The weekend starts here!

It's Friday, the weather looks good for tomorrow, the road bike is primed and serviced and it's time to start training again.

I entered another race today. I'm so weak willed it's frightening. It's called the Iron Monster - it's basically the First Monster Challenge but you do it by yourself rather than in a team. In an absolute bizzare twist it includes more mountain biking. Bigman will be shaking his head reading this after all I said in South Africa. As I say I'm weak willed and saw the race and really fancied it.

I suppose the option was the London Duathlon but somehow racing round London in the midst of the masses versus running and biking round the hills around Inverness actually meant there was no competition and to be honest the London Duathlon looked fairly easy compared to teh Iron Monster.

It comprises a 40km run over hilly terrain followed by 80km of mountain and road biking. Not sure how the logistics work out but I'll give it a go and see how it works out. I think I may have to drag the posse out for a bit of a recce one weekend - well if there are any willing volunteers.

Anyway, we have the challenge of the Etape in 4 weeks time which is going to be a huge race in itself. We all have our own targets for that race so will be training over the next month to achieve those. I'm also doing the Edinburgh 10km run in a couple of weeks time - I went out and did a wee 10km practice run yesterday to make sure that I could actually run the distance and I was fine. Quite pleased with myself. My twin brother, his brother in law and father in law are also running so it's going to be a bit of a family day out. Going to be fun.

I need to get back early tomorrow because of family stuff so I'm heading out on an early one leaving the bigman and fit one to head off to Auchterarder for what I'm sure will be a fantastic ride. Not sure what I'll do but I'll knock out a few miles.

It's going to be a fab weekend!