Ironman UK 2006
I did Kildysart 4miles, Headford 8km, Swinford 4.5 miles, Westport 13 miles and the Streets in 14 days, to see if my body could take it and especially my back. I do not recommend to anybody to do what I did especially if you are injured like me awaiting surgery. However, we all know that sport is a drug and that my mind is trained better than my body. After the Westport and Streets of Galway dual race, I did not run or cycle for a week my back and hamstring were stiff so only did 3 swim of an hour. My preparation was very poor I trained only for 12 weeks in which I went 5 days to the European champs in France, then 5 days in Croatia for the Euro U23, then came back for 4 days to the National swimming age group Champs and then went to Lisburn to the National Open Swimming Champs so a total of 20 days out of training (did one run of 35min in Lisburn). I calculated a total of 103 hours in 12 weeks for this Ironman which is incredibly low and included 1 /2 2 hours run a w