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About Me
Hi, I'm a primary school teacher living in West Yorkshire, I've got two lovely lively children and a husband who conspire to keep me pretty busy. For no reason that was apparent at the time I decided to take part in my first triathlon a few years ago when I was in my late twenties.
I entered the Rother Valley Sprint Triathlon without any training. I'd never swum in open water, I hadn't ridden a bike in 10 years and I'd only ever run on a treadmill. Waiting to go into the lake, the only competitor without a wetsuit, I was more nervous than at any time since my wedding. I was last but one out of the water and dead last by the time I returned to transition on the bike that I'd borrowed just the day before. I fell even further back during the run walk as I struggled to complete the race.
Off it
I have been training, it's just been very busy and there hasn't been time left to talk about it as well as doing it. Today, however, not so much. I'm off work feeling sorry for myself and have spent the day glued to the sofa. Hopefully it'll sort me out and I'll be raring to go again tomorrow. Sounds like a good plan.
Read More »Brick
Today I managed to get my training done despite minor levels of chaos. I have been up since half three this morning as Ryan was prodigiously sick all over his bedroom - lovely. I spent two hours sorting that out and figured I may as well just get on with my day, and the several extra loads of washing engendered by the aforementioned event - yuk! So it was with some pleasure that I climbed onto my training bike, a welcome respite from the beginning of the day.
Read More »Shuffling
It's a funny thing, but when I make out a training schedule, I regularly think that I've put the sessions in the only places they will really fit in the week. Then, when it comes to it and things don't quite go to plan, I find I can shuffle things around all over the place. This week has been a lot like that, with a fair amount of shuffling and re-jigging to get things to fit. However, somehow or another I have succeeded in doing so. Family stuff, work stuff, general home stuff and the training have somehow all been shoehorned into the available waking hours!
Read More »Sparkly Mornings
It has been really, really cold the last few mornings. You will probably think I'm nuts, but I think it makes it lovely to be out there running, especially early when it's still quiet. It's been beautiful, both yesterday and today. Very cold, very crisp and decidedly sparkly! Either a full on white frost that sparkles wherever the light catches it, or a dusting over the darker patches that has it's own sparkles that seem to dance and change as you move by and change the shadows.
Read More »Busy Weekend
I'm glad that I managed to get a bit of a rest before the weekend began. It has been rather manic, I had a vast amount of work to do, mountains of washing and quite a bit of training to fit in too. Mind you, I've about done now and the curry's on order, so it ends well!
Anyway, going back a bit. I didn't do a great deal on Thursday, mainly due to an afternoon meeting. However, I did manage to get four miles of running in before work. So, at least I'd done something.
Read More »Bike Training
The last couple of days have been very heavy on the biking, well, on the indoor trainer. Today, should have been a longish session, but yesterday was too. Ryan's not been very well and has been off school yesterday and sent home from school today. So this necessitated a shuffle of the schedule so that I could still train. Yesterday morning I did 50 minutes on the bike before work. I had been planning to run in the afternoon, but took Ryan to the nurse instead, and so returned to the bike later in the day once all of that was sorted out.
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