Two steps forward. One step back.

The season is well and truly started but I don't know if I'm going forward or back.

Yesterday I was in the pool for the first time in a few weeks. And it hurt. Badly. I was terrible. Technique was awful. My endurance non-existent. I quit a session early for the first time ever. I left with my tail firmly between my legs.

This hurt all the more because over the past few weeks I have been properly trying to get into my running. I have been getting at least two sessions in a week, squeezing them in at lunchtime My mileage has been increasing steadily. Unfortunately the speed isn't increasing at the same speed. But nonetheless I'm running consistently which is more than I was doing this time last year.

My cycling has been improving as well. At least three times a week I am cycling into work, so the legs are firmly turning and the body is getting back into decent shape.

And then the swimming debacle happened.

Finding a balance between all three disciplines isn't easy as life is flying by. But with only 4 weeks to my first race of the season I'll have to find the balance and get wet into the pool more often. Fast.

No time to be going backwards.