IM UK in 3 weeks time
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Anyone else shitting it ? ('scuse my language)
The arrival of my baby son a few weeks back has caused my training to tail off and me to fall off the wagon.
Those IM demons are getting louder every day!
The arrival of my baby son a few weeks back has caused my training to tail off and me to fall off the wagon.
Those IM demons are getting louder every day!
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Does anyone want to meet for a coffee on the Friday before??? I'm going to the swim session just to get used to it so after that would be great.
Don't worry, don't panic and I think just enjoy.
Ade
(yep, I'm bricking it too!)
As per conehead's suggestion I'm going to try and nail down a big week this week before going into taper mode.
I had built these last two weeks up in my mind as my most important, but now that they have passed me by I'm not feeling too bad about it. I've built up a reasonable fitness base up over the last year and don't see myself losing too much before race day.
Currently I have two main worries... the big hill on the bike, and injuries on the run.
I went and had a look at the bike course this weekend. Although I had hoped to do the full ride I only had time to do one lap plus some climbs of the big hill at the start... I'm pretty sure laps one and two will be fine but lap thee will probably cause people (including me) some problems.
The other worry is the run. I have done everything possible to let my stress fractured ankle recover and thanks to months of using a x-trainer and treadmill I think it is successfully healed. But now I find that I have had so little road running time that my body just isn’t used to it. At the moment if I even run 5k my knee hurts so bad that I can't run for the rest of the week! For me I’m pretty sure the biggest challenge wil be staying injury free for the whole run course!
Despite the rather downbeat tone of this post I have to say that I've loved every moment of the training for this from the night time runs in the snow storms this winter to the long summer rides. I haven’t even done the race yet and I'm plotting doing another!
Good luck all!
Looking forward ot the taper over the next 2 weeks as I'm feeling really knackered at the moment. Last long ride & run planned for this weekend. Then I suppose I'd better try to get used to getting up early and shovelling some porridge down me at ridiculously early times.
Most of my training has been evening based to date.
Yesterday I swam 4000m, nice and easy without dropping form. Got out well chuffed - and then remembered that as this is the second week of the school holidays it was this time last year I watched my (then) 5 year old daughter swim her first length front crawl(ish) and decided that I'd better learn too!
Ade