This period marked the peak intensity of my training for the Ironman in September, with regular training weeks totalling 20 hours or so. The minimal amount of rest I got was spent genuinely recovering and recuperating (stretching, being massaged, eating and sleeping!) or trying to catch up on the work I have been struggling to keep up with. Any “free time” left over was then spent with my wife, family or friends in an attempt to maintain a degree of normality! All in all, there haven’t been enough hours in the day and I struggle to remember exactly what I did when! Mentally, it’s been a bit of a “lost couple of months”!