My toughest year of sport

I’ve done, well been talked into, a few crazy events in the past few years but this next year is going to beat them all! Seeing as its going to be a toughy I thought I’d keep track of my training, thoughts and feelings as the year progresses.

It started with me deciding that this was going to be the year I’d run the London Marathon in sub 4 hours when a group from work started contemplating the L’Etape du Tour 2008. Contemplation turned from male bravado into a serious challenge when cycles started to be purchased. Considering the timing and type of events it thought I might be able to realise an ambition of completing and Ironman event.

I put the Ironman theory to the L’Etape group and a couple of them expressed an interest. Now if I was to make myself enter the Ironman its likely that I’d just let it pass but with some competition I’m more likely to see it through. You see I’m the type of person that likes the idea of these events but the thought of actually doing them scares the sh1.t out of me. If someone else expresses interest in the same event and pushes me to go for it then I’ll do it, hate it whilst I’m doing it but love it once its done and feel immense satisfaction from completing a challenge that was a dream in my head.