People sleepwalk around Dublin

In the mornings, people sleepwalk. On the way to work today, I had to shout a warning at one person and had one other guy jump out of his skin when I went past him as he went to step on to the road. And then, just as I was turning in to work, a guy on a bike was oblivious to me coming the right way down a one way street right at him. Ther must have been something in the air.

On the training side, I picked up a cold on Monday and have been trying to shake it since then. I blame Greg! I haven't managed to get any swimming done this week, but I will be in the pool tonight, come hell or high water. I went to the gym last night with Louise so that go me in the mood to go back.

I'm also expecting a new tri bar any day now to replace the one that I broke a few weeks ago, so it'll be nice to get out cycling again, other than cycling to work.

Running to work

Wow, it's been running week this week. Went for a run on Monday, last night with Waggers and then ran to work this morning. This has been something that I've toyed with since moving into the new house. It's only 10km door to door, so it seemed like a doable distance to me. In the end it took me 47 minutes to make it in, that's with stopping for traffic and dodging people along Abbey Street. I was quite happy with that. This evening it's a gym session and then into town to watch Fiona in the mp3 DJ competition that Phantom FM are hosting.
I have DCPL tomorrow night and then 2 matches on Saturday evening.

Busy busy busy!

Running

Went for a run this evening, just a nice little one, just 12.3km or so. Took me just over 50 minutes to complete. The weather was nice, a little breezy heading south, but a welcome breeze. I felt really good coming back from Bull Island, I think it was the change in wind direction.

Last night I was in the gym doing session two of the Stronglift 5x5 program. Squat, press, deadlift and chins.

Oh, I also paid the last bit of the accomodation costs for the Ironman, and found out that Louise has finally booked a ticket, so she will be there for it too. Only 8 weeks left now!

Hailstones in April!

I went for a run at lunchtime today. About 5 minutes into the run, I was bombarded by hailstones for about 30 seconds. Then it stopped and the sun came back out. It got quite warm after that. I did about 9.5km and it took about 40 minutes.

On the way home, I decided that it would be a good idea to go for a swim for a change. I spent about an hour in the pool, mostly technique and getting a feel for the water back again. Then I did 4x200m to finish off and then home.

Poor week of training

Last week I moved house. Because of that, I didn't get much training in. I only really managed to cycle to work. I had planned to swim a few days, but what with things being moved around and having to tidy up the old house, it didn't happen.

Yesterday we had another match, we played Arva in Belcoo. The weather was horrible. It had changed from warm and sunny to cold and windy. We played with the wind in the first half and were up by a couple of goals at half time. In the second half, the wind seemed to drop and we managed to keep our noses in front. In the end we won handsomely enough by about 9 points or so.

I spent today painting my room, got two coats onto it, but the wallpaper is still showing through. Some more painting tomorrow, I think.

Disaster

I can't believe it. After buying a bike primarily because it had tri bars on it, one of the extensions broke! I was cycling home after the match on Sunday (which we drew, more on that later) and was about half way through when all of a sudden my right arm was waving about in the air. The bar broke at the exact spot where the hole to allow the gear cable in was. I then had no choice but to go the rest of the way on the other side bars, and unable to change the back gears as I needed to.

After examining the bar when I got home, I saw that there seemed to be some sort of damage from before, so I wasn't as strong as I thought I was! I'm going to take some pictures and send them into Syntace and see if they can cut me any sort of deal.

So far this Ironman has cost me a new watch, new bike and now new tri bars!

As for the match, it didn't look like it would be our day again. We were 10 points down with 15 minutes to go before we decided that it would be nice to play. We ended up drawing level and even had a slim chance to win it right at the end. A draw was all we probably deserved, but it was a weird match.