As the training schedule set by our glorious leader gets longer, it is increasingly hard to go out in the snow and rain to do an hour or so running or cycling. Luckily half term intervened and a long planned trip to our "winter training camp" with the children...
...to the Caribbean for diving courses. It was hard to get the bike on the plane but new running shoes were purchased on the island and the running/swimming schedule was stuck to rigorously. Running along 7 miles of sandy beach is hardly the same as the ups & downs of Ide Hill. Swimming in the sea is hardly the 20 strokes, turn, 20 strokes, turn.
But it turns out that Winter Training Camp is not all sun, sand and sea. Sand is tough to run on and an hour slipping on it kills your calves. Sea brings with it salt burns and once again those lovely friction burns scars return. And add in a bit of wind and it felt like being back in the "washing machine" of Dover Harbour - being chucked around by the waves for an hour.
GREAT fun and so much more fun when the water is 70-80F!
