3 Events in 1 Week!

Run: 17.8km | Swim: 2.2km | Transitions: 8 | Total: 20km | Total Ascent: 560m

We started at Oxwich Bay and ran and swum our way home around the coastal trails and bays, back to Mumbles. It was a hot day and it was such a relief to get into the cool, calm water for each swim, but I wasn’t expecting a jellyfish swarm- literally hundreds! We have encountered massive barrel jellyfish and we have been stung on our faces on our training swims so I wasn’t as freaked out as I would have been a couple of months ago and I knew I had to keep it together and just get on with it!

So following the Breca event I eased off on the training a little in preparation for Tenby Long Course Weekend. It consisted of the Ironman 3 events over the three days.

So it was a 2.4 mile swim Friday, 112 mile bike Saturday and the marathon on the Sunday- I chose not to do the marathon as it would take me too long to recover after the weekend and I will need to resume my training plan.

I found both events mentally hard as well as a physical challenge but wow- I did them! My swim was my best time to date 1 hour 20 mins and the bike was 8 hours 9 mins, though how on earth I will run a marathon after it, remains to be seen!!

Ed had his first taste of a race and completed the Taff Kids swim run race – he was awesome!

I went straight to see mum on Monday to tell her all about this weekend’s adventures, her eyes lit up when she could see how pleased I was. I told her too that it was her that kept me going when I sank into a dark place on the bike ride and when I doubted I could finish the swim. She always said I was a determined young lady- well I’m not young anymore, but am certainly determined!!!

xxx Kitty