I’ve been training pretty hard this week and am aching all over from a fairly lengthy run last night but it’s all been worth it.

I had to go for a medical so I could get membership at my local swimming pool and pay greatly reduced costs for swimming. I went along to the same clinic I used when I had to have my medical for my job at 91.5FM and they still had my details on record.

They re-weighed me and, to my pleasant surprise, I’d lost 6.5kg in the last 7 months or so – not a huge amount but still fairly significant.

I also believe my muscle mass is significantly greater than it was back then and, as they say, muscle weighs more than fat, so happy days!

Still couldn’t break that blasted 32 minute barrier for the 1.8km swim but I will persevere and get it down to 30mins before November…..

I put in a good stint on the road yesterday, runnning 14km in a fairly decent time – definitely helped by running with music although I think I have buggered up my headphones….

A well deserved rest today before a bike ride tomorrow, weather permitting…..

Hi everyone,
Last time I blogged on here I was heading to the Navrang Mahal restaurant in Karon for an all you can eat curry buffet – not really the diet of an aspiring triathlete…..

So in preparation of that I got the bike out in the afternoon and tackled the hills of Layan once again and put in a good 40km stint. I got chronic cramp after the hills which might suggest that I took them too quickly – lesson learned….

Saturday was a day of rest (and little booze) but I was back in the pool on Sunday, clocking a 32min 1,800m swim which was disappointing.

I figured a change of tack was needed in my swim training so I mixed it up a bit on the Monday, opting for a 1km warm up and then some shorter distances at quicker speeds – maybe I’ll see an improvement on Friday.

Yesterday meant getting back on the bike and riding with my mate Steve. Blokes being blokes it got pretty competitive and we did a 30km course in just over 1 hour.

Today is likely to be a rest day as I’m feeling pretty tired, but maybe I’ll go for a swim….

So hopefully I’ve burned off all those curry calories just in time for the weekend again……

See you next time

One of the best/worst things about living in Phuket is the number of outstanding eateries and many of them tempt you with offers of ‘all you can eat’ for not a lot of money….

Tonight is curry night at the Navrang Mahal Restaurant in Karon and as a Brit, I love a good ruby.

So I can enjoy myself tonight, I went for a 13km run last night and will go for a 40km+ ride over the hills from Laguna to Nai Thon – they are horrendous….

I’ll swim once over the weekend but other than that I’ll relax and take it easy – rest is very important too

Cheers,
Danny O

Apologies, folks, I have been a bit lapse of late with posting on here.

It’s been a hectic month or so with friends arriving, my birthday being celebrated and more so exercise unfortunately has take a bit of a back step, although in the last few weeks I have gotten back into good habits.

In the last week I’ve trained pretty well, but I’ve also been ill. Going back to last Tuesday, I did a 32km bike ride followed by a 6km run which felt pretty comfortable. I then followed that up the next day with a 3km swim, broken up into various distances.

Thursday consisted of a 8km jog around parts of Bang Tao before another 3km swimming session on Friday.

Saturday was the most pleasing of all my recent sessions. I decided that I needed to tackle the hills from Laguna to Nai Thon – the part of the triathlon which has worried me the most – and nailed the mothers! I think I covered the majority of the Laguna Triathlon bike course and made pretty decent time too so happy days.

Sunday and Monday were washed out as I had a dose of food poisoning and any exercise was impossible.

Hope to get back on the bike this afternoon and maybe run a little bit afterwards – see what energy levels are like….

More coming up soon.
Cheers,
Dan