The First Night Ride Beckons!!

A great days training today combining a 2 hour tempo ride in horrendous conditions followed by a 3000 metre swim and I felt strong during both sessions. 3 hours of solid training complete tomorrow is the dawn of a new phase of training.
Riding through the night, dark silent hours I will start riding at 10 pm and ride until dawn! The aim is to ride 120 miles in the dark to get aquainted with nocturnal training. It is an exciting time............Can't wait to introduce this new idea...................................

Now Its Time To Step Up!!

Last week was a low intensity recovery week with 4 rides and 2 swims that was designed to reduce the time spent training before a tough week this week. It has left me itching to hit it long and hard this week so now I am ready. Today with involve an endurance ride with efforts just to tweak the fast twitch fibres. I am going out on the bike and I never really plan how long for!! I will then hit the pool and swim until 10pm this evening. 3000 metres of nice relaxed technique aimed at slowing the swim down. The bike is another matter, as soon as I climb on the bike all I want to do is ride all day............I must hold back and be sensible? DECA, SENSIBLE, who am I trying to kid!!! Love it....

The Week Is Over.............

This week has involved 9 seperate training sessions resulting in 250 miles of riding and 10kms of swimming. My total training time has been in excess of 15 hours and has been a great success! It has laid the foundations for next week where I will again focus on Swim/Bike. With 15 weeks to go before "D Day" my plan this week is to move things forward with a 120-150 mile dedicated bike day and a 6km swim..............

Swimming Complete!!

As the weekend approaches 10kms of swimming has been completed to lay the foundations for the weeks and months ahead. The week so far has been a great success, sitting down each evening at 10pm is is great to put my feet up with a cup of coffee reflecting on each session. Cycling mileage this week will hit between 250-300 miles so it will be a complete success. Once the weekend is over I will release the statistics for some interesting reading...................training is going incredibly well.......feeling superb!!

Tough 4 Days Looming!!

Tomorrow starts 4 days of tough overload training. Free from work there will be no distractions from my primary focus. Tomorrow will see me ride 100-150 miles in the afternoon before embarking on a 2 hour 6000 metre swim in the evening. Its time to get serious.This is going to be the best week to date with nothing but pain and suffering.....don't you just love it................

The Longest Day!!

It started at 0630 in the water and it finished at 0100 hours this morning! 19 Hours and 3 training sessions later after hitting the pool and riding the roads it was indeed a great day. No fatigue and feeling strong it just gets better at the moment. On saturday I will take a break to attend the Suffolk Youth Games as a VIP as part of my Sporting Ambassador role to welcome the Olympic flame to Bury St Edmunds. Today I am back to the bike for another double journey to work.....Feeling fit, weight is down to 10st 9lb and I am now getting excited about DECA...........9 athletes and 1 aim! To smash DECA to pieces............

Heavy Overload Week Ahead!!

Last week was a great success with 3 key sessions one of each discipline to start a new phase. A steady 3km swim, a 100 mile bike and a steady 20 mile run to see how my fitness levels are currently sitting in each discipline. I am happy with the outcome!!
This week it is time to start hitting each element individually. Monday morning started with a steady 4km swim at 0630hrs. At 2pm I will ride to work and at midnight I will make the return journey so its a triple session day today! There will be no holding back now so updates will be very interesting with stats from each session! I am ready to go to war!!!