Preparing for the London Tri

I'm resigned to the fact that my swim is going to be a bit poor in the London Tri. I've put a lot of effort into familiarising myself with open water swimming this year with my mates at Cambridge Tri Club but in the last race I could not settle down for the swim. So I'm resigned to just getting it done and slathering myself in Frys vegetable oil to get my wetsuit off fast. Perhaps a super fast transition will be what I need on race day. The shoes are a problem and I've not practised the elastic band trick when attaching bikes to pedals so I'm not sure how that bit of transition will work - I am planning to hobble in cycling shoes at the moment.

This week my preparations have all been about getting my running form back a little. I did 5km in the race Sunday, ran 5 miles Monday with my mates from GE and ran just over 5 miles Tuesday (in the rain) and today. Unimpressive times and asthma kicking in a bit but not terrible and it's nice to be out running again.

I tried running without socks on Monday and that was fine, so that's part of my race strategy - cut some time off transition by skipping socks and gloves and stuff!

I've got some fierce deadlines this week and would really like to be at climate camp but I will stay focussed on this little sprint and see what I can do.