Yay! It's Friday!
It has been a few week and I figured I should get in an additional entry before the end of November! I can't believe Christmas is just around the corner...which means it is 3 weeks till I go to Dubai! Ruthie and I are going to be spending Christmas and New Year together and tearing the town apart! I haven't seen her in over a year and despite many (expensive) phone calls to Dubai it just isn't the same.
Training over the last month has been pretty easy, Rich has been going easy on me and I have actually skipped a couple of sessions which isn't like me at all. I am really taking advantage of being to go out and have a life again. I did mix them up last weekend by having a rather large Saturday night at Fiona and Andrew's engagement party, and then dragged myself out of bed to do 100km Sunday morning on my bike. Punishment and the best way to sweat out a hangover! Was a fantastic ride out to Box Hill in Surrey and back in with 6 of the guys from my club. John had also been out the night before so knew what I was going through! I have to admit I did get home and had to collapse on the sofa for 3 hours.
I have started to put on a bit of weight but there is no way I can maintain my race weight (59kg) when I am not training 20 hours a week and eating and drinking alcohol again. I am up to 61kg but feel great. I have an easy week scheduled for next week and then we start to get started on the decent running in preparation for my next race which is the Valencia marathon on 17th Feb. Rich, Bob and Sam are all doing it too so my goal is to beat all of them!!!!
I am still having problems with my hip flexors so Rich is treating me for that, I only feel the pain when I cycle and it is certainly getting better. I am only out on my bike once a week for a long ride so plenty of time to recover. I have another 2 weeks of swim4tri and that is finished for the year. I love swimming with those guys but it is a Thursday night which is of course the best night to go out during the week! It starts at 8:15 and you don't get out till 10pm so it really is the entire evening. I am sore today, I was really working last night, our main set was 4 laps, rest, 4 laps, rest, 8 laps drills and we repeated that sequence 4 times with the aim of getting faster as the session went on. You time each of the 4 laps so my times were 2:38, 2:35, 2:25, 2:28, 2:28, 2:25, 2:18, 2:20. The 4 laps are across 132 metres.
I met this cute guy on the weekend who I went for a drink with when I got back from Hamburg on Wednesday evening. I was a little taken back when he admitted to having google-stalked me. Now, we all do it, but is it crossing the line and admitting to someone you have google-stalked them? If you do it, you do watch everything you say as to not let them know you know more than they have told you :) I expect people to google-stalk and I am perhaps an easy target with a blog, website, open tagged picture and video galleries but to be told was slightly uncomfortable.
I'm out cycling early tomorrow morning with Rich and then off to Henley to spend the weekend with Leanne. Have a safe and happy weekend.
Carolyn x
PS: I have a counter on the left on the bottom right and with the release of new functionality to the Blogs product I got reset to 0!! I was upto 1000!! Not. Happy. Jan. See video below if you don't know what that phrase means :)
Friday, November 30, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
Back on board
Back on board
I got on my rollers tonight for the first time in months. The great thing is, I can get through 2 episodes in sex in the city and do my workout! I was so shocked I didn't fall off, those things are tough!
Spent the weekend in Padstow for Ellie's birthday. Someone in ticket bookings was having a laugh when they booked 13 people into a quiet carriage on a 4 hour train journey on a Friday night. We did manage to drink the bar dry of wine.
Ellie booked us into Rick Steins seafood restaurant for lunch on Saturday which was gorgeous and.....Jamie proposed in the most romantic way...he gave Ellie a Tiffany's key ring with 'will you marry me' engraved on the back. Imagine 15 people all screaming at once. It was great, the entire restaurant was cheering and clapping.
This isn't the place to talk about what some people got up to but apparently some of my friends secretly favour themselves as pole dancers and some others as cross eyed lesbians. Extreamly entertaining evening.
Sunday was hanging out in the pub curing the hangover with a bloody mary or 2 till the flight back. The B&B Corinna and I stayed in was gorgeous. Such a beautiful place that has recently been done up by the owners Mary & Mike.
Really loving being back training and as always I am amazed at how quickly you can lose fitness. I am running twice a week and cycling once or twice and then lots of flexibility and stretching. I started pilates which I am still not sure of. I have that every Thu lunch so will keep going and see what happens. I sorted out Austria today, Antoinette is coming with me so we have an apartment for the 4 nights we are there. Also booked our ski trip to Austria in Feb. Have to make sure I get in lots of weight work before then and strengthen everything up. I can't afford an injury at the end of Feb.
And finally, this is the message I received from a man on a dating website...Hello Beautiful, how r u today, it would be great to chat, see if we get on. look forward to ur reply. Chou bello.xxx
Carolyn x
I got on my rollers tonight for the first time in months. The great thing is, I can get through 2 episodes in sex in the city and do my workout! I was so shocked I didn't fall off, those things are tough!
Spent the weekend in Padstow for Ellie's birthday. Someone in ticket bookings was having a laugh when they booked 13 people into a quiet carriage on a 4 hour train journey on a Friday night. We did manage to drink the bar dry of wine.
Ellie booked us into Rick Steins seafood restaurant for lunch on Saturday which was gorgeous and.....Jamie proposed in the most romantic way...he gave Ellie a Tiffany's key ring with 'will you marry me' engraved on the back. Imagine 15 people all screaming at once. It was great, the entire restaurant was cheering and clapping.
This isn't the place to talk about what some people got up to but apparently some of my friends secretly favour themselves as pole dancers and some others as cross eyed lesbians. Extreamly entertaining evening.
Sunday was hanging out in the pub curing the hangover with a bloody mary or 2 till the flight back. The B&B Corinna and I stayed in was gorgeous. Such a beautiful place that has recently been done up by the owners Mary & Mike.
