Monday 12 April 2010

Ma femme est une legende...


This week it's (nearly) all about my amazing wife, who jetted off to France under the proverbial cover of darkness on Friday morning for a covert mission to take on the mighty Paris marathon. Her blog entry is likely to be infinitely more interesting than mine so I'll let her fill you in on the details, but just thought I'd start this short blog entry by saying how amazingly proud of her I was as she blagged a last minute entry and set off to take on the wonderful challenge of racing 26.2 miles. 


This week has been a real roller-coaster on my journey to Lanzarote on May the 22nd. I started on the wrong foot with FAR too much chocolate on Sunday and Monday, leaving me feeling sick as a dog and almost devoid of any motivation and about as far from the athlete that I so desire to be. It's amazing how poor food choices can really affect my mood, but they do, and frustratingly I have a great habit of adding to the problem by comfort eating and simply adding to the issue. Fortunately I also seem quite good at chucking in a couple of hard sessions and jump starting myself back into gear... this week then I had a 130 mile ride scheduled for Tuesday, a hard 22 mile run for Thursday and the Circuit of the Dales hilly (very - much more vertical ascent than Ironman Austria in less than half the distance). The 130 was always planned as an easy ride and I've never struggled with distance, but Thursday and today were key sessions in the build up to Lanzarote... both of which I've done for the last three or four years and so would therefore provide some great feedback...


To keep this short I'll just drop in the stats...


22 Mile hilly run including the Leeds Half Marathon Route...


2007 - 2:32:59
2008 - 2:33:10
2009 - 2:38:55
2010 - 2:30:25


Circuit of the Dales hilly 50


2006 - 2:38:22
2007 - 2:30:31 (short course)
2008 - 2:32:55
2009 - DNS
2010 - 2:21:03


So, with four good training weeks (and they will be good, believe me) and a two week taper... the swingometer is tilting slightly toward Hawaii ;)


T


p.s. the first rule about swimming is that we don't talk about swimming!

6 comments:

runwildrunfree said...

Tom, looks like the training is going well to Lanza. Very best of luck. Ian

iamlaurie.co.uk said...

And the second rule??? LOL

Keep going Tom, your doing amazingly!

runtilyoudrop said...

Sounds fantastic Tom. And well done Helen. Keep the focus and avoid the chocolate!!

Debra said...

Superb stats Tom, keep it up and plesae don't say there are any other IM races you can sneak off to before 22nd, don't want to be glued to my internet on the wrong day!

Tom said...

Thanks for the love everyone... no need to worry Debra, there's no chance of me sneaking in a pre-Lanza mdot ;)

Rob Quantrell said...

awesome work Tom - everythings building up right on track! you should patent your 16x16 approach, it seems to have worked a treat"