It's All About the Snow, Ice and Chocolate!

Belated Merry Christmas to you all, hope Santa was kind!

Since my last post my training levels, in all 3 disciplines, have increased steadily. I'm now training without any hindrance or repercussions from my operation, which is encouraging to say the least. I'm now just conscious of pushing too hard, too soon and picking up any 'over use' niggles and tweaks.

I've still not settled in to any kind of set training plan yet, I'm just training by how I feel and trying to edge up the mileage to the levels I can realistically call 'base miles'! This has not been easy on the bike with all this flipping snow and ice around. All this time off work and the weather conditions are keeping me off the roads...typical! I find it hard work putting in long rides on the turbo. My turbo is set up in the garage and while it's still freezing, it's the boredom factor that is my worst enemy! But watching a DVD helps, and I've found that '300' is the best for a long ride! I've also been doing my 'strength workout' cycling DVD which was a present from Santa and it's a real quad buster! I've also managed to get a bit of weight training and core strength work in at the gym.

Running wise, I'm up to runs of over an hour around the frozen fields and lanes, and a bit of long intervals on the treadmill from time to time, and now that my local pool has reopened after an unreasonably long festive break (how very dare they!) I can now crack on with more drills work in the wet stuff.

After this week I'll start a more regimented training plan for the remainder of the winter which will be centered around building more bike strength ready for a summer of lovely weather and enjoyable racing...well that's the plan anyway.

Until then I need to find some will power from somewhere to stop me from eating my own weight in chocolate every day!!

Train smart. Enjoy the rest of the year!