Restarting OF&H

I've signed up for a half ironman - 14th September 2014.

Need to start training properly - medals are won in the winter and collected in the summer.

Run:
08:56.37 from mums to debs
06:21.23 at debs
27:22.30 from debs back to mums via craddocks, bramley way, round by greville then back into the marld.
03:03.89 stretches outside number 22.

Quite tired, right thigh abit sore.
Plenty to work on.

Brighton half marathon 16th February 2014 is my first event of the season so is my focus at the moment. My new book Be Iron Fit from my tri buddy Katherine will be my bedtime reading for the next few months.

Oh and according to mum's scales I'm 12 and a half stone - so ideally I could do with losing a couple of stone - 28lbs before the half ironman at the latest.

Liz triathlete Carter has got her focus for 2014 - let's see how she does!!!!

Snap is of me just after my run today outside mum and dad's. The other snap is from the back bedroom looking out - lovely view, made me smile as I got changed after my shower.

The start of a busy Thursday

My alarm went off at 5.25am - I snoozed for 10mins.

Cycles to Southampton common to meet my fellow run gang members of Katherine, Stuart and Tamsyn. I got a lovely pressie from Katherine from Denmark and my new power paddles for swimming. Tamsyn got a lovely new skirt that Katherine's not wearing anymore. Stuart got nothing :(

We then set off on our run. We did park run route c. Stuart and Katherine gossiping ahead of Tamsyn and I who were also gossiping away.

The run was quite tough but we did chat our way round it so I could def go quicker and of course in race conditions would def go quicker as alot less gossiping!

5k in 33:45.28

I'm happy with that.
Great start to the day :)

Boxing and fat club later. Will also take a pic of my goodies from Katherine

w/c Monday 11th Nov = start of my Half Ironman training

Monday 11/11 – Tri Club swimming

34 lengths = 850m in 22:54.61

• 200m 5:00.88
• 200m 5:32.78
• 200m 5:20.77
• 200m 5:40.42
• 50m 1:15.24

Tuesday 12/11 - Boxing with Pam

OMG – my thighs are now in agony

The key indicator for me with boxing will be seeing how my ability to do press ups increases.
At the moment I can’t really do one – let alone the 200 we “did” on Tuesday.

Wednesday 13/11 – Bit of a rest day!

I was going to do LRR training at 7pm on the common but I could barely walk so had a lovely evening catching up on my TiVo recordings. I did do 10mins on the stationary bike.

Early morning Thursday 14/11 – Run gang on the common (me, Katherine, Stuart & Tamsyn so far)

Stu’s instructions:-

3 lots of 4 x 400m (i.e. 12 in total)

Liz - 2m 12 per 400m with 2m 12 rest between efforts. Tamsyn - 1m 56 per 400m with 1m 56 rest between efforts. Katherine - 1m 49 per 400m with 1m 49 rest between efforts Stu - 1m 25 per 400m with 1m 25 rest between efforts

After each 4 you get to slowly jog 400m as extra recovery.

This is what I actually managed:-

400m  2:17.33
Rest 2:00.45
400m 2:30.96
Rest 2:35.00 (I moved my bike)
400m 2:35.67
Rest 2:00.30
400m 2:35.90
Rest 1:00.54
400m slow jog 3:08.64
400m 2:32.37
Rest 2:00.43
400m 2:33.08
Rest 1:00.57
400m 2:28.46
Then easy jog 1:57.27

Total time = 33:16.97

So plenty to work on with run gang!

Will do some cycling this evening, then rest day on Friday, tri club swimming Saturday and maybe a walk on Sunday.

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My first park run

5k in 31:05 - my first park run - Southampton. Made me realise just how much training I need to do over the next 15 weeks to get ready for the half marathon.

1st 3km in 18:33.43, next 1km in 6:43.85 then the last 1km in 5:49.84

I was pretty much spent though at the end! Great fun - cup of tea afterwards at the Hawthornes - what a fabulous cafe they have there now. Katherine got a pb - 25:05

Have decided to do at least one park run a month maybe two and then tri club swimming once or twice a month.

Absolutly chucked it down for about five mins and then a beautiful autumnal day again.

Hmmmmmmm

I had a wonderful holiday in USA - got home last week. I did though put back on 7.5lbs so am back up to 12:5 - siiiiiigh.

Need to get back into Slimmers world. Need to lose at least 21lbs before Brighton half marathon. I have thrown myself down the gauntlet. Lets see what happens.

2014 season

So far I'm doing -

Brighton half marathon Sunday 16th Feb 2014

Leatherhead sprint triathlon Sunday 1st June 2014

Eastleigh open water triathlon Sunday 29th June 2014

Weymouth half ironman Sunday 14th September 2014

I'm also hoping to do the x3 Portsmouth duathlon series - March, April and May but waiting on Gears to let me know if I can stay at her place the nights before.

Will do the club triathlon in Lymington - no date yet but this year it was first weekend in august but as I was in Denmark I couldn't do it.

Plus will prob do the Polsedon Lacey 10k and the Ashtead 10k again.

And lots of LRR races, some aquathlons and open water swims plus plenty of long cycle rides - maybe even some organised long cycle rides.

Guess I need to crack on with my winter training!

2km sea swim on Sunday 8th Sept 2013

Gosh.
What can I say? I've swum 2km. 2000m. Equivalent of 80lengths of a regular pool. Non stop!!!!!

Very choppy, very wet - as in waves crashing over me left right and centre. Awful. And sea water is so flipping salty when you end up swallowing gallons of the stuff.

I was the last person out - I think under the 75minute time limit which is amazing as the conditions were the worst ever in 25years.

So chuffed and amazed at myself and what I'm achieving each week. I'm a true believer that pretty much anyone can run a successful operation fit and healthy campaign. Afterall if I can do it I reckon anyone can :)