Full weekend

Have done 4 workouts (2 bike, 1 run, 1 swim) this weekend. Need to mow the lawn tonight and that will probably kill me as it is a foot high after our vacation and all the rain while we were gone. Andrew did 3/4 of it before he left, but you can only go 12ft before the box is full of clippings and the mower, which is old and knackered, clogs up.

New top speed on the bike 31mph :-0

Disney was great

Back from Disneyworld. A good time was had by all. I swam in the sea twice. Quite hard in the waves. Another 3 seconds has come off the 100yds time (at the first pool workout after getting home). Overall fitness has suffered and weight has gone up but my technique is improving. No more work trips now until Burnet TriHard in Sept. Going to work on the bike while Andrew and Phoebe are in Colorado.

Swimming

Knocked about 10 seconds off my 100 yds time for freestyle. So now I'm just very slow, as opposed to an Ohio River coal barge slow :)

I also got a good workout herding kids at a swim meet in Marble Falls. Phoebe swims with the Lago Vista Tidal Waves!

Bike training

Biking terrifies me. I got up to 27 mph this morning - it felt more like 90! But then again I thought that about 17 mph back in 2005 when I first borrowed Andrew's road bike. Still I have a plan and I'm sticking to it.

A training window

A small window has opened up between foreign trips and the family vacation. So it is back on the bike and into the pool. I'd say I'm on target so far. No point overdoing it. And I worked on the sleep deprivation, endurance and functioning whilst eating/drinking unusual fare while I was away. The half ironman isn't the only part of the Birthday Challenge - let's not forget that.

Break in the Training (yet another)

I'm going to Amsterdam tomorrow until Friday for a conference. I'll do my best to do something constructive training wise and not eat/drink too much. But I hear temptations are rife. Never been before - it looks a great city, and I'm staying in the heart of it at a fancy hotel. At the very least I need to visit a coffee shop.

Official training schedule

The official half iron training schedule has been printed out. It's a 20 week program which I joined halfway through week 20 (they count down), and it is ready for modification and excuses already. Like they say ride an easy 60 mins. I am doing 10 mins at a time on the trainer in the garage to get my butt used to the very sharp saddle. I survived 49 mins of it at Danskin a couple years back so I know it can be done. But right now I am sore. Ran 2 miles to test the ankle out. So far so good.