I am still here

Just a quick post to say that things are still trucking along nicely. Its been a while since I've had the chance for a full update (lots of work, etc) and I will be on to that some time this week, but here are some recent highlights:

• Training weekend with Sam Warriner that far exceeded my expectations. The small technique tweaks that I was able to gather have already proved to be very useful. More about this later in the week.
• The weekend on the training camp was also hugely beneficial as I was able to spend for days thinking about nothing but training and with Coach Geoff along too, I was able to learn heaps more from him too.
• The last few weeks I have also been focussing on doing the trunk exercises that Geoff gave me a few months ago, but that I had only been doing intermittently. These are really starting to pay dividends, especially with my running. Having Coach there for the last 2km also was a huge motivating factor (Thanks Geoff, I really do appreciate it!).
• The start of an 8 week build in my program this week included a 2:45 Brick (2 hour bike to 45 min run transition). Using the stuff I learnt on the camp I was able to get off the bike and run at 5 minute km pace (30seconds/km faster than I have been able to do to date in training). Still slow, but a HUGE jump up for me. I then followed that up with a run the next day which ended up being exactly 21.1km in 2 hours.
• Yesterday I moved up to the 40-44 age group. Yep, I am officially 40 years old and in the best shape of my life.
• I have now started to loose weight again. I have dropped from 104 to 101.5 and I haven't yet completed all of the food diary stuff for my coach anmd therefore haven't tweaked my nutrition. I can't wait to see what happens when I do sort out my nutrition - I'd better get those diaries to Geoff.
• Motivation is still high. Bring it on!