Hi again. Not a huge amount to report today since my last post. The soreness has gone from my injury on Wednesday to my lower leg but I am not getting lulled into a false sense of security!! I haven’t run since the injury and I think its probably best to not run again until the actual event on Wednesday. Instead I have been cycling to try and improve my time. Thursday I went for a 30km cycle and pushed as hard as I could while keeping my nutrition spot on all day. Actually my nutrition has been perfect since last Saturday apart from the slip on Monday!! (read more...)

Completed a trial run for the duathlon over the correct distances today (2.7km run, 13km cycle, 2.7km run) and it went fairly well. I completed it in a time of 59 mins 2 seconds. At first I was disgusted at how bad the time was but when I sat down and worked it out, it wasn’t all that bad. I encountered a few obstacles that hopefully will not effect the actual race next Wednesday. For example: (read more...)