As my alarm clock wakes me at 7am (7am!! on a Saturday - normally I'm in an alcohol induced coma until at least midday when I am dragged from my bed by an urgent need to drink some water to allow me to peel my tongue from the roof of my mouth) I give myself a very strong talking to and turf myself out of bed to make some porridge (I know it's good for you but I still haven't grown to love it - I'd much rather have bacon and eggs or eggs benedict or eggy muffins or kedgeree or .....you get the picture). Having eaten my fuel (I still can't bring myself to think of it as food) I procrastinate for enough time for my fuel to settle and then head out into the rain (yes you heard that right- the rain!) to go to the gym to see how I manage a 10km cycle. I can hear all the fitties laughing their socks off but I haven't been on a bike for about 2 years and I still haven't managed to get my road bike out of the cobwebs so I'm doing it indoors away from nasty smelly cars and more importantly out of the rain. I've found a sprint triathlon training programme template - 12 weeks from zero to hero - but I'm in the pre-programme phase, hoping to build up some ability before I start (30th April) and I noticed that the test distances are 10km for bike, 3km for running and 500m for swimming. So I'm going to find my times and see how I improve over time. I had hoped to finish my 10km and then do 10 minutes running to see how I managed the transition but as I continued cycling I re-negotiated with myself and decided on 5 minutes and then managed 1minute 23 seconds before I decided I'd done enough. Note to self - need to work on motivation..... My 10km bike time currently stands at 21minutes 43 seconds. As a side challenge I am working towards being able to do 40 full ('boy') press ups (chest to the floor) - I can do 10 at the moment (on a good day, with the wind behind me) and the rest on my knees - so that's my daily challenge. However after all my good intention I have an epic fail by heading to Thorntons in a search of left over Easter Eggs- one (small) chocolate bunny bites the dust :-D. Will have to do a bit of gardening to make up for it and see if I can manage another bike session tomorrow to make up for my planned drinking session tonight. Gonna have to keep this blog away from my trainer, Mark Durnford at http://createfit.com/ or he'll be throwing his hands up in horror.
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