My show is on Channel 4 tomorrow!!

My show is on Channel 4 tomorrow!!
My show goes out tomorrow on channel 4, I haven't seen anything yet so it is all a little scary. Hope I don't come across as arrogant or over confident. Nothing I can do about it now ;) It is also on at the very sociable time of 5:45am!!! Means I can watch it and then do some training so not all will be lost. If you miss it, email me at ironcaro@aol.com and I will send you a copy of the DVD. Maraka has kindly offered to set her DVD recorder for me.

I got all motivated to write in my blog watching a show on 'Girl with a One Track Mind' a sex blog about a woman's sexual exploitations in London. http://girlwithaonetrackmind.blogspot.com/ Interesting how the media went after these women to unmask them. I guess for me blogging was never about remaining anonymous, I guess I am to some people who read this, but it started as a place for my friends to keep up with what was going on in my life. I found some printed copies of the emails I used to send home to everyone when I first came to England almost 6 years ago. I will post some of them in here. Ruth and I really did get ourselves into some funny situations.

I heard back form the US insurance company and they are rejecting my claim from going to hospital in Kona because they don't cover dehydration. Despite drinking a litre an hour, it is my fault. Not so sure what to do. I will go back to my health and also travel insurance companies and see what they suggest. Might be a tough one to work out and I certainly don't want to pick up the $2k bill!

I am getting back into my training. I ran this morning and it was the first training session since the world champs in October where I have felt that fired up and really wanted to go nail my session. Almost like the batteries are truly recharged. It was exactly what I needed, to get my teeth back into it and my head around that I didn't have my best race in Hawaii. I still spend a lot of time thinking about where it went wrong and have come to the point where I can be subjective and accept that it was a great achievement to get there in the first place. It is always hard to accept as an achievement what I had previously considered a failure. My respect and perspective on triathlon has changed, I hope it serves me well in the future.

My triathlon club, IronHead Racing http://www.ironheadracing.co.uk/ is moving ahead in leaps and bounds. I am really excited about the future of the club and honoured Dan and Rich have asked me to help them take the club forward. Next step is to become members of the British Triathlon Association and Cycling Time Trial group and bring some new members in. I am very much up for the challenge!

I have been dating someone. I have no idea if he reads this so I will keep it brief :) I have been emailing him from my personal email account which has the link to my blog in the auto signature so I am guessing he knows it exists. The great news is, he is into triathlon, running marathons and has some great connections. VIP tickets to see the Kaiser Chiefs Friday night. Yippee!!

I am off to Dubai next week to see Ruthie. Can't wait!!! It is going to be so great, and warm weather will be such a treat. Of course there will be luxury of training in a 50m pool. What a treat! One of the guys at work pointed out I am the only person he knows who would be excited about a 50m pool :)

Have a wonderful and safe Christmas.

Love Carolyn x