One month to go – self assessment!

Time to reflect, recharge, refocus perhaps, re-engerise, basically do lots of things beginning with ‘re___’, and before you even think of it – I’m not going to retreat, resign or even recant … this time next month to the very hour I will be an Ironman, I will have crossed that line, I will go down the finishing chute all smiles to the crowds be it fast or slow.

At times i feel i’m ready to do it right here right now, other times it puts the fear of god in me, but i need to do this now, and get the last 6 months, nay 12 months of thinking about this one event over and done with. Heck the birth of my kids were all only nine months in the making, and other than a couple of minutes at the start i wasn’t involved too much along the way. With IMDE08, I’ve had a constant presence on my shoulder -

• when I’m not training, I’m thinking about training,
• when I’m not thinking about training, I’m recovering from training
• when I’m not recovering from training, I’m wishing i was training
• when I’m not wishing i was training, I’m training ….

I want to finish now this chapter in my life – hopefully successfully, and then see what i want to do next!

Normal service resumes …

Dear Reader, (both of you)

apologies for leaving you high and dry in the last wee while, it seems that its been nigh on three weeks since my last posting/ramblings on the adventures, trials and tribulations of a wannabe Ironman. I cite in my defence lots of training, and then lots of catching up on Work when i returned (!) a race but most significantly a dropped laptop as my excuse for not giving the world what they wanted and the regular updates on life in the slow’n’steady lane.