Running Mileage to date - More Amsterdam PBs

In the excitment of the time recorded in Amsterdam I didn't realise that the 13.1 miles of the race took my annual mile for 2007 to 951miles. That is more than I've run in any year previously.

Ironman New Zealand - now building

Today is the first day of week 7 of the 24 week Ironman training schedule that I'm following for Ironman New Zealand.
Importantly it's the first day of the second 6 week phase of the schedule. The first 6 weeks were about aclimatising to training. These next 6 weeks are about 'building'.
How's the progress coming along? Well the biking seems reasonable. The running is probably the best it's ever been, certainly over longer distances. The swimming is off the boil, but with some technique tips and a swim routine I'm sure that it will come back.

Amsterdam Half

Had a good trip out to Amsterdam with the Norwich Road Runners trip over the weekend. Got a good time on the half marathon, a personal best (PB) by 8.5minutes with a time of 1:33:47. That works out to 13.5kmph and 7.10mpm (minutes per mile).
Quite a nice way to round up week 5 of the 24 week Ironman schedule. Shame we had to spend so much time in a coach.

A most exciting game of rugby ...

... there was no shame in finishin second in this evenings world cup semi final. As it happens, England got the advantage over France, but with 10 minutes to go the game could easily have gone either way.

Now watching Ironman Hawaii online - come on Karl, come on Penny, come on Leanda.

Running in the Dark

Rob Kilbourn and I went for our Friday evening run this evening. Fancied something new, so went from the George and Dragon in Thurton. Intended on a 7.5miler but it was dark and ended up doing 7miles. Was really nice running in the dark. Please I took a print out of the route and the headlight off my bike.

Have been busy...

... with two extracuricular activites of late:
Tri-Anglia Club kit - more details here.
Tri-Anglia Web2.0 - work in progress here.

Doesn't happen often....

... but it happened earlier this evening (Monday 8th Oct). In fact it's only the second time I can recall it happening since I was about 16 years old, so nearly almost quarter of a century. What was the occurance? Well, it was of swimming in a public session and having someone there faster than me. This evening it was Mike Auger, winner of this years Norwich Triathlon, that was dominating the pool.
(Obviously I get beaten by loads of people when the swimming clubs are in, but they don't count as public sessions.)