HTFU!
“I know it’s late, but I’m really sorry ……..you see I’ve been so busy”
It’s not good really is it? You promise to do something for somebody & then you don’t do it on time….I hate that don’t you? So, sorry – mea culpa, no excuses. Honest.
However I have an excuse. This IM training is bloody hard. Work has been busy this week, but as my mate Ian says – you have two choices in this game. And one involves giving up & going home. In other words you have to knuckle down & crack on. The term he uses is HTFU. H stands for Harden. T stands for The. U stands for Up. You can guess what the F stands for.
So sorry the blog is late — but at least it’s done!
And talking about the blog, it seems that we’ve got a bit of a following. I’ve been inundated with literally one e-mail from a reader. Good on yer Dan – I’ll see you at the Ballbuster this year (but please turn the heating on!) Sorry private Dan / Simon joke.
Anyway, what’s been going on this week? Well a pretty tough training week really, the highpoint (or low point) being a 100 mile ride at the weekend. Nothing too spectacular or out of the ordinary in the grand scheme of things, but this turned out to be a real cow. As they say, we had a bad day at the office.
The main problem was the rain. You know when it rains persistently – not necessarily heavily, but constant, unrelenting and strength sapping. The kind of stuff that soaks you to the skin, literally. Me and the guys (4 of us) set off at 6-30 in the morning. We’d all dressed in our wet weather gear but the bloomin’ stuff just wormed its way through. So when Mark got a puncture and we stopped moving we nearly froze to the spot. Horrible.
Although Ian wasn’t with us, he was in spirit. Imagine this strange site – 4 guys drenched to the bone, struggling against a headwind all repeating a mantra, all nearly in unison… “HTFU, HTFU, HT…..” Eventually we made it home after 6 and a bit hard hours in the saddle. Joy! Wet gear off, towelled down and…. running kit on for a 45 minute run!
By the time I got home proper, over 7 hours from leaving it I was gasping for a beer. Pity that I’ve given it up isn’t it!! Still Tetley’s hasn’t tasted so good!
See you next week – I’ll let you know how I got in Sunday’s half Ironman – another training race.
Cheers
Simon
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