This year the Triathlon Association of Singapore (TAS) will be conducting their Championship Triathlon on the 29th of September.
My Goal for the Triathlon will be to go under 2 hours and 40 miunutes. This is a goal that I set mysef about 10 years ago, but one which I have not gone close to reaching. This Blog will be a record of my preparation for the event. I have one major consideration in planning my preparation. In addition to having a job and a family that require my attention in equal measure, I also have to plan for a very busy September during which I will be holidaying in Bali and possibly travelling to Australia for work. This means that I need to plan to have my fitness training completed by the end of August and then work on speed, strengh and technique while travelling during September. I am lucky to have a good base that I built up while preparing for the Aviva Half Iron man and I will need to rely on this as I start increasing load over the next 7 weeks.
Day 1: Sunday 7/7/2012
I woke up a bit shakey this morning. Suffered a bit of jet lag and tiredness from returning from Europe yesterday. I travelled with Sandra, (Claire's mum), Bridget, (Claire's niece), Sophie and Gabriella from Nice to Singapore via Rome, Venice and Dubai. The story of this trip is not for this post. Maybe I will set this down elswhere in my Blog. Maybe it is beter just to forget.
Prepared a breakfast for champions. I put on about 3 and a half kgs since Bintan. I was trying to build up a bit of muscle in the 3 weeks after the Bintan triathlon and I did not worry too much about diet while I was travelling. I am confident of getting my weight down to about 70kgs over the next few weeks with the rigth diet and exercise.
Breakfast consisted of Sausage, scrambled eggs and chick pea salad which consists of:
After breakfast, I went out for a very easy 40 km ride. I didn't get any stats from the ride as the battery in my trip computer faded out overnight last night. Later in the day I picked up new batteries for the trip computer from our loocal bike shop.
It was a nice easy day with an easy ride and lots of walking. Dinner consisted of Chicken soup and caramel tart. Not so much the dinner of champions! Delicious none the less. I didn't get tim for lunch. A couple of spoons full of peanut paste and some codien tablets. (Bad headache from sitting on plane and getting dried out like an Egyptian mummy. Anyway, day one is done,m my preparation is started and I am very excited about what is in store over the next 2 and a half months.
My Goal for the Triathlon will be to go under 2 hours and 40 miunutes. This is a goal that I set mysef about 10 years ago, but one which I have not gone close to reaching. This Blog will be a record of my preparation for the event. I have one major consideration in planning my preparation. In addition to having a job and a family that require my attention in equal measure, I also have to plan for a very busy September during which I will be holidaying in Bali and possibly travelling to Australia for work. This means that I need to plan to have my fitness training completed by the end of August and then work on speed, strengh and technique while travelling during September. I am lucky to have a good base that I built up while preparing for the Aviva Half Iron man and I will need to rely on this as I start increasing load over the next 7 weeks.
Day 1: Sunday 7/7/2012
I woke up a bit shakey this morning. Suffered a bit of jet lag and tiredness from returning from Europe yesterday. I travelled with Sandra, (Claire's mum), Bridget, (Claire's niece), Sophie and Gabriella from Nice to Singapore via Rome, Venice and Dubai. The story of this trip is not for this post. Maybe I will set this down elswhere in my Blog. Maybe it is beter just to forget.
Prepared a breakfast for champions. I put on about 3 and a half kgs since Bintan. I was trying to build up a bit of muscle in the 3 weeks after the Bintan triathlon and I did not worry too much about diet while I was travelling. I am confident of getting my weight down to about 70kgs over the next few weeks with the rigth diet and exercise.
Breakfast consisted of Sausage, scrambled eggs and chick pea salad which consists of:
1 can of Chick Peas
1/2 a red capsicum
1 whole Japanese Cucumber
Dressing
juice of 1 lemon
Equal measure of Olive Oil
1 garlic clove crushed and finely cut.
Complemented beautifully by a cup of Lavazza coffee.
It was a nice easy day with an easy ride and lots of walking. Dinner consisted of Chicken soup and caramel tart. Not so much the dinner of champions! Delicious none the less. I didn't get tim for lunch. A couple of spoons full of peanut paste and some codien tablets. (Bad headache from sitting on plane and getting dried out like an Egyptian mummy. Anyway, day one is done,m my preparation is started and I am very excited about what is in store over the next 2 and a half months.
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