Some more milestones

In the last month I have passed a few more milestones.

Since I began my programmed training I have now completed the following:

Swim: 172km (in 86 hours) - milestone 150km
Bike: 4,293km (in 156 hours) - milestone 4,000km
Run: 985km (in 90 hours) - milestone of 1,000,km will be reached this week
Total: 5,450km (in 332 hours) - milestone 5,000km

I have also managed three weekends of racing in a row, including a sub1:45 half marathon and this week I have run 56.2km which is the most I have ever run in a week.

I went below 100kg in weight today for the first time in about 12 years. I was 99kg when I finished my run today (25.5km), but this is likely to be a temporary drop below 100kg as I was pretty dehydrated by the time I finished (loosing around 2.5-3kg in fluid). I'll take it though! Regardless, I have been under the 30 BMI 'obese' threshold for all of the last 3 weeks.

In the next few weeks I will undoubtedly set some more milestones:

My first half ironman (20 November)
My first 20+ hour training week
My first 300+km week

As Coach Geoff pointed out this afternoon as we bobbed around in the Otago Harbour (I reckon the water is about 11 or 12 degrees, so it's not bad... who am I kidding it's still bloody freezing, but it makes me feel really alive), I've come along way since my first few weeks when I said to him that there was no way that I could do 12 hours of training in a week.