Yesterday - Sunday 15th

When you wake up on your day off with the sun peeping through a small gap in the curtains, and no alarm clock has gone off, then you just know for sure that its going to be a good day.  I woke up at 07.40 and was thinking of what we had planned for training today.  Then I could hear a little boy wake up, Charlie is one year old and was doing his version of what sounded like a repeat race commentary that he must have heard while watching Eurosport the previous evening with me.  I listened and laughed and then decided it was time to get out and meet the day.  Eat, pack car, put Charlie into his seat and select music for the short drive to collect Declan before dropping Charlie off at my parents who were going to look after him for the day.  Then is was off to the beach (Donabate) to do a race simulation.

Today it was going to be a race trial as far as the first cut off point on Namdo.

Water conditions were ideal - we're not sure how it will be in race day but today it felt good!  Air temperature was about 19C when we began and then increased to about 23C during the runs. Wearing the wetsuit on the runs was not a problem and we don't think that it will be any warmer than this in September.

Fluid and nutrition  - We used 6 bottles (6x500ml) lucozade energy drink, 2 mars bars, 2 energy gels and water (4x250ml).  No sickness or feeling thirsty so again, it was a positive result.

Declan wore the vibram trek KSO's which he was very pleased with and I wore a pair of Brooks Racer ST3 (lightweight running flat). There were fine to wear in the water, hardly any drag and did not hold water and as a result were not heavy when exiting the water.  Ony slight problem was the grip is not to great when going over rocks so I need to address this issue.

A good days training - no real problems and so looking forward to the last big session next Sunday before we experience OtillO.