week of military life & Ironman training

This week was around 14 hours of training as we get closer to Ironman 70.3 venice which will be my third ever triathlon, hopefully i will get another PB and beat my last time in Croatia of 4 hours 59 minutes.

Long term I want to push triathlon as much as possible and maybe even try to go pro eventually.

I’m currently serving in the Royal Air Force based out In Cyprus which is an Ideal location for training and creating content.

Timecodes
0:00 – Intro
0:35 – lewis pov
0:41 – monday bike session
1:21 – post workout shnacks
1:45 – the hard part about triathlon
1:56 – tuesday morning swim
2:48 – work
3:56 – tuesday run
3:30 – recovery
3:47 – wednesday
3:51 – meeting with ceo
4:22 – wednesday v02 bike
4:49 – lewis pov
4:55 – recovery
5:16 – thursday
5:22 – friday swimming
5:41 – threshold ride
5:59 – lewis pov
6:25 – saturday 4 hour ride
08:19 – filming session

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Welcome another week of training St in the week Monday 1700 we’ve now got a 90minut turbo session going to do we still got the old T trainer I was meant to buy one at Christmas but I didn’t actually manage to pretty tired today a strength session at work which you’ve

Already probably seen by now worry the fact are still there going strong and the tr’s not being left out too much also got LS this week as well who’s going to be training with us you probably met him from the last video if you saw that he going to be doing Venice

70.3 with me I am man training Baby actually going to try and change this tire very quickly because it’s a slick Tire one with more tread and my Turbo’s just been terrible recently new tire on you can see tread much better we it off But watching bit a Dr Skipper on the turbo decent turbo workout it’s just an endurance ride I would normally do outside but it’s late today every day is different when you train some days you feel great some days feel terrible today I just feel a bit tired this that’s the

Food for tonight I’ve just been into the mess it was actually really good you know for for once for a surprise milit mess food very hit and miss most of the time you go walk Lo without fail every single day or you got like a a tiny

Piece of skimpy chicken it’s just it’s not the best to be honest going to do our 10 minutes of stretching for me personally training is hard but I don’t think it’s the hardest thing obviously the discipline of training very tough but I think the hardest thing is training near the

Nutrition nailing the Sleep stretching Mobility all of it together combined diet that’s a massive thing like I said I’m I’m nailing that now with my peanut butter sandwiches going to see you in the morning in about 8 hours Tuesday morning 550 the Americans back back at it man [ __ ] pumping that

Gr being in Austria I’m not letting him speak it pisses me off um I’ve got like a 2.8k swim just got a 2.2 2.3 I’m just looking forward to breakfast that’s all I’m saying just like that that’s the swim done half seven swimming is slowly getting slightly better I honestly used

To turn up to the pool just dread it a matter of surviving in the pool um much slowly getting there to be honest with myself and to be honest with you guys still don’t kick at all and use a full most of the time look it’s a massive

Problem yeah we got work work’s probably going to be a longer one today as well that’s like how it is balancing it with training and work got a run tonight as well it’s like not an easy run it’s kind of a hard run I think 1 hour 10 probably

About 7 or 8 Miles so yeah let’s get ready for work waiting for role to start making a pair of these get the S on or whatever they’re called it’s one of them workouts for our gear and I’m like not be bothered it’s happens a lot these

Shoes by the way never had a good paer of running shoes these are the ones s in the Endorphin speed free got some strides to open us up and then into 2 8 minutes that about some fresh so probably like 420 430 per km so man

Fresh set done 2 8 minutes 2 minutes rest in between now onto some like shorter 5K efforts for like 60 seconds barely see anything it’s about as much as you can they head touch don’t look good but safety that was actually surprising like very enjoyable worker I

Am tired you can tell I’m tired when I can’t speak can’t speak at the best of times you know what it’s like editing as usual I have only used nor Tech boots before know going to start expanding oh know that means I can’t get to the camera for 20 minutes um that’s what

