One of the hardest things for anyone training for events like Celtman is trying to do it around family life and other commitments. With 4 of the li'l buggers in my house this becomes a real issue to work around.
Luckily Claire's happy to help so Friday saw her taking them all in the car along to the gym whilst I decided to brave the snow and head over there on my MTB.
Actually not too bad a ride all in all, and as I said a quick 3 mile TT fitted in around kiddywinks! ;o)
The swim turned out to be almost as productive managing to sneak in 3 sets of 200m FC, focusing on technique rather than speed etc....man I need to deal with my technique! It was quite funny though, Claire in the pool dealing with 4 kids, me swimming a 200m set and then a WWF style tag team change over! That means recovery between sets was fairly long but full of handstands in the pool, catching kids jumping in with their waterwings on and splashing various little ones! It was also quite good in that I could give a little 'coaching' to my 16 year old who was trying to swim. He's got potential, just needs to fine tune his technique.
Bike route was replicated on the way back complete with the obligatory waving, beeping horns and raspberries blown out of windows from the family car as they whizzed on back for an early hot cup of tea to leave me pedaling!
All in all, not a massive session but positive in that I could fit in a bit of something whilst still being Dad.
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