DISASTROUS WEEK

Well so much for:

1. Trying to east well; and

2. Trying to get a bit of structure.

Both went out the window - especially on Sunday. While the wife had to go visit a relative in hospital, and I was at home minding the kids and putting them to bed, I had the pigout of my life. Between 6.30pm and 9.15pm I ate (in order of consumption) an extra large twix, a large pizza, 1litre of diet 7-Up (that's a joke!!), four slices of ham, 2 petit filous, 2 bars of chocolate and 10, yes 10, apple pies. This was all finished off with 4 cups of tea. This could not be put down to hunger (as I had eaten breakfast and Sunday roast earlier in the day) or large amounts of exercise (as I did nothing of note this week).

Previously, on Saturday night, I went to the cinema and had a large packet of crisps, a large packet of maltesers and a coke. I saw 'The Hangover' which was excellent and well worth a look. Thought I would start afresh on Sunday re diet, but as you can see this was not the case.

Have to seriously sort this out. I am concerned about what's happening on my insides when I consume this much, rather than my physical appearance. Don't want to analyse the underlying issues causing this overeating. Have put on a bit of weight anyways.

Getting back to the training I did nothing on Wednesday or Friday. Played 2 hrs of football on Thursday and 1 hr of football on Sunday. Ran for 47 mins with Keith Rothwell on Saturday morning (congratulations by the way). We are gonna make this a weekly run and try an build it up to 2.5/3 hrs as I prepare for Barcelona and he prepares for Dublin City Marathon.

Also did the first Skerries sea swim on Sunday at 4pm, which was duly won by Irish Times columnist Shane Hegarty. Not sure of distance but about 10 mins in length. Shane later confirmed my suspicions that he had been doing secret training in the pool for the last few months. I swam OK and came in with the main bunch.

Not gonna mention weekly total this time as so bad and a lot of it not really tri-specific.

Just taking it as one of the bad weeks and need to move on!!!!!