April

First up, the reading material. I’ve already got Serious training for endurance athletes, a great book, I also went for the Joe Friel training bible. On the lifestyle front 'Not normal behaviour' (an ironman story from ‘novice’) and also a collection of stories of ironman competitors.

I’ve got a subscription to triathlon magazine 220, so I must be serious now! Websites – plenty for triathlon such as
tri247. On the ironman front, all roads lead and start from www.ironman.com.

DVDs, plenty as well, particularly the NBC annual Kona World Series.

Lots to read, this is all very exciting. I’m still not training yet, after all, this is only an ironman, and I’m just educating myself…..