I’m taking a little bit of time out from long distance running. I still run ‘a bit’, cycle ‘more than a bit’ and do strength work ‘quite a bit’. For now though my focus is on carving out some kind of goddess like figure for myself for when I go on my hols. Not sure my goal is achievable but I always aim high 🤣. I may have been watching too much love island 🤔.

At the same time I’m leaning towards the idea of an Ironman next year. Not completely decided, but I’ve trained for it twice now, so it would be nice to actually do one. If I could find one later in the year I could get away with waiting until Dec/Jan to start the training. This is quite a nice thought.

In the meantime I’ve started going swimming with my step daughter, once a week. It gets me back in the pool and is a reminder of how much I enjoy it. I’m still not keen on the water sloshing around in my ears. But I do enjoy that feeling you get, when you are gliding through the water with ease. When the stroke is good and you feel like you are cruising and rolling along like a speedy yacht. On an off day it feels more like you are fighting with the pool whilst not getting anywhere quickly. but when it goes right its awesome.

Similarly with strength sessions, you have those where you feel great, feel strong and imagine you could sign up for the next instalment of SAS who dares wins grrrrr. Then there are those sessions where you are grunting like a tennis player, feel like you are going to puke onto someone’s shoes and sweating like a wrestlers jockstrap.

I guess like everything it varies.