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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Return of the Slack Blogger

Don't worry people - I am still alive.

A lot has been happening around our little town in the last couple of weeks with the WORLD triathlon champs being held just down the road.  I had a Javier Gomez sighting on my normal ride home from work and a Johnny Brownlee sighting as I was going about my usual Saturday morning efforts - exciting!
At the buttcrack of dawn before the Elite Women's race

Blue pontoon
Aside from tri-geek star spotting I have been doing the usual training and, for once, working quite hard.

Swimming has mainly been centred around the AG World's so peaked a couple of weeks ago with a nasty threshold set of 100's and as eased off a bit since then.  Despite my proclamation about my amazing swimming ability I swam like a sloth in a 400m and 200m TT a few weeks ago pushing me into a swimming depression.  On the bright side I have two new sexy pairs of togs which make swimming slightly more appealing.

Biking is involving lots of efforts and making myself hurt.  We had a little training camp in Kinloch a couple of weekends the other day and did a couple of rather meaty rides in some rather meaty wind.  Next up will be a ride around the K2 course which I suspect is going to be a very long day and hurt quite a lot.
The Lawson family

Cool people in the back
Running is ticking along, my little hip/groin problem has resurfaced slightly but is mostly being kept under control with lots of stretching and strengthening.  It seems that my whole left side is rather weak and munted but I am working on it.
I went for a delicious run around Lake Wakatipu and the Lake Hayes the next day followed the next weekend by a bush run in Kinloch which was nice but resulted in my beautiful shoes being rather bloodstained due to some ouchy foot bits which rubbed raw.  Poor shoes...
No so pretty and clean anymore despite copious cleaning

Perfect post run recovery in Queenstown 

The view out of my window in my post-run recovery spot