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Sun, 20 Nov 2011

The feeling of getting back into training!

By Jodie Stimpson - Team Johnson Ambassador

Welcome back everyone!!!!!!!! Wu Hu!!!!!!

So, I'm just going into my third week back into training and having completed 2 full weeks back I've already found I need to listen more!
Sometimes wanting to get back into training too quickly is not a good thing and having Michelle there pulling me back into line is what I needed. I am extremely lucky to be coached my Michelle, and she always has my best interestes at heart and in mind so my first few weeks consisted of me just trying to remember how to swim, bike and run again, and it's amazing how much you forget in just 2 weeks. I really does my head in!

On the weekend I did my first hard 5km run at Cannon Hill Park. It was the first time I've done one of these park runs and I couldn't believe how well organised they were. I arrived at 8.30am to have a warm up and the 5k started at 9.00am, the 5km went around the park with marshalls all around the course, which was one big lap and one small lap. All I had to do before the race was register online and then print of a bar-code to take to the race and that's it, done and dusted, a free 5km race, I thinks it's brill and would recommend anyone to come and give it a go, I'll be a regular, that's for sure!!!!

So the 5km race started and me being me was on the front with all the dudes ready to go and I ran with the lead men for most of the first lap and then with the last 2km in sight, I died a death and finished 7th in a time of 17.35. It's a good starting point and it felt great to be able to run hard after so long, even if I did died a death at the end.

On Sunday I went to visit the David Lloyd Centre in Bromsgrove as part of the Oldbury Sytner BMW team who were there doing some fund raising all day. The staff at David Lloyd were doing an awesome job with there activities starting at 7am till 7pm , they were doing things like the male staff getting waxed, gym competitions and then the one I took part in was the swim. The staff were swimming 26 miles, so I helped out by swimming 2, ha ha :-) well, I didn't want to take it all away from them lol. I got to meet a few triathletes that had come down to say hi, and that was ace, hello to you all again!!! And thanks again to the BMW team and all the staff at David Lloyd!!!!!

So back to training, starting back in my third week and with the swim distance is repping up and some intense work is slowly being brought into some of the sessions, and it was a shock to the system when I went to Loughborough for the day for a run test, but Michelle got me through it. I had to do a test whereby the speed increased every 3 minutes, which was the sub max test and then after that had a small break and then did the max test where the speed increased and increased until I couldn't go anymore. It hurt like hell . . . and I loved it lol.

I was also up there for some bloods to make sure all was ok on the inside and then Emma Deakin gave me another session on the TeamFKPro, the glutes are definately pulsing after a day in the Borough.

Hope everyone is getting back into their winter training ok and are not getting to cold YET. Not long till Christmas :-)

Take care, Jodie

xxx

PS, I would like to say introduce the newest addition to our family, my cousin's baby girl, Maisie xxx

For more information about Jodie Stimpson - Great Britain Triathlete, visit www.jodiestimpson.co.uk