Recovering well.

Legs are almost working properly again today. I can now get up and down stairs without a handrail and without needing to go down sideways one step at a time. Even managed to run up a half flight of stairs. Feet a still a bit of a mess though.
First day back at the office and my boss had arranged for a 'Congratulations' note to appear on our Intranet. Thanks Nick.

Ironman South Africa

Did it and did it well getting 4 personal bests on route. 1:00:05 for the swim (including shower and run up the beach to transition. 5:40 for the bike which was an absolute blast. The run was hard, but fun and completed in 4:15 making for an overall time of 11:12:25 which was 58minutes faster than my previous Ironman outing.

Finished 292nd out of 1404 so up there. But not quite as 'up there' as a couple of people I met the following day at the slot allocation session. Ended up sitting next to fellow Britts Stephen Bayliss and Bella Comerford who had won the overall race and the ladies race respectively.

A big congratulations to the pair of them. Well done also to my travelling buddy and room mate Russell Clarke, we went out onto the run together and he finished in a time of 10:52:24, 203rd overall and 5th in his age group. His time is the second fastest by a Tri-Anglia member.

Running in PE

Now been in Port Elizabeth for a few days (some pictures already on the tri-anglia website) had a couple of rides, a couple of swims and a couple of runs.
This morning's run will be the last longer run at 8.3miles, on which we saw a baboon/monkey in the university grounds. Route we followed: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1763138
Now just a week to go to Ironman South Africa. Looking forward to it. It's going to be interesting. Not sure I'm looking forward to running 3 times the distance that we ran this morning.
Just like to say thank you to everyone who has helped in my training so far, and to everyone who has made a donation to SIA.

Photos and trip diary have been added to www.tri-anglia.co.uk