Thread: General Fitness Upkeep

Originally Posted by Dougie

Some days I dream of chopping his legs off from the knees.....

So you can see eye to eye?

I used to be the same. Hadn't been for a run or swim for over 10 years. My twin, who had been training for months, entered me in a mini tri and told me about it a week before the event. After getting some road tyres for the mountain bike and something I could wear to swim in, actually didn't even own a pair of shorts, I had time for one run and one swim. Rattled off a 10km run in just over half an hour and pulse returned to below 50 within 5 minutes. Biked to QEII jumped in the pool and promptly swam 2km (40 lengths); that surprised me as I'd never done over 200m before. On the day I did the 500m swim, 12km ride and 5km run with ease and beat my twin by 40 minutes.

After last weekend I can fully understand your comment on natural vs real fitness Tussock.