Milestones achieved!

So far this week training has been fantastic! Swimming has felt much better than it has to date, rides have been fantastic and I seem to be gaining a bit of top end speed in my running. Today, hasn't been so flash as I awoke with a headache and then felt flat all day, plus it was a wet morning and that stopped me getting out for a brick (bike to run transition) session. Awesome feedback from Coach Geoff, a fellow competitor and a complete stranger have also boosted my performance and filled me with a huge sense of pride.

It also helps that the milestones I foreshadowed a few weeks ago all came to fruition this week. The most significant of these for me is the fact that I am no longer an obseity statistic. Today, I weigh 102.5kg and have a BMI of 29.9, making me officially in the overweight range and not obese. I hadn't weighed myself for about 10 days as I had become frustrated that my weight loss had been painfully slow, but I have lost around 1.5kg in 10 days. I have now lost in excess of 32.5kg (almots 25% of my body weight) since I peaked at over 135kg about 2 years ago. The next target is under 100kg, then under 90kg and then 85.5kg and the 'normal' BMI range

The other milestones all relate to the total distances covered in my training so far:

• 500km running (504.9km so far at an average of more than 26km per week)
• 2,000km cycling (2,025.8km so far at an average of more than 106km per week)
• 75km swimming (later this week I will reach 75km total, that's around 157 lengths of a 25 metre pool per week)
• Total distance 2,500km (now more than 2,600km)
• By the end of this week I will have also completed over 150 hours of training.

Next targets (all about 8-10 weeks away):

• 750km running
• 3,000km bike
• 100km swimming
• 4,000km and 250 hours of training

Bring it on!