It has been a crazy fortnight since I was last bloggling - in fact I’ve crammed in so much it seems impossible that it was only two weeks ago. After the Worlds in Vancouver I went on holiday in the Rockies for a week, combining a train trip and a road trip to go to places such as Banff and Jasper. It was a great trip and it was nice to leave all my tri kit back in Vancouver and have a complete break from training for a few days (well, I did actually sneak a run in).

I had barely been home and got over my jetlag from Canada when it was time to pack up again and return to Heathrow, this time to fly to Nice to watch my boyfriend Ozzer do Ironman France. Boy what a race that was! It was 30C in the shade come the afternoon, so it was no surprise to see so many people suffering in the heat. Ozzer coped with it all brilliantly to clock an Ironman PB of 11:20. He and several others had been trying to convince me to “go long” next year, but watching that race has put me off it for a long while! I think I’ll keep things short and fast for the time being, although I’m now looking ahead to my first Half Ironman/70.3 in a few weeks. What with so much travelling and holidaying recently, it has been tricky to train consistently, but now I’m back home I should soon be able to get back into my routine. Mind you, right now I’m so frazzled that it feels like I need a holiday to get over my holidays…

Happy training & racing
EK

PS Have included my favourite pic from the race in Vancouver - I absolutely loved riding the Chrono on that bike course!

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