In the intervening months I have almost moved to a small hebridean island, started volunteering at a horse sanctuary and now am living the dream in a small northern town.
Due to the move and life getting in the way training dropped off (erm sort of stopped) with it becoming patchy.
Got back to the Gym at the beginning of December and hated it with a passion. Then foolishly, I accidentally entered my first triathlon. Well as accidentally as you can do it, and no I wasn't drunk ... the theory being that if I have a date, I need to get training.
Which it has. Over the last 5 days I have trained un 4 of them, including two pool sessions and two lots of running. It hurts. A lot. And the next day you get up and start all over again. 3 months of this ..eek.
So why Mmmbop. well like any good scholar I have been doing my research about triathlons and came across something interesting. There are different levels of triathlon with the top one being the Ironman. This is pain on a epic scale.
Roughly it consists of 3.8k swim, 180k bike ride and then a marathon. One after another. In under 17 hours.
Those who have completed it like to adorn themselves with a badge of honour, which is the M Dot. It is the Ironman logo.
So why do I care. I dont. Sort of.
Imagine this scenario, an unruly class is messing about the teacher threatens to give them a test if they don't behave. Out of the 30 students 29 will be dreading a test, yet one will want to take it, to test themselves.
A lone voice against the sanity peddled by others.
Some where inside of me is this class. 99% of me looks at an M Dot and thinks yeah that's nice.
But I am never going to get one.
Yet...
yet..
somewhere is a quiet voice saying "yes I would love one".
Reality strikes ...
I wonder if they do fake transfer ones ...
Music Corner
The only way I can get through some of the runs is to listen to decent music. So each week I will bring you one Tuuuuuuuuuuuunnnneee that has eased my misery.
This week it has been Apollo 440 - Odessa Dubstep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjZEXIvQz-0
Please if you have any recommendations for Tuuuunes to run to I am all ears ...
Apologies for lack of funny stuff but this is the first week so breaking you in gently.
Next week I will do better.
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