycle.. got a text to see did i want to join someone early in the morning for a spin, hamstrings were ( and still are ) awful tight and i knew itd be too fast for me but if i didnt go with him i wouldnt go on my own..
he tore off from the start..surprisingly i didnt find it too bad and was still going strong at the end when he was running out of gas.. regret it now though, legs in bits,

saturday night in galway getting hammered so nothing done sunday, probably going to leave it today as well.. legs too tight afraid il do damage..

woody1 · 03-07-2013 8:59am

tuesday 2nd july
5.6k run .. horrible run, deliberately slow slow slow, but just didnt have any want to do it, work all the way out and back, hopefully the effects of saturdays beer causing it..

Oryx · 03-07-2013 3:33pm

woody1 wrote: »

tuesday 2nd july
5.6k run .. horrible run, deliberately slow slow slow, but just didnt have any want to do it, work all the way out and back, hopefully the effects of saturdays beer causing it..

Sometimes the first run after a few days break is horrible.
Tomorrow will be better.

woody1 · 03-07-2013 3:37pm

ah yeah, wasnt going to run today but i think il do a quick half hour bike run just to banish the memory of yesterday.

woody1 · 03-07-2013 8:04pm

3rd july 13 8k bike 1k run
short bike , changed the tyres to the new superfast tyres as the 2 year old is calling them.. are they superfast.. eh dunno.. be easier to tell at the weekend.. il have to be careful with them on the roads round here..couldnt believe how flimsy they were in comparison to the gatorskins and even some other cheapo tyres i have
quick run.. just to stretch legs
so tomorrow its into the pool with the kids and wife for a quick dip, hopefully can jump in the jacuzzi and thats it til saturday then..

red face dave · 03-07-2013 8:35pm

Good stuff. Looks like we are going to have decent weather, may get the factor 50

woody1 · 03-07-2013 10:15pm

yeah its looking good thank god.. still a bit wary of taking the forecast for granted but the day before and after are promised good as well so we should be ok... have to dig out the sunblock alright..
il be hanging round transition and or registration with a blue boards running top on me ( and more than likely 2 small kids somewhere close to hand ).. easiest way of being identifiable i think.. tall thin bloke just in case theres any other boards tops.. make sure to say hi if you see me..

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