Really loving being back training and as always I am amazed at how quickly you can lose fitness. I am running twice a week and cycling once or twice and then lots of flexibility and stretching. I started pilates which I am still not sure of. I have that every Thu lunch so will keep going and see what happens. I sorted out Austria today, Antoinette is coming with me so we have an apartment for the 4 nights we are there. Also booked our ski trip to Austria in Feb. Have to make sure I get in lots of weight work before then and strengthen everything up. I can't afford an injury at the end of Feb.
And finally, this is the message I received from a man on a dating website...Hello Beautiful, how r u today, it would be great to chat, see if we get on. look forward to ur reply. Chou bello.xxx
Carolyn x
Friday, November 2, 2007
Here we go again...
Here we go again...
I met with Rich, my coach, on Wednesday night to go through a rough plan in order to qualify for Hawaii next year. Bad news is I am going to have to pull 2 stellar performances out of the bag which means 2 peaks. 1 in Austria in July and another in Florida in November. At least I have the experience now and they are far enough apart we can plan for it.
There is certainly something odd about a coach and athlete meeting up to talk strategy for an Ironman season...and drinking 4 pints in the process :) Rich has been off the booze for about 5 years and me for about 6 months (that is the Aussie equivalent of 5 years). I don't this is going to make it into the training plan for next year!
We have agreed I will start light training again next week, I am still not back on my feet after Hawaii so need a bit more rest. Winter is going to be focused on building strength and endurance and a marathon in Feb with a 3:15 aim. I need to be doing those sorts of times in IM, so if I can do it in a straight marathon in the pre season it puts me in a good position to achieve a 3:20ish in Austria.
I started swimming last night with the swim for tri guys which I love. It is the ideal swim session for me because I get the social aspect but am also put against people of the same ability. I am pleased to say that I was moved up to a faster lane last night so something went right in all the km's I have swum this year!
I am planning on getting back out on the bike with the Ironhead guys on the 17th November. I cycled over to Netball this week and there is still some deep pain in my hip flexors. Just takes time to heal. Netball is going great, we play the final next week and we are miles ahead in points so we have already won the comp regardless of next weeks result. We have had a really fantastic season with some really strong players. We have been lucky that w have been able to draft in people like Stephanie and Jen who were both state players back in Aus when we needed to have someone to fill in.
I have also come out of denial about my upcoming 30th in Jan 08 and have booked myself a flight to Rome to spend it there with a few close friends. I couldn't think of a better place to be, great food, wine and wonderful sights. I have been to Rome 4 times now so I don't feel any pressure to do lots of sightseeing. just relax and take it all in. There will of course be a big party in London too!
Having dinner with Fiona tonight, her and Andrew got engaged last week which is just wonderful. They make such a fantastic couple. I have started calling her sparkles due to all the diamonds dripping off her. Andrew bought her a diamond watch for her bday and then a gorgeous engagement ring a few days later. Lucky girl ;)
The channel 4 Sherborne show is on at 8:25 on Sunday so might get to see some shots of me. Not sure what they are planning in terms of a lead in to the Kona show which is next and is the one about me. Have to wait and see! Have a great weekend!
C x
I met with Rich, my coach, on Wednesday night to go through a rough plan in order to qualify for Hawaii next year. Bad news is I am going to have to pull 2 stellar performances out of the bag which means 2 peaks. 1 in Austria in July and another in Florida in November. At least I have the experience now and they are far enough apart we can plan for it.
There is certainly something odd about a coach and athlete meeting up to talk strategy for an Ironman season...and drinking 4 pints in the process :) Rich has been off the booze for about 5 years and me for about 6 months (that is the Aussie equivalent of 5 years). I don't this is going to make it into the training plan for next year!
We have agreed I will start light training again next week, I am still not back on my feet after Hawaii so need a bit more rest. Winter is going to be focused on building strength and endurance and a marathon in Feb with a 3:15 aim. I need to be doing those sorts of times in IM, so if I can do it in a straight marathon in the pre season it puts me in a good position to achieve a 3:20ish in Austria.
I started swimming last night with the swim for tri guys which I love. It is the ideal swim session for me because I get the social aspect but am also put against people of the same ability. I am pleased to say that I was moved up to a faster lane last night so something went right in all the km's I have swum this year!
I am planning on getting back out on the bike with the Ironhead guys on the 17th November. I cycled over to Netball this week and there is still some deep pain in my hip flexors. Just takes time to heal. Netball is going great, we play the final next week and we are miles ahead in points so we have already won the comp regardless of next weeks result. We have had a really fantastic season with some really strong players. We have been lucky that w have been able to draft in people like Stephanie and Jen who were both state players back in Aus when we needed to have someone to fill in.
I have also come out of denial about my upcoming 30th in Jan 08 and have booked myself a flight to Rome to spend it there with a few close friends. I couldn't think of a better place to be, great food, wine and wonderful sights. I have been to Rome 4 times now so I don't feel any pressure to do lots of sightseeing. just relax and take it all in. There will of course be a big party in London too!
Having dinner with Fiona tonight, her and Andrew got engaged last week which is just wonderful. They make such a fantastic couple. I have started calling her sparkles due to all the diamonds dripping off her. Andrew bought her a diamond watch for her bday and then a gorgeous engagement ring a few days later. Lucky girl ;)
The channel 4 Sherborne show is on at 8:25 on Sunday so might get to see some shots of me. Not sure what they are planning in terms of a lead in to the Kona show which is next and is the one about me. Have to wait and see! Have a great weekend!
C x
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