Training is going well now. I’ve gathered some decent mileage in the last week, and am keeping to my revised training plan now. With twelve weeks to go I am upping the anti with some serious interval training, varying the speed and distances significantly. This definitely improving my aerobic capacity, the bursts are getting longer and more regular.

I picked up our tent and some sundry equipment yesterday, the kids and I spent a few minutes pole fighting before pegging it out last night, we spent a cosy night in the wilderness of our back garden, and one of our feathered friends gave it a blessing which is always appreciated.

Back to work with more training to follow this evening.

I’m sorry it has taken so long but I’ve finally blogged. My work ethic seems to have ignored my life needs, but hey we’ll address that later, and let’s not get any psychotherapists excited about any of my ‘issues’.

I wrote a training plan at Christmas but have achieved only half of my goals thus far. According to the schedule I should be doing forty miles twice a week, but I’d be lucky to get one session of twenty in, let alone doing four times that. Still we are gaining hours of light by the day and I’ll soon get in the groove.

Most of my training has been indoors with the cross trainer, hoovering, lifting cans of lager and opening wine bottles amongst other key life critical activities, its cold outside and it gets cold and wet outside and it often gets colder and wetter outside.Don’t get me wrong, I have done some proper stuff too, I’ve been swinging about in tree’s, chasing lawnmower’s and I’ve been working on equipment pricing etc, but I do need to knuckle down, and get some serious mileage in.

The last twenty mile burn resulted in a bike overhaul with new pedal plates and some serious language encouragement. That aside, I am still very excited about the forthcoming adventure and will post another blog soon.