Friday 15 February 2013

Returning Sunshine, Returning Spirit

So, for a variety of reasons my training over the winter has been pretty limited, so over the last couple of weeks I've been easing myself back in, catching a couple of the club run sessions, a ride along the canal path, an off road run and a circuit session (which *HURT*). Today, the sun shone and it was verging on being warm; the miserable weather of recent weeks melted away under the suns gentle smile and life felt good. So I got home and immediately signed myself up for 3 triathlons; Bute Sprint, Ayr Sprint & St Mary's Standard.
I've never raced at any of these locations (the St Mary's one is new but from the same location as the Durty), so looking forward to them all. Spring is in the air.

I totally burnt out after Roth last year, I just hadn't set up the mechanisms for allowing my body to recover after the beating I gave it round the course, so I plan on doing things for fun this year. Don't get me wrong, I still want to train hard and push myself on, but in reality I'm still relatively new to this training  malarky, and my body is still adapting to being treated in this fashion, but its definitely getting used to it. I was running the other day & complaining that I was so out of shape after being off the training most of the winter, until I thought about the fact that the run session I was doing would've broken me 3 years ago, rather than just leaving me a bit short of breath. My sub 40min 10k still remains a goal out there, but I want to let the next few months roll out naturally and get myself back into better form before I start targeting it. I'll take stock in a couple of months.

2013, I look forward to your challenges!

Amon Amarth - Cry of the Black Birds