No training ....

France holiday week 1. Returned from Cornwall after vegging out from the Sprint Tri, packed the car and off to the Alps. 1 Espace, 1 roof box, 5 bikes, 3 kids, 1 wife and me. Amazing what you can attach to a car nowadays.

2 days later, much shouting at the kids and we arrived in the Les Get. Straight into the Lake for a bit of open water swim training (200m), a tad cold but OK. Same old problem with swimming though, I need to practice more.

Out with the bikes. Mine is a classy 15 year old £99.00 steel mountain bike with tag along for Sophie. (not a desirable machine) and awful hard to make move. But Sophie likes it, sitting at the back, singing songs.

Next was running at altitude training. So I ran the final incline up to Ranfoilly (400yards at 1800m) and I was 'puffed out'. Was it the mountain Crocs I ran in, or the altitude.

Then down to Lac Leman and I saw a 'Dorking Ten' tee shirt!!! 150m Sprint training after lunch, the running Crocs absolutely helped me beat Oliver over this distance, although he did take off faster than me. Biked around (tagging Sophie, in 1st gear to keep the cadence up, just to make it difficult), then we all jumped into an open air swimming pool. 50m pool and I knocked out 500m, feel good to have done this.