Somebody told me this week that they were enjoying reading my accounts of Ironman training. I was very flattered. Thanks! Then they started to elaborate. They said its ‘interesting reading but I’m failing to stress one significant fundamental of Ironman… Ironman is not easy!’ Fair point Amanda. You are 100% correct – Ironman is a high endurance event that pushes the limits of competitors.
Rather than me trying to describe the ins and outs of Ironman its probably best if I let you guys check it out for yourselves (I’ve been living this wacky life for months now so I’m finding it difficult to step back from it)
The wikipedia definition of Ironman opens up a fountain of knowledge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironman_Triathlon
Monday – First swim in a week. Half hour steady pace. Just getting back into it after a week out of the water.
Tuesday – Another visit to the Physio today.
Later that evening I lined up another go in the resistance pool. This was a watershed of a night. And this time I was prepared. My intention was to do a solid hour. I needed this. My confidence took a turn on my last visit. I’m delighted to say I got the hour in (non stop – sans wetsuit). That was the biggest buzz I’ve got out of training in a long time!! Psychologically I’m back on track. I now know I can do it. That’s important.
Thursday – Rejoined my swim group this morning. It was a buzz to do the 100’s again rather than a long trawl. Well, not quite. To avoid going into complete withdrawl… I did do a half hour afterwards of lengths. One hour swimming.
Later that night I did an hour and a half on the bike Turbo trainer. Boring!
Saturday – A proper long cycle has been blatantly missing from my training schedule. It was time to rectify this. Thankfully the Gods were smiling on us today. The day turned into a scorcher (for September that is). Mind you we set off at 7am so we had frost to deal with first. It was chilly! We set a course for the Wicklow mountains. The higher we cycled the colder it became. Scant reward for ascending some steep hills. Eventually the sun broke through, we thawed out and life was good. Thanks Noel for your company. We did 6hours 20mins cycling.
Full marks to those of you who noticed there is still a lack of running on my training plan. I’m still on the physio table. My calf is getting better, but not as quickly as I’d like. I may need to continue getting physio right up to the event on Friday 26th. My legs are knackered. The next few weeks will be critical. If I don’t get the miles in – I will face a tougher test on the treadmill than maybe I’d anticipated. Fingers crossed!!!
A lot of people have also been asking me about the swim element of the Static Ironman.
How are you going to swim 3.8km on Grafton Street? A very reasonable question if you think about it. I’m going to use a resistance pool called a SwimGym. A picture tells a thousand words – so check out
http://www.swimgym.ie/
Total time spent training 10 hrs 20min
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