David Killen Goes Long

A fairly hectic week, lots of what I hope was good quality training, some not so good quality eating and a bit of work posing for shots to advertise the Bupa 10km run!  Delighted the hour has gone forward although the fact that I was up at 0620 yesterday morning (0520 old time) meant the spin out to follow the Vets race in Batterstown was savagely cold with the hands nearly falling off me by the time I got there…anyway to go back a few days first.  Somehow Fergus, Moody and I were roped into doing a photo shoot with Mary Cullen for the Bupa 10km with us in full RNLI gear.  Moody was initially not overly keen until he was told there is a chance some of these shots might end up in the papers… meetings were quickly re organized allowing him time to turn up!  All I can say about the whole thing is Poor Mary…

I think the three of us will be running Bupa wearing a slightly lighter version of the gear though how I managed to get myself into this is still beyond me.. it was actually a bit embarrassing (not just the photos as you can clearly see) as when we turned up Mary was under the impression that we were actual lifeboat crew.. Obviously not the case.

On the training front, the volume currently is resulting in my having to eat like a horse.  Most packets of pasta say on them that the will serve 2-3 people.  This is now a nonsense as one packet would barely count as a snack and need to be accompanied by at least a couple of steaks or chicken breasts.  However, the old sweet tooth is a bit of a problem and I have developed a worrying taste for chocolate milk.  If I start on the swiss rolls (mood dog) I will be in real trouble.  Cycled out to batterstown yesterday to follow the Vets race.. hung about the back of the first group with Conor for the three laps although not sure that the Vets were too happy about us being there.  One fella did say to me I looked very young to be racing vets.. we managed to stay out of the actual racing and then headed back home afterwards.  All in it was a good spin (140km or so) and that was followed by a run later that afternoon.  Much food consumed last night.

Really looking forward to Fergus & Sinead’s engagement party this Saturday night in Harrys (Clontarf) where it’s a long day of Rugby followed by party at 1900hrs!!!  Have a long swim to get through this eve (3.2km) and about 5 hours on the bike before then but with the weather improving that could actually be a nice spin.  Getting serious flack from Moody who in fairness to him is pretty good at this blog business but he is giving me some pointers which I think could help out… lets wait and see.

Totally worn out (as I guess I should be on an easy week).  Last three weeks training are below….to give you an idea of the volume currently.  Instead of the long 5 hr ride on sat I ended up doing an open race in Dunboyne with Ger, Mark and Robert.  Mark rode with the A,B riders while Ger Rob and I rode with the Cs and Vets… of course the pace from the get to was nuts and I ended up getting dropped coming out of a corner… good thing too as there was a decent crash later on which I surely would have been involved in given my bike skills… still, racing the bike is bound to improve my triathlon times.  Have today off, and then heading to France tomorrow so training wise it will be cross counrty ski for a couple of days with running in the evening.