My lack of consistency is the only constant.

Dear god, I swear it gets worse...... I know that I don't know all there is to know about training so I try to swat up and find out tip, trick and short cuts to get to the promised land and what I have learnt this week is that "consistency is King". Sadly this is not good news, as today's (it should have been yesterday's) title suggests this is not my strong point. I start with good intentions, my training is split evenly between the week,I plan my diet to be rich in good stuff and absent of all evil. By Tuesday i have missed a target, eaten cake (not on a ride either) and basically its all gone to hell.

What has inspired this rant I hear you call out, well for once it is not all my fault, well it is as if I had punched him in the face I could have done my session as planned. On Friday evening I went for a swim, 4x500m at about 2min/100m nice and simple and not stupidly fast. sadly we went early so the pool was 1/2 closed so kids could learn to swim (this is good for the child bad for my blood pressure). so there is only two lanes open, one for slow swimmers and one it appears for very slow swimmers. I went for the emptier lane 5 instead of 7 so ended up behind a guy who could not have swum out side for fear of harpooning (still a little grumpy) he is cruising up and down and so I go to pass and with someone coming towards me I drop in just in front of him on the heels of some other slow swimmer. This upsets him so to show his displeasure he tries to punch me in the chest, arm lock me as we pass and generally get in the way. I am then left with two or three choices, 1) punch him back, 2)explain to him calmly and rationally that this is silly and to pack it in or 3)get out of the pool as 1 and 2 are really not going to work well. So out I get and stomp off for a steam and a soak.
I know, I know, I shouldn't let little things like this worry me, I should just focus on my thing and let the rest wash over me but I really would have liked to hit him. But back to the point, this week has felt, like a few recently, that things are trying to conspire against me and that this goal is a long way off. However, the goal is a long way off, I should break it down a bit and not focus on the big goal yet but the steps I need to take to get there. So this is the plan for the next week, i will look at the build phase and the weight loss now,  plan from now till Christmas and see where we are come the new year for phase 2.

As promised a review of last weeks training. some good sessions and some weaker ones but it all helps and even on the weaker ones there is positives, I felt good on the swims (except the desire to kill) and whilst the rides weren't super fast or far they were fun and got me more miles in the legs.
This week I did:

• 2 Rides
• 2 Swims
• 1 Run
• 1 Weights
• 1 Core

Next week I shall:

• 3 Runs
• 2 Swims
• 2 Rides
• 1 Cross train
• 1 Core
• 1 Brick

Well best go for a run..... see you next time (I'll be late)