With apologies to Helen Fielding, this is what my week would have looked like according to Bridget Jones:
June 18th Week 4 of Sabbatical:
weight = lower than when I was 18 years old. Must eat more. Getting very cold - had to turn heating on to keep warm.
Swims = 20km total. Arms now falling off. v.g.
Runs = 2 in training, 2 in races. Not bad.
Bikes = 2 more than the coach asked for, bit naughty
Disagreements with coach = 1. Oops. Must learn the difference between a 1 hour 30 ride and a 5 hour ride....
Races; only one aquathon so far (came 2nd this morning) and managed to watch one mid-week without getting tempted to join in!
Food consumed this week:
I ate my whole week's food by Thursday morning: 2 steaks, 1 salmon, 5 chicken breasts, 2 big tubs of yoghurt, at least 250g porridge oats, 1 pack of polenta, 250g of rice, no potatoes, no pulses. Ribs and wedges at Jennie's house (thanks chick!) and a naughty English Breakfast, which I then regretted when I went running afterwards!
1 cheesecake with creme fraiche. A bar of chocolate - dark so it must be good for you.
Strawberries, rasperries, 3 avocados, a pomegranate, unlimited salad, spinach, asparagus and broccoli.
Alcohol units: 2 glasses of wine with dinner last night, another 2 on Monday. Not enough!!
movies watched while recovering (getting better at this): Blind Side, Never Let me Go, Daylight, Sin City. oh and a bit of Quantum of Solace plus a fair amount of Euro 2012.
I finally started to get a bit bored this week, mainly of going out on my bike and getting soaking wet. Only so many times you can persuade your friends out to get blown inside out and soaked on a bike. So its definitely time to get out of this dreadful summer and enjoy some European heat. One last race here before I leave next Friday. Tomorrow is the National Olympic distance Champs, in Ellesmere, Shropshire. My start time is 11:10. Oh, and they have warmed us that the lake has Blue-Green Algae. If this race also turns into a duathlon becuase the swim is too unsafe, I will seriously give up on triathlons in the UK. I didn't swim 20km this week to end up doing a run-bike-run!
So I'm off up there shortly, out of all phone signals probably and the great social networking monster probably can't find the results either til later on.... so I will post up here when I get home. I'm hoping that my poor tired body has something left for this race!
June 18th Week 4 of Sabbatical:
weight = lower than when I was 18 years old. Must eat more. Getting very cold - had to turn heating on to keep warm.
Swims = 20km total. Arms now falling off. v.g.
Runs = 2 in training, 2 in races. Not bad.
Bikes = 2 more than the coach asked for, bit naughty
Disagreements with coach = 1. Oops. Must learn the difference between a 1 hour 30 ride and a 5 hour ride....
Races; only one aquathon so far (came 2nd this morning) and managed to watch one mid-week without getting tempted to join in!
Food consumed this week:
I ate my whole week's food by Thursday morning: 2 steaks, 1 salmon, 5 chicken breasts, 2 big tubs of yoghurt, at least 250g porridge oats, 1 pack of polenta, 250g of rice, no potatoes, no pulses. Ribs and wedges at Jennie's house (thanks chick!) and a naughty English Breakfast, which I then regretted when I went running afterwards!
1 cheesecake with creme fraiche. A bar of chocolate - dark so it must be good for you.
Strawberries, rasperries, 3 avocados, a pomegranate, unlimited salad, spinach, asparagus and broccoli.
Alcohol units: 2 glasses of wine with dinner last night, another 2 on Monday. Not enough!!
movies watched while recovering (getting better at this): Blind Side, Never Let me Go, Daylight, Sin City. oh and a bit of Quantum of Solace plus a fair amount of Euro 2012.
I finally started to get a bit bored this week, mainly of going out on my bike and getting soaking wet. Only so many times you can persuade your friends out to get blown inside out and soaked on a bike. So its definitely time to get out of this dreadful summer and enjoy some European heat. One last race here before I leave next Friday. Tomorrow is the National Olympic distance Champs, in Ellesmere, Shropshire. My start time is 11:10. Oh, and they have warmed us that the lake has Blue-Green Algae. If this race also turns into a duathlon becuase the swim is too unsafe, I will seriously give up on triathlons in the UK. I didn't swim 20km this week to end up doing a run-bike-run!
So I'm off up there shortly, out of all phone signals probably and the great social networking monster probably can't find the results either til later on.... so I will post up here when I get home. I'm hoping that my poor tired body has something left for this race!
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