Windsor Triathlon training: Week One

I went to support the runners at Reading Half Marathon yesterday. It was a lovely day, perfect for running. Once again my entry lay unused back home.

Now I don't want to take it away from any of the runners as there were some awesome performances especially Mel's brother in law who after injury last year is well on track to his goal at the Brighton Marathon.

Factoid: I've DNS'd more running races than I've started in the past 3 years. On occasion it's not been entirely my fault, but the majority of the missed races have been because of injury. I never see to do well in winter training.

After getting a sports massage from Cee Fee Dunn (@ceefeedunn on Twitter: for all your PT and sports massage needs... Hey I must be on commission by now :-).... Maybe not) she noted that all the work I'd done pre Ironman had unravelled due to my inactivity when I was ill in the autumn. I need to work to get my glutes firing properly and get my thoratic region working again.

I also realised that it was 12 weeks until my main race of the year Windsor Triathlon. So now's a good time to put the official training plan together. Here's the lowdown:

I plan to finish in less than 2 hours 30 minutes. Last year I did 2hr36. Let down by the run, I plan to practise more running, but obviously need to be injury free.

Other factors include:

- Weight. I'm at 12st2 (77kg) and want to be 11st4 by Windsor. Is this possible while increasing strength? 1lb a week max should be doable.
- Diet. Not reducing anything but I'm cutting out cake and similar, and swapping coffee for green tea.
- Training: I've a wonderfully understanding Wifey who does let me train, but the other girl in my life is rather demanding so it's all about short sharp training sessions.

So week one, I'm planning two runs, two cycles, a swim and lots of stretching and foam rolling. One run is this Sunday I'm jogging around one lap of the Kingston Breakfast run. That should be enough for this week.

As the weeks go by I'll blog updates. Any tips, advice would be greatly appreciated.