Here's 2016

New year and 2016 is my "biggest triathlon" year with a 70.3 (half ironman - lowercase branding) event in May. I haven't done any triathlon for a few years now (I think my last was Brighton or Seaford - both Olympic distance and about 5 years ago) and this one is further than I've ever done with a 2k swim, a 90k ride and a 21k run but I am better prepared and in better shape than I've ever been in. Since last summer, it has been more normal to do some form of exercise than not every day. I've upped the running (from about 150k total in 2014 to about 900k in 2015), re-started my swimming and kept going on the bike. More details will follow as I tell the story but I have the place in the Outlaw Half in May and I will be raising sponsorship in support of Cancer Research.

And, in as good a segue as I can do, it was cancer that did away with David Bowie last week. I could not, and will not try to, match any of the more lucid homages to his talent that are around and I don't go for a lot of public grieving on social media but I will say that he was a genius that, unlike most, will never be seen as tied to any particular time - he and his art (more than music) are time-less and will last.

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Tags: Bowie, Triathlon