April brings smiles!!!

April was a much much better month..but cost me a small fortune.
It all started in March with back injury....its a long standing injury but this year really threatened my second attempt at Ironman. i hardly did any training in March so i was determined to try and get back on track..but it had to be steady and slow and i had to ignore the books and other peoples training blogs and remember this was my race against only myself...and patience is how i'll come back.

So it started with the chiropractor and he got me straight...it then moved on to Bridgetown Cycles, bike mecca of the UK.(http://www.btownbikes.com//) Mike there is a genius when it comes to bike fitting and he set me up with a new trek madone 3.1 that fits me perfect and is incredible to ride...so i'm chuffed to bits with that...unfortunately the WAT (Wife Added Tax..for those of you not in the BCTTT) stood at a whopping 100%...so i had to buy MrsB one too....Trek Madone 3.1 WSD.....the good thing about this is when out riding together Cat has improved 100% too...so i'm not waiting for her any more (in fact in a hungover state she actually chicked me up the hills)...both bikes are brilliant and its nice to have somebody to ride with though she's obviously not training to achieve the same sort of distances so my longer rides will probably be part alone.

Finally OW swimming is here too...i started last week in reading at the copthorne hotel HI 5 swim centre....cold but a mile right off the bat and pretty easy...pretty slow (36 mins) but thats about my pace so i can start building that up now.

April 2010 239 cycling
April 2011 202 cycling

April 2010 30 running
April 2011 31 running

no swimming...that started in May last year and has done this year

So...the back is feeling great, the shoulders not too bad (probably a bike problem too)..knees like cream cheese!!! but i'm on track i think....i have not lost as much weight as i'd hoped (i lost 1/2 stone before injury but some of that went back on) so i'm going to try and get that down a bit more...though as i've always said....i wont worry too much about that. fitness wise i reckon i'm stronger than i was on race day last year in both biking and running...so its time to focus for 12 weeks....and make it happen!!