Live life on the wild side

Rest and Recover The week after brutal was a quiet week, focused on rest and recovery, restful days, easy sessions and plenty of sleep.  The day after race day was a challenge in the way of walking, added with the combination of more than two flights of stairs a day because of my job at the time and movement was more tricky, I think it finally took till about Thursday to be walking like a normal person. Running was swapped out for gentle walks, stretching was added throughout the days during long periods of time waiting round and lots of focus on massage as well.  I did manage to get out for a run through the week through, a short social on Thursday more walk than run and a short run on Sunday, a good way to start getting back to some sense of normal, recovery also saw me prioritise more time on sleep, getting to bed at a decent time and because of the change of shifts more focus on a lie in and less focus on early starts, the increase in sleep was a huge benefit to my recover...

 Well what an adventure! I mean where do I start, let's take it back to race night.  Friday 9th September. We are back at the hotel, food has been eaten and we are packed, I'm still frantically trying to figure out what I have forgotten, but I haven't, I have everything I need, We pop on the TV, try to settle down and get an early night, Its an early 4 am start for us tomorrow.  Saturday 10th September.   Race day- 4 am alarm rings, weary eyes eventually open, we get dressed, fill the bottles, make sure everything is packed and make sure all the chargers have been unplugged. The nerves have kicked in, I feel sick, I honestly don't know if I can do this.  4.40 am we head to the car, laden with bags, heavier due to the water bottles now being full, the drive is long to the start, or at least it feels that way, we get to the parking and in my haste I mess up the payment then need to try and do it again, only I haven't pushed the button and now I'm trying to do it i...

  The start of the end..... Well not the actual end, in fact this was not suppose to be the end at all, this was just to be a stepping stone in the journey to the end.  If you are a regular follower of our YouTube, Instagram or Facebook you will have known we took on the #DragonDuathlon, a race we never finished, a race that runs every two years, alternating direction, north to south, then south to north, I say it runs....It ran.... We made the decision after having to pull out of the race that we would wait the 4 years, so we could redo the race we targeted, north to south, We had already spent a little under 2 years training for the first one then a further 4 training and working toward the second, around the pandemic, restrictions, broken collar bones, a year of no running with a hip injury and just keeping on top of day to day life. 6 years, a lot of our life we put on hold so we could go back to #DefeatTheDragon. Long story short the Dragon isn't happening any more offici...