Category: Ironman Nice

Market Bosworth and the Dragon Ride gave me a psychological boost for the swim and cycle legs. Tonight I needed to do the same for the run.

It’s fair to say that thought of swimming doesn’t exactly fill me with joy, let alone getting up at 6.10 and driving for an hour to a lake in the middle of nowhere to do it!

An Ironman is three separate events but in Nice there is going to be a fourth challenge – Heat. Acclimatisation training is a vital part of the build up to the event but not easy to do in mild England temperatures.

Time to put on the budgie smugglers, find some water and go for a leisurely dip. If only open water swimming were that simple.

I’m entering the final month in the lead up to the Ironman and tonight I put in my best training run yet.