Exams are Here - Wibble!

Just got my exam statement in the post - which means it's all official! First one is January 10th. I knew all of this info already, tbh, but it's now down in black and white and stuff. It'll be funny doing an exam from *that* side of things for the first time in ages!

I've woken up with a sore throat and coughing and wheezing like mad today. Inoticed I was breathing a bit wheezily yesterday, but it's really taken hold, so I won't be biking today in spit eof fancying it. Right calf (on the leg I turned over in a rabbit hole) is still twanging a bit, so maybe it's a good thing. Talking of which - here's a pic - if I can get it to upload. Tried it a few times on the Suicide Six post and it won't take it. That's Vrap alongside me!

Training has kinda gone to pot a bit. I need to get out there on those logn bike rides, and I think I need to settle down and stop messing with my running shoes! Having said that, the tight quad I was getting with the kayanos had made me wonder if something was wrong, but partly it's just being in different running shops! It does mean I'm mucking up training as I wear in shoes and stuff, and wonder more about niggles. There's still over seven months to IM Austria, and I guess the bike is the thign I've let go most.

Coming off the bike feeling okay (so I can at least run/walk fluidly) for the mara is critical - if I do that I can get round on sheer bloody mindedness. I was up to 50 mile rides two months ago, with company, and was hoping to comfortably hit seventy by the end of the year. I can still hit 60, but it will be a faster build up. It's not time to panic, but equally I need to get serious - and fast! So yes, I'll throw in some races, but I think the biking has to take priority.