Another triathlon

Back to fat and unfittish... why not do another triathlon!

I did it!!!

I'm really pleased as I did it quicker than the practises! It was all very exciting too.

1hr 21m (and close to 20m!!)

Thanks to everyone who sponsored me too, I have yet to see if I make the £1500 target but am certainly very close. :)

Almost rest day

I just couldn't do it. I didn't want to just rest!! So I did a 330m swim first, then went to the spa and rested lots. And it was lovely.

Swim 330m in7m 45s

Overall

I have worked out that since I started training 3 months ago I have swum 6.12 miles, cycled 182.86 miles and run 68.64 miles!

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Mini cycle

Cycle 4 miles in 22min (plus 3 miles on school run - untimed!).

Last full run through

Having done my first run through in pouring rain, my second one when it was very cold, I've now completed the set by doing it in sunshine!!!

Chain fell off and goggles were being silly but still made it round.

Whole thing... 1hr 26min.

Sunday

Cycle 5miles in 25 mins.

Night run

My first run at night, by the light of the moon with a hooting owl!!

Run 1.9 miles in 21m 19m (seeing / hearing strange sounds clearly makes me run faster!!)

Today

Swim 500m in 11m56s.

Tired

Very tired post camping but did all three today as planned. Bizarrely, in exactly the same time as before! Very cold wind so the run seemed quite slow because my legs had frozen.

Swim 500m, Cycle 9.3miles, Run 1.7miles in 1hr 25min.

Greenbelt

I have had 5 days of no training!! I've been at a festival in the rain and mud and was hoping to be able to train, but a combination of lack of time and tiredness meant that it just didn't happen. It was about half a mile from the tent to the office where I was working for the festival, and I seemed to spend a large amount of time walking around the festival which was spread over quite a large site. There was also a bit of dancing to the live bands most nights!!

It's getting close... 12 days to go.

So, back to training today. E cycled with me while I ran and despite still being incredibly tired, I did the best time I've ever done!!

Run 1.9miles in 21m 26s.

Swim 500m (I think) in 10m25s!

Camping holiday

I've been on a camping holiday for the past few days with friends, hence why no posts. We got back late afternoon to do some washing and are off again tomorrow morning for a few more days camping at a festival so there'll probably be no posts while we're away then either.

The down side to being away camping is that it's meant doing training has been really hard to do. We've eaten later than we would at home and it's getting dark much earlier too. I've tried to do something, although haven't always succeeded!! It's a shame it's getting so close to the event as it means I'll only have a week of being back in 'proper' training before the actual thing.

Sat 18/8 - Run 1.13miles in 15m57s (when I had to stop because I kept nearly getting hit by cars who couldn't see me as they came round the windy roads in the dusk!!)
Sun 19/8 - Swimming in the sea! Although I didn't do a distance or 'timed' swim, I did a reasonably decent swim made particularly hard by biggish waves and strong current!
Mon 20/8 - Erm... walking to the  beach and back, and swimming in the sea!! Oh, and walking to the toilets / washing up place throughout the day... it was 1/2km each time!
Tues 21/8 - Run 1.2miles in 15m 36s (before getting stung by stinging nettles trying to avoid the traffic!)

Weds 22 / 8 - Cycle 2.53miles in 12m 14s (I'm tired and figured it was better to have done something than nothing!).

Cycling in the dark

It would appear that it's getting darker earlier, consequently the last bit of my ride tonight was in almost dark!! Oops!

Cycle 9.17miles in 41 mins.

15/8/12 The Whole Lot!

Today I did all three, around the actual route that the triathlon follows. I was utterly impressed and pleased with myself about how successful I was in doing it altogether!!! When people have asked me what time I'm going to complete the triathlon in I'd worked out that my aim was to do it in under 2 hours. Having totally thrashed this time, I appear to have set myself a rather harder target to beat!!

Swim 11m52, Cycle 48m, Run 20m - Overall time 1hr 25m!!!!

(I still seem a very long way from my sponsorship target though!)

Tired

We got back from holiday today  it I wanted to do something anyway. Having had a quick look on my phone, I decided on a cycle route which seemed shorter than my usual one. I decided that it would make more sense to go in the afternoon rather than the usual evening time as u was so tired that I'd be sleeping in the afternoon.

I was wrong about the distance!! It ended up being longer!! And I also decided that I don't want it to be sunny or windy on the actual day - both make it far too much like hard work!

Cycle 9.93 miles in 47mins.

Last beach run

Run 1.86 in 22m 40s

Swim

Swim 500m in 11m 53s

Beach

Running on the beach is also great because it's so soft. Ran the opposite way today up the beach. I went faster than yesterday so ended up going slightly less far!!

Run 1.72 miles in 20m 32s

Beach run

Lovely flat run along the beach tonight. Rather a slow one though, I think I was enjoying the view too much!!

Run 1.84 miles in 23m 27s.