Life of Iron

I had plenty of good intentions for this year: recover, rebuild and get plenty of buildup races in. The problem is, it hasn't quite worked out that way.

This was my third attempt at this race and the conditions could not have been any better, but I was worried about a foot injury I'd sustained a couple of weeks before race day.

Once again I've made a stupid decision in training and caused myself an injury, and this time it's getting awfully close to race day.

It's easy to get so caught up in the swim / bike / run training that you forget all the little things that can make a difference to your race experience.

For the second time in a row I've managed to catch a cold in summer so I've had a bit of a forced break from training.

It's supposedly Summer but I haven't seen it yet. We've only had a couple of good warm days so far and I'm hoping it's not the beginning of crappy weather for the whole season.

I've just gone up to a new age-group so my wife shouted me (well, us) a trip overseas to celebrate. She said I could choose a race and I decided on doing the half at the Melbourne Marathon.

For the past couple of years I've been pushing against a barrier with my swimming but some changes I've made to my technique recently have paid dividends.