The future's Jonty. Well that might not be true but congratulations anyway to the new club sprint distance champion, Jonty Bright. Best of luck to Jonty and anyone else Mrs H and I know who are running the London Marathon this weekend.
Skipton Tri, my first tri of the year and a chance to see if all of the work I have done on my swim has actually paid off. The changing man has been swimming twice a week. Had lessons and focused on improvement of his weakest area. The result was a 06:30 400m swim. By no means lightening fast but far better than the 07:45 I was posting 18 months ago.
So 75 seconds may not sound a lot but it does leapfrog me over many other triathletes when it comes to the final scores on the doors. The bike was satisfactory and an 00:18:38 5Km run was good too. I wasn't sure how well I was running after recovering from further issues with the "glass feet" (this time I over-extended my big-toe joint) and the course including a bit of off-road. Not sufficiently off-road enough to induce a bit of my off-road mincing though.
Best of all, the sun shone.
Then it was time to recover. Back home to do a few chores, watch the Amstel Gold Race and make use of the new blender. Banana, malted choc powder, ground coffee, honey and milk.
Forgoodnessshakes make a big deal of their drinks but if you're "drinking from home", these appeal to the Yorkshireman in me. I read too that beer is a good recovery drink but doesn't help with re-hydration. I decided to over-look this particular pitfall and have a couple anyway.
Plus our Sundi guests couldn't make it round for tea and buns, so there were even more for us.
Recovery never tasted so good.
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