Injury

While training for the Paris marathon in 2007 I developed a knee injury on my right leg, it's back, although this time on my left leg. I went out for a run today and had to stop after a few km. I believe it is Iliotibial band friction syndrome but I will have to get it checked out by someone who knows what they're doing. In the mean time I'm going to stop running for a while and carry on concentrating on my swim which is progressing very well. Due to the snow I haven't been able to get out as much as I would like on the bike so instead I've been doing 2 turbo sessions a week and strength work. There are still 6 months until my first major race next year so hopefully my injury will not set me back too much!

More publicity

Last week I featured in the Bracknell Standard and the Wokingham Standard and this week I appared the Wokingham Times with a similar article. I will be writing regular updates in all three papers. Shown below is the article and top of the back page. The papers are in colour but I could only scan in black and white. Here is a link to the online version of the article:

http://www.getbracknell.co.uk/sport/s/2061987_ironman_jamie_in_training_for_race_of_his_life

November Training

I'm going to post a summary of my training on here each month and a plan for what is next. I'm always loosing my training log so when I look back on here I'll be able to see what I am doing right and what I'm doing wrong.

Swimming

I am currently swimming 4 500m sets along with a warm up and cool down at 10min per 500m pace. I am keeping the pace constant and working on technique and efficiency. Over Novemeber I have noticed it being much easier to maintain this pace and am going to continue swimming 3 times a week working on technique but now focusing on the individual areas of hand entry, catch, pull and recovery. I am not going to try and go fast but I'm hoping that naturally I will get down to 9mins for 500m as 10min pace is already starting to feel too slow.

Cycling

My cycling in November has been limited. I've been on two 50km cycles and a few turbo sessions but I havn't found a good route yet since moving to the area. My plan is to begin to build a base so that I can up the distance next year. I will set one day aside a week to go out on a long cycle of 100km very slowly on my mountain bike, road if it's sunny, and one 2hr strength turbo session. I am also going to ride to at least one swim a week.

Running

My running has been going well. I've been getting out 2 times a week and am going to continue with this. I've been doing one 5km 'sprint' and one long run of however far I fancied ranging from 18km to 24km. I'm going to take a more structured approach in December building distance each week and then dropping it back. 16km, 20km, 28km then drop to an 8km fartlek run.