Aaaand that's the first 3 weeks of Ironman 70.3 training over. It's been a great start, my motivation hasn't dropped although there have been a couple of sessions needing some strong conversations with my inner chimp at 6am. Apparently 12th January is the day after New Year when most people give in to resolutions. I didn't and won't be doing that. The biggest breakthrough has been swimming. Thank goodness as that's been the main focus of these first 3 weeks! I'm not a natural, more arm flailing and windmill than anything graceful. However, a session of Total Immersion coaching has made me so much more confident that I LOVE being in the pool. I've gone from gasping after 25 metres and taking 42 minutes to do 400m to 10 x 100 metres taking 31 minutes. That's HUGE gains at this point. Some more TI sessions with coach James Ewart over the coming months should see me hit and exceed the minimum times for the Ironman 70.3 swim. There have been a ...