200g nightie

So, developments this week.  Where do I start?  There have been so many.....

Firstly - my nightie weighs 200g.  I know this because I hopped on the scales this morning, didn't like the result, and whipped off the nightie to get a better reading.  Result.

Choices - feast or famine!  This week I have choices coming out of my ears.  Last week I only had prospects.  It is a funny old world.  And of course, what do I do when faced with a choice?  I shudder and retreat into a corner and hope life sorts it out for me.  I go after the change and the challenge and then I totally shit myself and have no idea what to do when presented with the opportunities.

Anyway, I am onto that.

Training.  Oh boy.  I thought at one stage I might enter Nepean Triathlon.  So I took myself out on the bike on Saturday, ostensibly to do 30km to "see" how long it took me.  The plan was to then compare with average race results and see how the lie of the land was.

I am very very crap on the bike.  Actually, I am very very SLOW on the bike.  I took myself around the Regatta Centre and rode as fast as I could (whilst dodging a lot of children, dogs and scooters).  I stopped at 25km after a five year old on a pink bike with streamers coming out of the handles appeared to be coming from the other direction in a straight line and then turned and rode into my thigh.  I wish I had my heart rate monitor on to see the spike, because it scared the absolute crap out of me.  Little girl was fine, I was fine, but it could have been very very ugly.

Anyway, I had put the bike in the big gears and pushed as hard as I could....only to average 20km an hour.  I need at least 25 km per hour to be anywhere near "normal" in the Nepean Tri.  So I have to find some way to add 5km per hour to my speed between now and November -so if anyone knows how to do this (if in fact, anyone actually reads this blog) could you please let me know.

However, the running is going ok, and this week I did the Cool Running 5km challenge - ran it with friends, chatting and giggling and did it within 20 secs of my pb.  Happy days.  I think it was because it was so cold I couldnt feel my legs.  Then Sunday did a walk / run thing for 25km in the National Park which was beautiful and we sat out at the Nepean Lookout and chatted and laughed and enjoyed the view.  Lovely lovely lovely day.

So - what to do about this little life of mine?  As usual, I am going to sit back, watch, wait and see what transpires.  I hope it is good.