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This time of year is horrible – or is it just me ? I feel miserable, a bit ‘crazy’, can’t settle, a bit all over the place !!? This is the time of year I always went OTT with trying to relax with a glass (or two!) of wine, then really needed to do Sober October, but could never manage to do it !!! I’m TT now, just because I like not drinking, but I definitely feel like having too many glasses of wine !! anyway, instead, I’m relaxing with a proper, nice coffee, which is probably not the best idea for trying to relax – haha buzzinnn !! but it does make me sit down and chill, and I really love a nice coffee (feels very grown up !?), it makes me stop and enjoy the moment :-))) with a wee chocolate :-))) small pleasures, little wins 😁😁

Also taking vitamin D because going from summer to autumn – less sun – I always feel better when its sunny – don’t we all !!? its probably just phycological but a wee vitamin D top up can’t do any harm. Once we get into winter I’ll be fine – I like running and cycling in the dark and cold, I like sitting in by the fire when its wild outside, I like cool, bright days, I like when we get to December 22nd and the days start getting longer again !!

I’ve been making rocky road – it’s more rocky, than road – I just threw in all sorts of random things that I found in the kitchen- nothing too weird, its all sweet 🙂

And setting up my indoor bike trainer, so that I don’t have Zwift FOMO this winter ! (in my jammies and dressing gown 😁)

I had thought I might be at the end of my races for the year by now, certainly the end of outdoor swim triathlons anyway – I thought a short block of races after chemo etc was a good idea, but I seem to have entered lots of races and I quite fancy doing cross country this winter !! a duathlon and an aquathlon.

I’ve been inspired by my fellow triathletes and I’m still excited when I think about doing an Ironman, so next year (fingers crossed, staying well) I want to do a couple of half Ironmans (Ironmen lol) / middle distance triathlons. No European / world qualifiers – can’t do everything – costs too much !!

Then the following year I do an Ironman.

Then the year after that I want to do the Marathon Des Sables !

Then the next year I want to write a book !!! haahahaha

Well………..maybe !

(Planning and looking forward to things definitely helps at this time of year 😁)

Back to reality for now – Herceptin / Pertuzumab next week, also a MUGA heart scan, which I hate (have passed out twice), also another visit to the podiatrist (toenail playing up AGAIN!!).

Oh yeh, and St. Andrews duathlon tomorrow – eeeeeekkk 😱😱