A lot has been happening over the last few months. I have moved my business from LA Fitness in the City to a private studio in London. I have also been personal training with clients in the Surbiton, Esher and Kingston areas PLUS training very hard for the London Triathlon.

I am in a relay team and I have the 10km run to do. Most of you realize that 10 km is not going to be a struggle for me as I have done marathons and half marathons before. But having to run a 10km fast has taken a lot of training (and a lot of injuries too). I’ve used treadmills early in the year a getting my time down to 45 minutes. I then picked up a hip injury (of all things!)… Flu… Stomach problems.

3 months later I started again. My 10 km time was back to 55 mins and my runs had to be limited to 2 a week so I didn’t over do the hip. For the past 4 weeks I have introduced cycling back into my training and all of a sudden I’m running sub 50 mins! On the day I should get close to 45 mins. There is nothing like a bit of cross training to help things along.

So with 6 days to go the training is coming to an end. I will run twice and cycle twice more and have a full day rest before the start on Saturday 4 August.

For the next six weeks this blog is going to concentrate on Functional strength training…

Till the next time…

Carry on training

Paul