I got an email today I have been accepted onto the affiliate program for Road ID which means I can put their banner onto my website. Why am I happy about this? Well I use RoadID both when training and in general life...
I have a red full size RoadID which I use when I am training because it is reflective and hopefully if I should ever need it it is pretty visible!
In my normal life I wear a RoadID slim:
Why? Well for one thing I have an allergy to penicillin and it is always good to have a tag saying that somewhere, but also I travel alone a lot - both short and long haul and should the worst happen I would like Lizze to know!
I must admit that when I looked at their web page I was a little sceptical about quality (as I had never seen one "in the flesh") and the customer service - I can safely say I now have NO issue with either.
Their quality is first rate, the materials, laser etching and finish is excellent, and their customer service is fantastic - they are fast to delver and communicate really well. I wish all products I had purchased "blind" on the Internet were as good!
So please, please, if you don't have ID which you carry when you train, go and have a look on their website, just click on the banner above - it may save your life!
Raving about RoadID apart, training is not going particularly well....
Saturday - Evie woke up early on Saturday and as it was dark and über-icy I went for the turbo - 1.5hrs and 50km of the Ireland 70.3 - 1.87W/kg happy with that.
Sunday - this was meant to be an escalating aerobic run but I was not feeling up for it so I did a core session and a short 30min/5km run instead
Today - I managed to get to the pool for a swim
300 EZ and 100 pull w/u
3x100 drills (catch ups/fists/thigh touch/lowest stroke count)
1x400 moderate
2x300 tempo
3x200 tempo+
4x100 max effort
50 EZ c/d
I timed the 100s - all of them in on 1:27 - consistently poor about 10s off my usual 100 time. Not sure why probably due to the single swim per week rather than 2 per week which is what I was doing.
Then this afternoon I went and saw the orthopaedic surgeon about my knee...hmmmmm. Basically the outcome of my MRI is....they can do nothing about it...it looks like a small area of delamination of the cartilage on the back of the patella in the area of Hoffs fat pad - unfortunately to do an arthroscopy at the moment would be more damaging than leavening it alone and would probably increas the pain beyond where it is at present. Anyway below is a nice picture showing the delamination - it is the red arrow if you are not that good at reading MRIs ;-) :
It probably is the beginnings of patella femoral OA but I am just in denial :-) I will not succumb to age just yet!!
Anyway run or bike and core tomorrow before heading off to Barcelona on Wednesday.
Later
I.
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