30th Sept - Bike

Provence

Hard road riding with big ascent - 3.5 hours

Cereste to Apt and then up and over col (12km, ascent 800m) to Largarde d'Apt, then back over ridge and down to Apt and on to Cereste. Stopped at Apt on way back for a coke and sat in the sun for too long, got café legs a la Hinksy on the Hackney Rotherfield ride. Didn't take enough food, otherwise fantastic ride and good to ride with Si Richardson.

29th Sept - Mountain Bike

Cereste, Provence

2hrs mountain biking with Si Richardson

Cereste, Mont Justin, Reillane, Carluc, Cereste. Feeling good. Fantastic weather, great scenery.

20th Sept - Triathlon

Lorton Sprint Triathlon - 1:43:48

Had mech problems on the bike split, but pleased with the swim and run splits. Awesome weekend, we had 9 people racing in total. The course was good but had to be changes due to the mud and huge puddles along the Whinfell track section. We all finished within 20 mins of each other. Great performances from all, see race report here.

Swim (1km) ----19:08 (Crummock Water)
T1 --------------- 1:41
Bike (22km) --1:03:52 (Lap of Whinfell via Lorton and Loweswater)
T2 ---------------1:45
Run (5km)------17:20 (Lanthwaite Wood to Whinfell Hall)

18th Sept - Swim

London Fields Lido

1km with pull buoy - 20:41.9

Feeling ok.

10:15.2
10:26.7

14th Sept - XCountry Race

Eridge 10 (10 mile XCountry-run around Eridge Park, East Sussex)

1h 11:02 (12th place out of 390)

Pleased with good run despite lack of running training recently. Eridge Park is fantastic running and this course was good with plenty of hills. Felt strong uphill and hammered the downhills making up a lot of time on other runners. Will definitely do this race again next year. With more run training this course probably goes 1h 09:30.

13th Sept - Swim

Hampstead Heath Lido

45 mins swim - medium/fast pace (Wetsuit)

Great swim. I love that pool.

9th Sept - Swim

London Fields Lido

1km with pull buoy - 19:34.0

Feeling good.

9:45.3
9:48.7

7th Sept - Exercises

50 press-ups
50 sit-ups

6th Sept - Swim

London Fields Lido

5km (wetsuit) - 1:28:42

Good swim, feeling not too shab. Although I have done 5km before out of the wetsuit, this was my first timed 5km IN the wetsuit. Arms fell off on the final 500 as I was trying to go sub-9 mins and didn't get close! Average 500 - 8:52.2, I reckon I should be able to get this down to 8:45 without too many problems.

8:08.3
8:33.0
8:42.9 (1.5km - 25:24.2)
8:57.5
8:54.2
9:01.7 (3km - 52:17.6)
8:58.0
9:03.2
9:06.3
9:17.6 (5km - 1:28:42)

Ironman distance split 3.8km - 1:06:42 (PB)

5th Sept - Swim

London Fields Lido

30 mins medium pace (Wetsuit)

Felt fine, good session.

Hinksy got his wetsuit yesterday so this was an unplanned session to try it out. With the wetsuit helping masively I knew he'd find it a lot easier the swimming with it and I think this was good for his confidence and I knew he'd enjoy wearing tight rubber because he's like that. He did 2km i.e. half-ironman distance for the first time - well done.

2nd Sept - Run

Lauriston Road to Limehouse and back with Hinksy

45 mins, easy.

2nd Sept - Swim

London Fields Lido

1.5km (first two 500s with Pull Buoy, third without) - 29:08.4

Feeling ok, think this type of session is improving my reach and glide.

9:24.9
10:06.2
9:37.3