Introduction

Well, I guess some explanation is required...

In a bid to get back to pre-baby fitness I decided to enter a Half Ironman, so in went my entry for Switzerland 70.3, to be held on the 3 June 2007. So, as some of you sporting Sam's out there may be interested in my progress, I decided to set up this separate blog to log my training preparation for the big race. It will also help me, come the race, to look back at this blog and convince myself that I have done enough preparation to actually get around the course in the allotted time....

I have started some training, not very structured though, just to get back into things. And so far so good. There has been lot's of sore body parts (my butt hadn't seen a bicycle saddle for quite some time), stiff muscles and general aches and pains. But in general, so far so good.

This week sees the start of some serious training. What does this mean???....who knows, suffice to say that there will be more structure. Bronson is giving me a hand with the training plan. He is no qualified coach but having done a few halves, and a very impressive full Ironman, I've decided he is more then qualified to coach little old me. I will also be roughly gauging the quantity of my training using the Tri Newbies website (see Links). The 18 week plan of theirs will be used as a rough guide. I can't follow the plan exactly as work / kids / family just doesn't allow for that (obviously whoever wrote that training plan was a) a bloke b) single c) childless or d) married to a saint).

I am also going to tie the training in with my club training, so for example, the swim sets won't be the ones off the plan but rather just the ones the Thames Turbo coaches set up. I'll also be making some of my own common sense adjustments....like my swimming is fairly ok, but my biking and running needs lots of work, so will rather spend more time on my weaker ones. So basically, at the end of the week, I'll be happy to sacrifice some of my swim time in order to ensure I get the running and biking in. I'll also be doing allot of the biking on the Turbo trainer, UK winters are just not conducive to lots of out door biking, and it means that I can do session at night while Leo sleeps...

So here goes....wish me luck!!!!