Week 9

So, only 2 weeks of the base phase left. Bit daunting but have purposefully not looked at what is in store day by day in the Build Phase. Crossing bridges when we come to it and all that.

Rest day on Monday was welcome and woke up on Monday morning with cold no. 2 of the IM plan. How annoying. It doesn't seem to be too bad and certainly not as bad as the December one. Have avoided the swim so far this week but tested the water with a run last night and felt OK. My friend and (old Ranelagh sparring partner, Jo, was over from Boston for a few days so we went for our first run together in about 6 years. It was great. The hour flew as we didn't stop talking and we think we did about 8 miles. Awesome. The really great news is that, after all this time, she is moving back to Blighty and is going to live in Windsor so am very excited about that. She's already talking about more triathlons so plenty of opportunity to lead her astray!