It's something like five weeks and four days to go.. not that I am counting. I've had a rest day and used it to organise the home gym, the inspiration wall and read pages of the fab book
Iron Planner. I've started looking at what tshirts I want my family and support crew to wear. I am going to meet my coach on the weekend and I am going to have my first watt bike test. I am more obsessed than usual - yes it's possible - and I completely forgot to compose a blog while swimming. Instead I wrote a list of things I want to blog about but won't get time to.
So as a note to myself I want to blog about:
- my winter bike ride - as requested by Bart
- being coached
- my swim camp
- strength training and my opinionated opinions
- why I love pilates
- the fab Team Glow
- learning to cycle: cycling for dummies
- Kielder duathlon
- riding to Holmfirth
- how to put together a blessed Thule bike rack
- making the transition from Grover to Red - my hybrid and road bike
- my first long night ride
- the importance of support
- Freedom from Torture in the North West and why they matter
- Ennderdale 25k trail race and Jon's ultra
- New Year's Day open water swim
Phew. Exhausted thinking about it all! I'll have to add blogging into my training schedule. Actually I have a separate wall planner (you can never have too many eh My Sharky?!) that is for non-training related training stuff. Yes that makes sense to me. Like testing the wetsuit on a long swim, testing my fuel, practising a tyre change mid long ride, printing out my paperwork, setting all my watches, writing out my visualisation etc. Fortunately the IronPlanner creates lists of all these things so I can tick them off. I'm so excited I don't know where this post is going now so I will end here. Feel free to vote for which blog posts I should tackle first as motivation to do them!
I can't wait for you to write these entries - this one was pretty inspiring by itself, just because of the energy in it. I've just ordered a copy of Iron Planner. Nothing better than lists and planners (apart from ticking things off lists and planners.
ReplyDeleteThank you Martin! Great to have you along for the journey!
ReplyDeleteFrancoise, I enjoy your posts too. If you are as silly as me about planning then you will love Ironplanner. I can't find the online spreadsheets but actually scribling in the book was ace - also I can give it to the other half on race day so he knows exactly what to do! And the visualisation instructions in it are ace.