January 5, 2008

A NEW YEAR DAWNS!

Well ,all the holiday festivities are finally over and with six months to go until the World Double Iron Champs in Quebec I guess it's time to get out and start training.Santa dropped off a new MTB for me to train on and so it's all go here in the tropical far north of Australia.Since arriving back in Oz in October I have done minimal running almost no swimming and under one hundred kilometers on the bike.Instead ,I have eaten way too much crap food and drunk way too much holiday alcohol and have found myself about twenty pounds overweight and feeling very unfit.Not to worry though that makes it all the more interesting for you all to see how I transform myself from fat bastard to fast bastard in six short months.My injuries have,for the most part, healed and I am ready to embrace the hurt.
I will be doing the Rambo style of training which goes completely against the training principles of the modern day uptight triathlete.All my biking will be done on my MTB most of which will be huge hours(not miles)with my trailer attached.My trailer will be loaded with two ten liter water bags and various foodstuffs as well as my running and swimming gear should I feel like a dip or a trot on a nice isolated beach somewhere.This training is really more for my round the world bike trip more than Ironman but it should serve me well come race day.The daily grind will be about 6-8hrs worth of multisport activities and the specific speed/strength work will be kept to a minimum for the first four months as I build my base fitness.
For your inerest I will be capturing my training with my camera so you can check out the beautiful part of Australia in which I live.I will also be keeping a diary of my training for you all to check out and pick apart.As I said,this will be no ordinary six months of work.I will try to prove to you all that it is possible to make yourself a force to be reckoned with in the age group world of Ironmen without the need for all the bells,whistles and gadgets that seem to be thrust upon the average Ironman-Joe these days.I do request one thing from you all though.If you do read my blog,please take the time to make a comment(good or bad)as it gets quite frustrating putting in all this work when you don't know if anybody is actually reading it.
I will continue my fundraising for Athetes in Kind in 2008 and hope you will find it in your hearts to donate to this worthy cause.Please forward this blog to as many of your friends as possible so I can spread the word on the great work that is being done by Lorie Muller and her Athletes in Kind crew.
Stay tuned for the first weeks installment.

DAY ONE-HALIFAX