The one with the new coach

So, when I started this journey I knew I wanted to do an ironman, but that was so far off I never really thought that hard about it. The plan was always 1) Lose Weight 2) learn to swim 3) train for Ironman 4) Complete ironman. I kind of guessed that I would need some kind of support, to be honest I didn’t really know what. The first part of the Journey started with crying about my weight in my friends dining room and his wife offering to help me lose weight.

Since that point I followed couch to 5k and Zoe’s plan and managed to achieve that goal, and the last Saturday 1/5/20 I ran a 10k run. After I had finished it dawned on me, nearly 4st lighter that I was slowly but surely hitting all of the goals I had set out to achieve. The thought entered my head again about the ironman. I had booked swimming lessons to start in June, the Bike I could handle a century ride as have done this before, the marathon was following a plan I bought. What it dawned on me is that I would not have the professional ongoing support that I was receiving as part of my dieting journey. Having thought a lot about ‘I wished Zoe (my conditioning coach and mentor)’ could do Ironman Coaching – I decided to ask her to be my coach all the way to the end of this journey. This was such a big deal to have her knowledge and support in my corner.

To my delight she said yes, so that’s it, I now have an Ironman coach with me all the way on the journey. Overjoyed is an understatement. Head down to get the weight off and to spur me on a bit I booked a half marathon in October 2020! I also sat down and wrote my goals down – breaking it into achievable chunks. This is going to be the basis of my next 2 years of my life.