A new blog… Finally.
I knew I hadn’t updated this in a while but
didn’t realize it was a long as New Years … better late that never.
It has been fairly quite since, hence the
lack of blogging.
January and February I was on a five week
placement in a Primary school as part of my degree which was brilliant but
knocked my training a bit with being in Scotland in winter with snow at least
once a week and constantly picking up colds and bugs with being surrounded by
small kids.
I have been to Spain twice since then with
the Irish Triathlon Squad, trying to get my fitness back. I have made a video
from these camps which I hope you will find interesting, you might have already
seen it but I might as well link it to my blog. I will hopefully make a few
videos from time to time as a rather enjoy it, regardless of the fact that I
don’t really know what I am doing and am just really playing about, but its
something different I suppose.
Last weekend I raced my 1st
triathlon of the season, European Premium Cup, Banyoles, Spain . I had
struggled with a strained calf in the weeks leading up the race, and was told
not to do it incase I was to set my self back further, but I was going for
different reasons, I hadn’t raced in 7 months and I wanted to see where my
swim/biking was, it was a process based race not end product.
I didn’t have a great race, I felt swim fit
but made stupid mistakes tactically which comes from race experience and
sharpness; the whole reason I wanted to race therefore gaining what I wanted
from the race. I have hopefully made the mistakes and learnt from them,
hopefully not making the same mistakes when it matters. I was happy with my
biking, so its about getting my run back up to where I want it and start
getting some good results.
I have now reevaluated my race program and
the main focus now is getting in some good run shape.
I have yet to find any photos from the race
but when I do I will stick them up.
