Newbie in Swansea - help!!

Hi, sorry i did not reply before but i thought someone with more knowledge would post something. the best thing i can recommend is to join a tri club. you can private message me if you want and the maybe we could chat on the phone. all the best anyway.

spongy.

Hello there

Hooray, you sound just like me!

I am in swansea, well Newton and turn 40 next year so my mate and i have decided to do the mumbles tri. I have ran up to half maratrhon before but have been injured for over a year and have two little ones in tow.

How are you getting on with the training? We r following the olympic training plan too. Not because we are that fit though, its more that if we miss one we wont feel so bad about it!

Are you working? When do you do most of your training? I have borrowed a friends 20 year old bike that he had sat in the shed for years. My partner has put new wheels and new brakes on it and i think it will be ok. The bike route is quite hilly and i cant believe its 20 miles. Are you doing the long or short sprint? There is another on in Port Eyenon in september...............

I look forward to hearing from you

regards

Diane

Hi, great to hear that your enjoying the thought of doing a few tri's.

try to follow your plan the best you can, even if you only do a little something its better than nothing, and your body stays in its training phase, rather than repairing itself too much and then having to go through the ache again.

don't forget to look for a local club.

i'm no athelete, i just plod and push through my training plan, working it around shift work and the family.

i start the season with a sprint distance or two, then go on to olympic distance as i find this distance suits me better as i'm in my aerobic zone not anerobic zone.

your partner sounds handy with bikes so be nice as you'll need that assisstance as time go's on.

i you can run a half marathon then olympic distance will probably be good for you towards the end of the season.

just enjoy some sprint distance tri's first and book your tri's early not to be disappointed. 

regards

spongy

Thanks for the input, really appricaite it.

Unfortunately, I am now on day 6 of not training due to a chest infection and sickness which all of the family have had..................absolute nightmare. My chest is starting to clear and hope i will beable to get back into it by maybe sunday or monday. I am abit paranoid as i have ran when not well before that resulted in bronchitis so i dont want to go there ever again.

But i am unsure what to do regarding the training plan. I had got to week 4 which i had just completed then got sick. Where do i start of again? Should i start at week 6 as that is where i should be? do it with less intensity? repeat week 4?

Help not sure what to do?

Any advice would be really appriciated

Regards

 diane