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Wednesday 7 April 2010

It's all about the bike!

So, I don't know any triathlon or cycling blog that doesn't use that title at some point! This play on the words of the infamous title of Lance Armstrong's book is now prolific in the consciousness of people training for crazy biking challenges! In this case, it is about the bike. A very beautiful new bike complete with blue Kona flowers that has been leant to me by a local MK distributor (http://www.multisportdistribution.co.uk/) of Blue Competition Cycles. Our local bike shop, Corley Cycles, sponsors a team who are utilising Blue Competition Cycles and Fusion clothing and I watched the team clean up at the first of the Big Cow duathlons a couple of months ago. The bike is beautiful and I am so looking forward to getting out on it after the stupid marathon is done! Maybe it will finally inspire me to become a great cyclist or at least enjoy getting out there a bit more. Either way, I'm going to look a lot smarter come August! :)

Speaking of the marathon, it is driving me nuts! I have true taper madness (a phenomena that sets in for all people training for the marathon in the last few weeks before the race where they have to fully cut back on training and starting feeding their faces with carbs!) which is making me grumpy, sluggish, lethargic and generally cursing the marathon daily. It is exasperated by reading the forums (http://www.tritalk.co.uk/) and seeing quite how much stuff other people are doing while I am confined to the sofa! I am starting to panic slightly about my lack of biking and am planning to hit it hard starting Monday, well, maybe Tuesday, hmmmm, or Wednesday! I would absolutely love to go sub-4 in the marathon and plan to race as hard as I can even though I should be not knackering myself (it's only supposed to be a 'B' race!) because I would love to get the season off to a great start and a sub-4 would fill me with confidence. I know I have done slightly less training than I would have ideally especially because of the need to cross-train and I know it will be close on the day. A hypotherapist friend has got me doing positive mantras on a daily basis and really all I can do now is relax, be confident in the training I have done and give it all on the day. Fingers crossed for me please!!

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