Working on a six pack!

Due to various circumstances I have not really trained properly for the last 3 weeks. I noticed on Sags's blog the photo of the Henlow 10 finish area, which I hate as it makes me look like I have a belly! As a result I have decided that I need help from the "Ab Master" or in this case the "Ab Mistress". I have recruited Anthea to help me sort out my core stability and hopefully help me get a six pack for the spring. I have been doing some core stability this week with her down the gym before my swimming training and it hurts. I didn't know what abs were! I do now. Next week should see me return to a normal training week and re-discover that thing with wheels called a bike. I am currently working on the big plan for next year. At the moment its provisionally looking like Ironman Brazil. There are a lot of "ifs and buts" at the moment though so it may not come off yet. I guess I will know in the next few weeks as entries need to be in by 5th Jan 09. The main stopper will be money as I am not sure of travel and accommodation costs yet. The other concern is getting Ironman fit in time for the event as it is very early in the year (31st May). It will be hard to get the bike miles in if the winter is a bad one, but I do have a turbo trainer now, I just don't fancy spending 5 hours on it! Running should be ok as I am doing London again (hopefully without the illness) in April and its about 5 weeks before IM so that could work out very well. We will have to wait and see.

How many bikes?

I've been sorting out some pictures off my old computer before getting rid of it and found some photos of some of my bikes. I thought I would stick them on here to show how many bikes i've had in the last 2 years, quite scary really as its 10! I only have 4 at the moment though the sponsored bike, the time trial bike, the single speed and the training bike. OK seems a bit excessive or perhaps i've not had enough, but a few of them have been second hand so I haven't spent thousands and thousands. One of my favourites was the TCR Carbon in ONCE colours, it was a great bike and I sold it just because I fancied a change after 2 years of use. I bought the white Bianchi with the money but that went in the bin after a collision with a motorbike, that was a nice one as well. Without doubt the nicest one i've ridden is the TCR Advanced that my sponsor www.hilderthorpecycles.co.uk provided, however Paul from Hilderthorpe Cycles prefers the look of the time trial machine. Not much going on at the moment hence the random blogging.