Any time in the pool usually gives me 'chlorine head', but after nearly 10 hours of swimming last Saturday, 2 days of living with rolled up tissue stuck up my nose, and then a stupid idea to bike to work at 5am on the Tuesday, Man Flu struck!

Jokes aside (of which there were plenty at work and at home), it wrote off training for the entire week.  Even now after not training for 10 days, I am still coughing up golf balls.

The good news, is that all the long stuff is now done.  With only 9 days to go before the Deca, and the knowledge that any training session's effect takes at least 8 days to show improvement, any training done now would just be to sharpen up.

A few days of cycling, running and swimming before the weekend, then it will be a week completely off apart from a few lengths up and down.  Roland Patzina has just started the run at 6pm tonight at the Enduroman Lanzarote Ultra.  I wish him the very best of luck.  He has already booked a 2 week training camp at the Enduroman Villa next year in preparation for the 2010 Deca Iron UK