Recent days

I lead a fairly good life....I write this sitting in the front of a 747-400 heading from O'Hare to London Heathrow- in First Class...not that I paid for F but because I am a loyal customer and currently it seems that pretty much regardless of ticket I get upgraded...in the last eight flights I have been upgraded on five...two of which have been transatlantic.....happy days...

The other fab bit about this is I need to adjust from US time (I have been in Chicago for four days) back to UK ASAP as I have one last push this weekend before that fun bit of LD racing - the taper!!

The past few weeks have been odd to say the least...I have been to Hong Kong, the West Coast of Scotland, Chicago and rural Surrey......all of which have not made the best build for a 70.3 but that is life....this year has just been odd, period. I have done more travel than I though possible (nearly 150k air miles) and a lot of EUROSTAR trips, no triathlons and only one competitive race (an OW 1.5km race which was not good...)...

All of this is not good practice for a race most people would consider insane (well at least all of my colleagues), thankfully I have (now) lots of experience and a good base in the tank, I.e. I did a lot of loooong bikes and runs this winter/spring and I have been working on the power, however I have had a very limited chance to swim (usually less than one swim per two weeks)...all a little concerning...For those who either follow me on Strava or look at this web page it should be fairly obvious I have put some good hours in but I am still more worried about this 70.3 than any other I have done, purely because whilst I know I could do a sub 6 on paper I am just not feeling it at the moment....add into it the issues with ICS which I have had (see the older post) and I am taking nothing for granted...

Keep praying for me I can pull the proverbial cat out of the bag :-)

Later
I.