So now I’m in ‘tapering’ mode.. I think I started out with this! So less mileage, just 10m at the weekend, and a couple of 3m this week. Tapering also means you should eat less as your body doesn’t need so much. This bit is hard to grasp

Yesterday I attended a Tri Training Day and it was brill. Kept waking up in the night smiling We did practise transition (the most complicated bit), swimming and rode the 20k course. I’ve now entered Blackwater tri too in September, and club duathlon in the summer sometime.

Thanks to OH for tri pants and Son for tri top for slightly early birthday present. I look the part.. now… to be able to do it!

So one week to go, not yet a time to reflect, but the worry still of the pitstops. I’m now on over-active thyroid tablets, but low dose, which should help sort me out.. but it’s quite a stressful situation

A short note on SOME of the things that annoy me when street running:

• dog sh1t on the pavement
• car doors that open on the pavement
• 5 people walking 5-wide across the pavement so I have to run round them in the road – I actually had a go at them on one of my runs.. they weren’t english… but they understood the signal.. well, I did say ‘excuse me’ first
• people with pushchairs that go right in the middle of a slim pavement
• other runner’s ignoring me, and not saying ‘good morning’
• free newspaper delivery guys that leave their cart in the middle of the pavement

So, 6 days to go… eeekkk.. sponsorship’s doing very well thank you everyone! Concentrate on sleep, and eating patterns… that’s the priority this week.