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Sorry. Currently listening to the final track on Mike Oldfield’s Ommadawn. Trying to provoke some childhood memories.<\/p>\n

Don’t ask.<\/p>\n

It’s not working in any case. I really need some late 70s\/early 80s proto-ambient. Or Roxy Music. Or Neil Diamond.<\/p>\n

Anyway. A space came up for the prematurely-filled Tranent<\/a> today, which I assume means that the big softies looked at the snow outside and realised how damn cold it’s likely to be at the end of March.<\/p>\n

Me, I know how cold it can be. It snowed last year. My tri suit froze to my legs on the bike section. I didn’t warm up until the second lap of the run.<\/p>\n

So I’ve got my entry in, and for East Fife<\/a> too. Now I have to decide on a standard distance event for this year. Can’t be Gullane, because we’re on holiday, and also because I’m definitely doing Haddington this year (the run leg is really nice), which is only the week after. The Selkirk standard is on 10th May, which would be tempting if it weren’t a pool swim and not actually very far away in training time — I’ve heard really good things about the Borders series (particularly post-race noms). Can’t help but think that 1500m gets boring in the pool.<\/p>\n

That leaves Galway (!) and Strathclyde, which clash. Typical. And<\/u> they’re only the week after Loch Lomond, which is highly inconsiderate.<\/p>\n

Might have to go for Selkirk after all, pool swim or not.<\/p>\n

Much as I’d like to do an event outside the UK, I suspect finances and practicality will make Strathclyde the goer this year. Bah.<\/p>\n

I’d have quite liked to do more than one standard this year. I still have designs on the Aberfeldy middle distance at some point. Alas and alack the season in Scotland is brutally short and they pack ’em all in during our short summer, so unless I trained my endurance peak to perfection, I suspect I’d end up with near-fatal levels of wipeout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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