We’re looking like now we’re going to be in here for like 20 minutes now another day another day at work right we’re about to have a meeting with CEO of a nutrition company pretty nervous why am I nervous supp it’s quite important and trying to get a good nutrition

Sponsorship I sometimes find it hard to articulate while I’m thinking the meeting’s over that was eye opening it was a meeting not like any other different to what I expected lesson for today if you’re worried about doing a call or worried about a presentation you should be cuz you might get grilled

Speaking a triform podcast I want to start one all about Tron I think it’d be about a bit of everything Tron military life just random stuff really just try and survive after the brutal call it was a good learning experience good to meet different people as well first bit of

The workout done 35 minutes left I’m just thinking about your very average a love it that’s going to be stuck in my head throughout the whole training now I cross that Finish Line in a very average time I’m sorry not just trat and [ __ ] so

Much wrong there 3 40 is not that hard cool down now for 8 minutes massage e all that stuff that big time the Beast has returned what a bike going on my first 2hour ride on my own so let’s hope I don’t get hit off it’s now 9 14 going have our pillow

And it’s time for bed tomorrow is another easy day we got a recovery swim don’t feel like I really need but I might need it after the weekend we’ve got like a 4our ride Saturday we’ve got 90minut run Sunday double session on Friday with the big swim so see you in the

Morning in here trying to fix a bike unfortunately on Friday the audio for the camera wasn’t working so we are doing a voice over like I said blame Lewis for this we did go to liol to a 50 m pool for the first time for our swim

Um it was different it was definitely humbling to say the least it was harder than the 33 M Pool we normally swim in and then we had some a bit a bit of shoulder issues to be honest before we went out on a sub threshold ride what a

Lovely day for it out on the hands no doubt you can’t hear a thing this is DJ I might just dies in The Wind last 10 minutes now come on oh Friday I’ve done a 2 swim this morning with Jack down at the new pool a

Lot harder than I thought it was going to be and this afternoon I’ve done three times 10 minutes sub fresh hold on the spin bike in the gym so yeah two 3our ride with Jack tomorrow morning that should be fun he’s probably going to be really fast cuz he’s probably going to

Be on his handso but I think on the Trek is it absolute Beast good morning it’s 7:15 7:25 actually feel pretty TI I’ve got to go cycling at 7:30 so I need to be quick I need to get everything ready need to PP up my ti

Need to get change need to do everything got 4our cycle today that should be fun we’re doing it with Lou going to change the cleat position slightly cleats were not feeling good at all so I’m going to try and change them here he is back from injury

Freezing he’s been up once not again yeah it’s absolutely freezing maybe because the sun’s not come up properly yeah but it’s cold and it I can barely feel my thir on my hands so I’m doing 4 hours probably about three for sur to get some breakfast we’re climbing now

Nice little incline this used to feel so much harder than it does now now it feels sound the sun’s coming out beautiful yeah s panting now cuz I’m talking but it’s nice when the hills start getting easier to tell you’re getting fitter and I am feeling strong

To be fair here we go look at this it’s St in just wait for Louis to get up now chain just dropped off which is annoying now i’ got oil all over my hands not ideal arriving to P Sun’s well and truly out now as you can see behind

Us going to grab some breakfast probably some pancakes why be so salty should use that one then you’re a right cup climbing again you enjoying the Hills Louis no not bad not bad back on Camp 4 hours later steady 3 hours now 1 hour pushing above 200 WS so

Keeping it kind of steady still flow’s coming out sun’s out love it get back stretch off film a podcast do med and all that kind of stuff I finished now think it was like 116 average heart rate so it was a steady ride I really really really really enjoy using the hand

Up Sunday morning we are just getting ready to go out and do the Filming down Get Up current situation this is um climbing in trees trying to find his drone we had a slight crash didn’t we whil we were doing a bit of filming less than ideal we know it’s somewhere up there we’ve located the Drone it wasn’t thank you for watching this video we have got about 5 weeks until Iron Man 743 Venice where losen booby’s first 70.3 more content will be coming in the training up to it and then Challenger off for my first full dist in July