Troon to Stirling

A busy week this week for training & competing - we managed a superb bike out to Troon & back on Monday in the blazing sunshine. Nice lunch on the beach!! We both felt comfortable even after the 2 hour run on Sunday and covered about 100 miles we think & squeezed out a short run afterwards. The run wasn't too bad despite the heat but it may have been because we knew it was short one as opposed to looking down the barrel of a marathon. Need to do a few more of these big bike to runs over the summer. It definately helps when the weather is nice - you actually look forward to it rather than it being a drag.

Tues Gym & swim in the morning followed by the St Christies TT in the evening. No other Tri Club members there apart from us & Ben? Where were you all? A really nice evening but still windy. We held our times despite the big workout the previous day so both fairly happy with that.

The Wednesday Club swim was great as always, good to see newcomer Malcom at the swim - a shock to the system the 1st time but he is definately going to benefit from this session, as we all are.

Thurs was the Harriers monthly 5k Time Trial. I felt rubbish all day but much better standing on the start line & recorded a 17.53 PB (for this course) & was quickest on the night so quite pleased.

Friday Gym & Swim again & now nothing but early nights till we have to get up super early on Sunday for Stirling Tri. Looking at both our results for last year I am sure we can improve on every section. We had better go faster given all this bloody training! We have our targets but I am not commiting them to print quite yet!

Rouken Glen 10k next Thurs which is going to interfere with the Thursday run group so watch this space & we are still hoping for a trip to Loch Lomond next Friday evening for an open water swim.
Details to follow but I hope we can pull this together & repeat it through the summer.
See lots of you at Stirling on Sunday!!