2008

2008 has started very well, i am just finishing up a nice 6 week block of work before heading to the UK for 2 weeks to see family get a little warm weather training!!! Zack very excited to go on an airplane friday to see his grandparents, wakes every morning asking if we go to the airport!!

The winter here in Hungary has been quite cold so far, lots of indoor training on the computrainer mixed with some freezing runs outdoors. The main goals for me this winter was to regain my speed after 2 years of training for longcourse, too many long hours in the past 2 winters just sapped my speed and led to 2 very average racing seasons. So focus has been speed now and long stuff will come closer to races, a different approach to I'm used to but seems to be lots of evidence for the success of this principle.

Here in Tiszaujvaros we have a great team of athletes and has been good to join them for a swim focus over the last few weeks, we have been putting in consistent 30+k swim weeks and certainly reaping the rewards with some fast swimming over a 1500m TT last week, managed to improve my best by nearly a minute recording 16.46 but only good enough for second fastest!!!