The one where I switched my training strategy

A couple of big decisions this last week. Primarily, we were planning to extend our house and had been building up to this. However, with the work that had been going on in the Garden I have decided to do a lover cost garden based alternative. We are going to have a wooden summerhouse built to use as a training base. It will be called the pain cave. The plan is to have a treadmill and Turbo Trainer set up permanently in there.

Also this week I have re-read the Don Fink book; ‘Be Iron Fit’ to remind me about what I am about to undertake.  I will be honest I am a little daunted seeing it all written down is making it more real.  I am literally going to be eating, sleeping, working and training – with little time for anything else for 30 weeks when I start.  However we need to pick an event and book it next year.  Current thinking is possibly Estonia, Austria or Bolton.

I have now also switched my runs to time based, rather than distance based. For example; instead of going for a 5km run – I will go for a 40 min Run. The runs and bike ride will be based on HR Zones also;

Ooh yeah – I nearly forgot to mention I hit 4st weight loss 😊