Wow it really has been a full month with no posts? I don't really know why but I've just lost my way lately and not been focused on much to do with triathlon or anything else for that matter. After Driffield I did train for a couple of weeks, and then went on holiday to Lanzarote with Anthea to celebrate her birthday so I was under strict instructions that the bikes were to stay at home!! I was very happy to see that our hotel http://www.princesayaiza.com/ had a very large pool (my guess is 35 meters) so that was great for training, I did swim training 4 times during the holiday. I also found a great run which involved a climb to the top of a volcano which had a track around the top, this was approximately a 10k run but with lots of climbing as you can see in the pics taken from the top. We hired a bike on 1 of the days we were there and Anthea and I did an 80km ride taking in some of the Ironman route. Anthea had a Giant TCR and I had a Trek. By the last day of the holiday I was starting to get stomach cramps and the day we flew home I felt quite ill. This was the start of another 10 day period of Colitis problems. I have worked out that I have probably been ill in total for at least 5 of the last 12 months. This has been the main contributing factor to my lack of drive and motivation of late. The other contributing factors have been that I got totally screwed over by the promotion board (again) due to the wan**r techies getting all the slots thanks to the ridiculous joint trade I now work in. Also the next race on my calender got cancelled which didn't help, and the following event I was planning to do (The Cleveland Steelman) I can't race as the organisers are ****** (you fill in the blanks). I emailed them over 3 weeks ago to ask if I could have someone Else's slot as he wouldn't be going. I had no reply so I emailed again this week and they replied this time saying you can't have someone Else's slot and the event is now full! great!! So whats next, well unless I get some races sorted out its the Vitruvian in September?
I do have some positives from the last 10 days, I ran 10.1 miles from Fylingdales to Whitby over the very hilly roads on the Yorkshire moors in a charity event for Help for Heroes and clocked 58 minutes. I also ran a 9.8k training run at home in 34:14. I have done a couple of club time trials on the bike too and seem to be going well in those.
The photos are me in the pool on holiday, a view from the top of the volcano I was running up, the trainers now pink due to the dust from the run up the volcano, me at the top and the bike I hired for the day.
