My story, so far

[petemeads]

Brilliant news Alan, onwards and upwards!

Pete

[Quig]

Nice job Alan! Keep it up!

[Tri Hard Alan]

In between my last post I did another Sprint Triathlon 3 weeks ago. The few week previous to that I had felt better than ever. Get up on the morning of the Tri and it all felt a bit twingey. Anyway, raced and no problems but not as pain free as training had been before hand. But had a decent swim and bike to finish 6th in the over 40's wave:


http://my6.raceresult.com/57965/?lang=#5_ED9D17


The run was again short so no actual progress there.


And this weekend I took a bigger step and plunged in to an Olympic distance race at the London Triathlon. This was my first 10k run of any sort and tried to maintain form rather than push hard but it still proved a slog and I couldn't leave the venue for a couple of hours after the race as felt to ill to travel so satisfied I pursed to my limits. Results wise, 16th in the 45-49 AG. My swim and run were up to the levels of 2 years ago where I managed 5th so some good news.


http://results.sporthive.com/events/6148054644085146624/races/383321/bib/8216


The hip is now a bit stiff when I sit for a while and there definitely feels a reaction to the extra distance. I may well stick to sprints for the rest of the year and only have one more scheduled right now and certainly wont do any more than 2.