I'm calling this post the start of the journey since I have decided that my official journey towards my first Ironman 70.3 starts today. 5 months and 16 days (or I seem to be preferring 167 days... maybe because of the bigger number... but I digress) separate me from this event.
Christmas holidays have been good and I start his journey a few kilos heavier then I was beforehand. I'm not bothered as this will be good motivation as I get closer to my goals. Besides, this was planned to keep me warmer during the long winter runs (or so I let myself believe).
So here I am with full of enthusiasm and motivation. I'm pretty sure that my recent IT band issues have been somewhat resolved and that I can get back to training and increasing my volume. I am coming out of a season of bike racing therefore will be gradually increasing my running - not like what I did in the fall that resulted in my IT issues. That famous training line stating : increase 10% per week... Yeah! Lesson learned the hard way.
In other exciting news, I am in the process of building my TT bike : a Prologue Aviation II. Custom bike from Euro-Sports - local bike shop here in Ottawa. I am still undecided if I should be going with Di2 or stick with SRAM Red. The coin is in the air. Decision to follow shortly.
To finish off this first post, here's a brief overview of the plan for the start of the season :
- (Possibly) a winter Triathlon (TBD).
- Ottawa Physio 10k (April 21st)
- Ottawa Race Weekend (May 26th)
- Triathlon du Mont-Tremblant (June 8th)
- We'll see!
