Rookie Goes for The ‘Treble’ @ IMUK Week 1 of 40
Arite?
How’s Tricks?
I’ve got some news…..
I’m going again….
Ironman UK for the third time in a row like…..
Why?
I’ll tell you for why…
I fukin love it.
That’s why…
I’m addicted.
Further, there is a certain romance about someone who never believed IMUK ‘would be possible’ going on to do it 3 times in a row in consecutive years don’t you think?
More importantly, I am absolutely loving my training at the moment.
I’m loving it more than ever.
And i’m learning things.
New things that I want to share with you.
I know you have missed my little updates.
And I have missed you too…
I am literlally bursting with things that I want to tell you about right now.
But more on that later…
I have worked out that there are exactly 40 weeks until IMUK in 2019.
40 weeks.
So here is what is going to happen..
The weekly updates are going to return every Sunday starting as of now.
Always remember that I am just a regular bloke exactly like you with a bird who moans at me all the time and a 4 year old and a stressful job and a big mortgage and bills and debts and mates who want me to go out on the piss with them instead of training but 2 years ago I completed an Impossible dream at Ironman UK and now find myself addicted to it whilst at the same time trying to ‘do the right thing’ in all those other areas listed above….
That said, I feel like my Ironman journey has now ‘evolved.’
Let me explain…
First time round, you don’t believe you can ‘do it’……. so simply ‘getting round’ is all you are bothered about and as far as you are concerned Ironman UK is something you will only ever do ‘once.’
However, once you experience it’s magic on race day, Ironman UK has got you for life.
Second time round, I didn’t really train properly, entered right at the last minute and ‘winged it’ to be perfectly honest with you
Third time round, and it all feels very different.
The penny has finally dropped.
Of course, it’s all about race day and the sensation you will experience by ‘racing’ in front of thousands of wonderful supporters, many of whom believe that what you are doing would never be possible for them.
But it’s also about something else…
It’s about this…
Training for Ironman is an absolutely amazing way to live you life on a daily basis.
I repeat….
Training for Ironman is an absolutely amazing way to live you life on a daily basis.
Make no mistake, I continue to battle my demons, and that will become very apparent as we move through the process.
But how has your journey ‘evolved’ Rookie?
I’ll tell you how…
Right now, I am having a lot of fun with the Ironman bike circuit – trying to get my loop time down like.
To give you an example of what we are talking about here, throughout 2018 my circuit times peppered the 3:15/3:20 mark.
I recently got that down to 2:41.
And you know the best bit?
I don’t even feel like I have scratched the surface with it yet.
Over the next few weeks I will share with you the many things I have learned so far and comment on my journey as it further ‘evolves.’
For now though, here is how my trainin went this week:
Monday : Pool Mile
Tuesday : On the piss celebrating getting a new job
Wednesday : On the Piss celebrating a new job
Thursday : Pool Mile
Friday : Weights Set in Gym
Saturday : 2:48 Sole IMUK loop which I was really chuffed with given the debauchery of the week
Sunday : Day off
Current Weight 14/2 – (Pathetic)
Don’t Miss Next Sunday….Part one of how Rookie got his 2018 IMUK bike loop down from 3:20 to 2:41…
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