Chased up my snow/ice tire order. The retailers say no way jose. Not until AFTER xmas. what good will winter tires be if I can only start to use them halfway through winter.

So I just put in some hardcode google translate work and ordered another set from a place in Germany that *I think* has them in stock. I shall be extremely pissed off if I end up on public transport this month if only for losing out on the extra cardio it affords me without taking time out of my day.

As it’s T*mblr T*esday my least favourite day on this wretched site and ultimately the number of followers you have means nothing I’ll give my recommendation to the best suggestion for how to keep myself warm this evening following a 6 mile ride in the snow followed by an hour of running… also in the snow and then returning to my apartment with no heat or hot water. (edit: nor my GF who I don’t see til’ friday)

my boilers decided to bust just as the temperatures start dropping below freezing.

I now have NO heat and NO hot water.

My landlord is getting it sorted tomorrow hopefully but I’m sitting here fully wrapped up and I’m fah-reezing.

Oh well, being cold burns more calories though right?

Tonight was the annual meeting of the Tritons to go over the yearly budget, vote on the committee for next year and discuss plans for next years events/training. then into the bar for a social get-together but more importantly we could pick up some team kit.

I’m now the proud owner of two tritons cycling jerseys (one short, one long sleeve) and man do I look the part.

I kinda wish the weekend was over so I can wear it to ride to work.

In other news I just got my British Triathlon Federation number through so hopefully I’ll be signing up for my first event in the coming week to take place in june next year, you’ll hear more on that when it’s booked ;)

it’s probably a little more than that in fact as I round down to the nearest lb and I was 200.75 last wednesday and today I was dead on 199 so I was very close to my 2lb target.

which means I’m going to continue doing what I’m doing and the plan for the next seven days is

Today - Rest Day

Thursday - Commute by bike (12 miles total)

Friday - Commute by bike (12 miles total)

Saturday - Easy run (3.1 miles total)

Sunday - Long run (12 miles total)

Monday - Commute by bike (12 miles total)

Tuesday - Commute by bike (12 miles total) Training Run (6 miles total)

I won’t be under 196lbs by next weds now as 3lbs is too much to expect but hopefully I’ll be there by the following week.

My end of year goal will be 194lbs by Christmas if I can but there’s only so much I can do about, the rest is up to my body I guess.

But I’ll take it as this weekend I overindulged majorly due to feeling like crap because of my cold and also as I was less harsh about my food choices as I ran a 10k PB on a much tougher course.

I said I was having a rest day today but I’m sitting here in my cycling shorts just getting ready to ride to work. Big dose of MTFU needed as I only got 5.5 hours sleep and am a little tired tbh but I can’t face public transport so the bike it is.