Snow stops play (by Julian)

A few centimetres of snow and the whole country comes to a halt. Admittedly it was more than a few centimetres up in Ide Hill but did all transport countrywide have to stop?

Unfortunately cycling up hill is hard enough without it being covered in sheet ice. Running doesn't work as well either. And swimming is hard to get to. So "snow stopped play" for training as well.

Whenever the weather did break over Christmas then it was back out there. Christmas Day I cycled over to Speldhurst for Christmas lunch with Granny & Grandpa...owing to Sarah having to turn back for the presents, I actually beat the rest of the family. But this was a short lived burst of enthusiasm before more snow set in.

Eventually snow cleared and last week training was back on...except of course, work also needed catching up on. The result - no training until the weekend...and then a 1 hour cycle, 1:15 hour run and 106 lengths in 2 days. Exhausting.

But critical - because we had a team catch-up on Sunday evening...and it appears that it wasn't only me that put a burst on to have one week of "green" against our training programme! Everyone was a flurry of "black" (completely missed!) or "purple" (our team leader's tactful way of "red" or below target!)...until that week when lots of "green" suddenly appeared.

Continuing the trend, this week I was out every night for school or work related activities and achieved a big round ZERO on the training programme. But a cycle yesterday and a run today, with a swim to come this evening will hopefully see me slide in under the bar!