How Hard Can it Be?: December Training Update & a broken finger!

Monday, 31 December 2012

December Training Update & a broken finger!

I'd planned this month to make the most of the dark nights by focussing on improving my swimming. All was going really well until the 8th December when whilst something as innocuous as getting changed after swimming resulted in me rupturing the extender tendon on my ring finger and breaking it too!? No pain but an instant disfigurement. I'm now facing six weeks in a splint in the hope of it mending but the prospect of an operation at the end of it if not... It also put paid to swimming until at least the 21st Jan 2013 :-(

I've also not been able to ride the bike with the limited finger movement so been concentrating on Gym work and have finally had a go at Spin classes... Great fun but really hard!

Here's the training update for December to wrap up the year!

01/12/12 ~ 1000m pool swim training at Total Fitness in 25.57 (SWOLF ~ 56)

~ 10 mile winter bike loop around Bradwall in 36mins 29 Secs averaging 16.7mph

03/12/12 ~ 800m pool swim at Total Fitness in 20mins (SWOLF ~ 54)

~ 30mins Weight Training

06/12/12 ~ 1000m pool swim training at Total Fitness in 25mins 13secs (SWOLF ~ 53)
               ~ 30mins Weight Training
08/12/12 ~ 6mile bike ride to Total Fitness in Crewe via Haslington in 25mins averaging 15.2mph
               ~ 800m pool swim at Total Fitness in 19mins 03secs (SWOLF ~ 51)
               * Ruptured extender tendon and broken ring finger whilst getting changed after swimming :-(

09/12/12 ~ 30mins weight training at Total Fitness and recovered the bike from the lock up after having to

abandon it yesterday with my broken finger!

12/12/12 ~ 30mins weight training and 10km on the cycle machine in 19mins 25secs

14/12/12 ~ My first ever Spin class session... 45mins of 'hard' at Total Fitness gym! Really enjoyed it!

16/12/12 ~ 10km bike machine, 3km treadmill and 30mins weight training at Crewe Hall

22/12/12 ~ 1 hour Spin Class at Total Fitness followed by...

~ 1 mile treadmill run and...

~ 30minutes Weight training

27/12/12 ~ 3mile post Xmas run around the Wheelock Rail Trail in 30mins and

16secs in my new running gear... Thanks Karen, Dave and Katie!

28/12/12 ~ 45mins weight training at Total Fitness

All in all it's been another good year!

The London 2012 Olympics were also an amazing experience, and watching British riders take 1st and 2nd place in this years Tour de France a week before hand brilliant!

Another £2,522 raised for the Abersoch RNLI... £1,872 from the coast to coast bike ride and £650 from the Findel Ed boys v girls team Triathlon. Also £120 raised from the Liverpool Triathlon for the Isaiah Trust... All of which I know will be put to excellent use... Thanks again all for the donations, support and genereal goodwill!

The coast to coast bike ride was a great experience, stunning scenery, a fantastic route with a great mate... Thanks Dom!

The Capesthorne team Tri was also a great day out and a laugh with the folk from work. Thanks Nick, Kev, Marwa, Joanne and Lisa for agreeing to raise funds for the RNLI and an extra special thanks to Lisa for organising it!

The Livepool Tri also saw me hitting another of my goals for the year getting under the 3hour milestone for the Olympic Distance of 2hours 53mins.

A huge thanks also to Karen and my daughters for all their continued support! I really don't know what I'd do without you!

I'll be continuing BLOG'ing my training and fundraising exploits next year so watch this space!!! And thanks for following!

Happy New Year!

Dave.

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Why am I doing this?!

I got drawn in to running in 2007 to raise funds for charity and discovered it's a great way to keep in shape! I expanded the fundraising to open water swimming in 2010 and loved that too which lead to taking up cycling and Triathlon's in 2011!

I've kept a training blog for the past three years and found it a huge motivator to get out and do something to report on so here I am again! I'll be keeping a record here of all my training and event ups and downs as well as a few deviations on my hobbies. I'm planning a few events this year for my own benefit and a couple of major events to raise funds again for two charities that mean a lot to me:

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution ~ http://www.rnli.org/

In September 2007 I had an accident whilst sailing my Laser Pico dinghy out at sea off Abersoch, North Wales. The Abersoch crew came to my aid and I'll be eternally grateful ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk6edftmHtg

I spend a lot of time out at sea with family and friends and it made me realise just how dependent we are on this life saving volunteer emergency service funded entirely by charity.

I ran the Great North Run Half Marathon to raise funds for the Abersoch RNLI station in 2008 & 2009. In 2010 I taught myself front crawl and swam a mile in open water at The Great Salford Swim and in 2011 rolled it all up taking on the Tatton Triathlon Olympic Distance.

This year I'm going to extend the cycling by riding Coast to Coast from Morcambe to Bridlington along the 'Way of the Roses' route ~ http://www.wayoftheroses.co.uk/. It's a 170mile ride over 3 days from 24th to the 26th August...

How hard can it be ;-)

The Isaiah Trust ~ http://www.isaiahtrust.org/

A registered charity started in 2001 by two good friends with big hearts, Nicky and Tim. The charity helps kids in Kenya orphaned by aids and surviving on their own on the streets in some of the most apalling conditions imaginable. The lives that these kids endured prior to the charity beggars’ belief and as a parent myself brings tears to my eyes... But the Trust has and continues to do some amazing things for these kids... Providing outreach and rehabilitation centres to give safe havens and remedial education, setting up orphanages and foster parent programmes. Helping children get back in to the state educaion system and providing 'resource centres' for older child who have missed too much schooling to teach them a skill or trade to earn a living. The Trust is now working hard setting up farms to establish sustainable food programs as well as teaching children farming skills. The trust has helped change the lives of so many kids but there are so many more yet to help...

After a four years of running the Great Manchester 10km Run, to raise awareness and funds for the trust last year I ran the Edinburgh Marathon which was awesome! This year I've signed up for the Liverpool Triathlon Olympic Disatance event (1500m swim, 40km bike, 10km run) where I'll be looking to get under that elusive 3 hour target! Watch this space!...