Eye on the ball..........

This week brings the beginning of spring...the days begin to warm and maggies begin to stamp their authority on unsuspecting cyclist.
Finding a balance between home, work and training up to this point in time has been an interesting challenge, however, the focus has returned. The consistency has returned through an improved commitment to the training, and to be honest I am enjoying the challenges the training brings at the moment.
The enjoyment has come from a number of success over the past couple of weeks of training:

1. Northlakes 10km Fun Run - This was a PB for me (42:21), one that has not been broken for 10 years and was broken by a 'cool' 50seconds. The course was a not a flat one and from about 6km was quite hilly. A good 4:15 average for the 10 km's was very positive the Heart was thumping and was working hard particularly up the hills. Still looking for a bit more strength out of those legs....but it was a great race.......a success!
2. Tuesday night at swimming was a 3.8km set with the main set of 15 x 100m which was hard work but was able to keep between 1m32s-1m34s for the 15 x 100m. Was really happy with this session. The swimming was coming back!!
3. Thursday night was another 3.5km set.....plenty of swimming under the belt this week. Before this session I spent 10-15min running up and down the stair at the pool and found it was a great warm-up.....IT GOT my LEG moving..in the pool....(un-heard of!!!) the kick has been more consistent in the pool of late. The other positive element to the session was starting the session with an elevated heart rated.
4. TODAY.....a different man....who would have thought a couple of weeks ago I would have run 16km before a race, then to come out and smash 10km in round 43min then run a further 9km to get home....a grand total of 35k for the day. Then into the ice bath...well geeze...I think that was more painful then the 35k I ran today....it was cold. The run is coming together.

It is now 5 weeks out from Gold Coast Half Ironman and things have begun to fall into place.
If it is to be...it's up to me!!
This is going to be my personal training philosophy for the next 5 weeks and beyond. For me to achieve my goal for GCHIM it is up to me....not to look back but to look forward to the next 5 weeks of training and to fire up to focus on the task at hand.