IMSA, Vegas and Hawaii

I'm well into my training for Ironman South Africa, hence the fact that I've been crap at keeping up to date with my blog. At the moment I'm logging about 24/5 hours a week training and I have to say that while I'm enjoying it, I'm also hating it. I have never trained so hard in my life, every session is pressurized, which is good but it takes it toll. The other week I read 30km of the Dubai marathon, I bagged that in 2hours 5mins, 4.10pkm and then yesterday I smashed 180km on the bike in 4hours 55mins, however the down side is I am starting to fatigued, I've lost almost 6kgs since Christmas and I've got to keep an eye on that as I don't want to be going to low to quickly as my power will really suffer. I've got myself a bike fit thanks to Toby at bikefitasia.com and my new race kit has been delivered its very cool and I'm looking to forward to wearing in my coming races locally before we head out to South Africa.

I've also heard as of this weekend I've been selected for the Great Britain team to head out to Las Vegas this coming November, which is great news if Hawaii doesn't go my way, but I'm not even thinking about, as I will qualify this year. Right, so back to the training, well sleeping I'm to bed as I've got work in the morning and 12 400ms on 6.15.

Nite nite.

Be safe, train hard as always.

Ed and Sarah

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Ok as Yoda would say.....Bad Man, I am!

Firstly I'm sorry for not posting on here more often, but I just can believe how busy I've been for the last 4months, work has been a mare to be honest, but t pays the bills and keeps me in runners and toys. So its got to be done :-(

I promise I'm going to keep up with this blog, it's new year res! Anyhow HAPPY NEW YEAR and I hope you all had a good Xmas. We flew back to the UK saw Jack and family and put on too much weight, esp as there was so much snow around. It took us longer to get off the M25 than it did for us to fly back from Dubai.

Tomorrow I've got a bike fit with Toby from Bike Fit Asia, I'm looking forward to it. I'll also review the year we've had over the weekend.

Take care

Ed and Sarah

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Ghantoot Dirt Route:

Wow, what a couple of days. Getting back the sand pit has been great. It's been great to see everyone on the tri team and it's been great to get into some proper training again. My programme for this month is pretty steady and mostly I'm on easy stuff, getting used to the heat again and the humidity. Friday we did a time trial, as a whole group 3 lots of 13kms. I averaged 43kmph throughout, which at this stage of my off season I was happy with. Swimming wise I'm back in the pool hitting out 1.20min per 100m at easy pace and a steady 1km time trial. My running has been fun and to be honest I'm just taking it all a tad steady simply due to the heat etc. This evening I ran with the team on the Ghantoot dirt run 9km off road, then 4.7km at any pace wise you like. My splits are below, kms 1 to 9 were with the team nice and steady, kms 9 to 13 were as you like:

1 00:05:34
2 00:05:45
3 00:05:51
4 00:06:15
5 00:06:40
6 00:06:21
7 00:06:20
8 00:06:22
9 00:05:55
10 00:04:34
11 00:04:37
12 00:04:34
13 00:04:27

Back to work on Monday, still it's been a great summer and Sarah and I have loved every minute. Thanks to everyone who has made it possible from the tri team, friends back home in the UK and lastly, most importantly our families. Especially Jack the dog, we miss you boy and love you forever.

Be safe as always,

Ed