Day 2 - The Actual Start

Well yesterday was not actually first day of training - as went home and did a quick plan for the weeks ahead.

First port of call was 7am swim session in Belvedere College. The pool normally opens from 6.30 to 8.30 but, between 7am and 7.45am, Tony Morris holds an organised swim session with different lanes for different abilities. Currently holding up the back of the second fastest lane. Made it in just on time for the Wednesday session (no warm up) which is a lactate threshold session - all out speed (relatively speaking!!) with long rest between intervals. Total swimming was 1,550m.

I generally find it easier to swim with groups as long swims on your own is too boring.

Straight after work was a 50min run at a HR of 138. Avg pace was 9.8km - slow but have to start somewhere.

My two biggest aims over the comings months are:

1. Try and eat less of the bad stuff. I generally tend to see large quantities of bad food on a regular basis. Sometimes the more I train the more I use this as an excuse to eat bad stuff on the basis that I have burnt enough calories during a workout. Less weight equals more speed. Anyways this will be a slow process.

2. Training will not affect family time. As most athletes know this can be difficult especially from a cycling point of view as you need to put in the hours. I find that when I am training well it can become all consuming and I forget that it is only a hobby. Will try and do most workouts during the week before work and during lunchtime and early at the weekends.

Anyways, total training time was 1hr 35 mins - so not a bad start to the programme.