I must have chose the worse possible week to commit to 50 miles per day cycling.  Last Sunday wasn't a problem as I had a free day after Lucy racing at the Duston Triathlon. 



Although she finshed 4 mins quicker than last year's winning time, Lucy's time of 59mins 20 seconds only secured 2nd place for her.  She had a great race, clocking 5 mins 4sec for her 400m swim (40 secs faster than her PB).

On Monday evening after I finished the bike, I went to supervise both Tom Beaver and Jo Kilkenny who both succesfully completed their 2hr cold water qualification swim for Enduroman. 

 They can both now use the boat in Weymouth for their channel training.  I did however get caught in a storm where the hale stones looked and felt like footballs.  I start work daily at 7am, so my plans were to bike the shortest route of 20 miles to work and back, refuel, then head out for an extra 10 miles.  I managed this Monday and Tuesday but things got a little complicated Wednesday when my dentist called me in for an appointment after work. 



I decided that I would make this the day I only cycled 30 miles and jumped on the turbo.  Thursday went to plan but then I rememebered that I had a works do on the Friday evening.  As this was my last day of cycling 50 miles, I thought I would take a rest day, then go out for 100 miler on Monday with Lucy.

For the first time in months, I had one too many beers and it felt like a monkey had shat in my mouth on Saturday morning.  No peace for the wicked though as I had to take Lucy to race over 1500m on the track at Leicester.  Lucy hadn't raced on the track for 13 years so she surprised overyone when she came 2nd clocking a new PB!!  Worse for me though, I got roped into doing the 3rd leg of a 4x400m relay.  That certainly blew a few cobwebs off!!  The plan was to do my 9 mile run when I got home but the one-lap sprint around the track finished me off!!

On Sunday morning, 2 of my athletes were racing at the 3 Spires Triathlon.  Rachael Stoakes won the women's race even after punturing at the bike turnaround point and then riding 6 miles on a flat!  Phil Wolfe came 3rd in the Men's race clocking an impressive 15mins 55sec for his 5K run split. 



Having already completed my first 9 mile run in the morning, I took Lucy, Rachael and Greg for lunch.  Things again didn't go to plan.  Some 6 hours later, we were still rooted to our bar stools and I had already started to dread the hangover the next morning.

After the monkey had visited again this morning, I realised that the delay of muscle soreness was not delaying any more and the efforts of the relay 2 days previously were clear to see.  Deca training couldn't be more different than 400m training.

I then found out that my Dad was travelling up from Cornwall to see me which could only mean one thing.... make way for the Monkey tomorrow! It looks like I will be too sore to train today.  I may pop down the pool for a paddle but hopefully I will be back at it tomorrow.

I drink beer probably about once per month and then its only 3 pints before my homing pigeon takes me home.  So the last few days have taken their toll.