Grade 3 but not in music but a torn calf muscle!!

So i sign up for Windsor and the very next day I was with the kids at school at a tag rugby festival. All was cool we made the finals and then back to school for football training. All was going well, just skinned this 10yr old and my calf went pop!! I even looked around as I thought someone had hit me with a stone but no one was there so went to push off and fell immediately to the floor in absolute agony. The pain was mental. i had to hobble off apply some ice and then hobble to the car for more ice. luckily it was my left leg so my knee was ok so it was quiet easy changing gear.

But today was a good day it was the last visit to the physio and I got the all clear to start very light strength training on it and slowly very slowly build it back up to run on it properly.

I also saw on the gadget show a system for suspension training costing a massive £175. A bit of research and bish, bash, bosh internet searching resulted in the necessary straps bought for £16.50 and have completed my first training session tonight. My word they are fab and that was only doing 30 seconds per exercise. Shaky arms and shaky core as we speak. Mind you my core was shaky before I started in fact every time I walked there was a bit of a wobble!! will post photo of it soon for you all to laugh at me.

Sign up and motivated

Well thanks to Susan tipping me off that a friend of hers has signed up for Windsor and asked if I wanted to do it I immediately jumped at the chance. So then set up a new countdown clock, new profile picture and a change of the profile. In fact the picture was taken at Windsor Triathlon 2007 the last time I raced it in 2hr 34 min. Three minutes quicker than the first time I raced it.

So this time I want to break 2hrs 30 minutes. No excuses. I love the bike leg and the swim is fantastic as soon as you reach the turn around point and get the current behind you. The run is three loops with an evil little climb up to the castle but somehow enjoyable as it has loads of crowd around the course to encourage you to go faster and not walk.

So now a winter of training and plenty of turbo / brick sessions to come. I need to work on my speed having spent the last few years on distance. Time to re-focus and get fast.

So excited and really looking forward as a long training session is going to be a max of 3 hours and not the 7 hours of the past.