My Ironman: Moving on Samui, attempts to start training, bicycle and jogging barefoot

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The last two weeks there was no new posts on the preparation just because a week after New Year's I was sick a cold or the flu, do not know. A second week my family and I moved from Ukraine to Thailand, namely Koh Samui. Then I plan to spend the next three months while living, working, and, of course, exercising. I have to say that my coach to follow the program does not work because the sport on a tropical island - it is a test of strength and search for compromises. What I'm busy. For example, it has been used barefoot running, and he's incredibly cool!

Transportation by air bike

It all started with the fact that I was taken aback by how I carry the bike - a very expensive and fragile device of carbon, which was to carry on the route Kiev Dubai → → → Bangkok Samui three airlines. It is foolish to take such baggage is so heavy flight, but the question here was the price. We found tickets for $ 300 cheaper per person. How can you not buy?

Under the terms of carriage UIA airlines, Emirates and Bangkok Airlines, which by the way are very different because of the sports equipment, you can carry 20 kg load. If you have a bike there is the bag, you have to pay for it. The most draconian conditions of carriage in Bangkok Airlines: Your bicycle should fit into a 50 × 100 × 50 cm. For example UIA allows anything that is not greater than 165 cm for large size. Thais draconian measures due to the fact that the ATR turboprop aircraft with 70 seats has only three seats for bicycles and similar equipment. Moreover you have two days before departure, and write a letter to warn you that you will be great. Otherwise they can deny you, if there are "competitors" in place. Their response looks like this:

The bike was disassembled me, and it is sensitive to shocks frame wrapped in foam material, which I asked for in the bicycle shop.

Placed disassembled bicycle was in a special non-rigid enclosure, which was bought in the bicycle shop is 400 UAH. He will not protect against impact, but will save you from scratches and in the delivery of luggage will not give up. Ideal to carry such a device in a hard suitcase, which costs $ 400, which I have not found :)

I am very worried for my friend carbon, but each transit it pleased me to issue oversized baggage and drove without problems by 99%. Little problem was, but I have no experience decided it for 5 minutes. Transportation led cost me $ 0.00.

Running and velopoezdki in the tropics

We live here:

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It is very humid, very hot and very hilly. When I first came a year ago on this island, I thought, coming out of the plane, only one thing - what I'm going to breathe? I learned to breathe and decided to train here.

The first training was at 16:00 on a sunny day on the road next to a coconut plantation - a dog attacked me, roasted sun. Smog make only 3.55 km. It could be more, but why break yourself?

Then there was the race in the early morning at sunrise at 8 km. It is noteworthy that even at 8 am on Samui is getting hot, so worth getting up at 5-6 in the morning to work out fine. On the island runs a lot of beautiful men and women. About myself I nicknamed them "Jason Bourne" - so they run cool. Russian boys and girls in sharp contrast minority. But we get lag on the bar. Sad.

Then we found the house, but there was a problem - it was necessary to somehow get up to 14 km without a moped and come out on the bike home. So I made the first of his life duathlon :) He ran 14 kilometers, took a shower and then went on a bicycle.

To reach as many in this tropical paradise had to rise at 6:30 am and start. It's late, so I got into a very intense heat literally 1 hour 20 minutes.

Then the first time I got on my bike outside their homes - before I went on it Only the machine. In short - there is nothing in common with those "ordinary" bicycles, where I went earlier. One time I fell on a traffic light when he could not prischelknut velotufel left foot to the pedal and lost speed. Hello Vova Degtyarev, whom I told that I do not understand how you can fall out of it :) And I almost flew to the wheel at a speed of ≈45 km / h from the mountain, when les-go-to-nech I would like to slow down! In general, the ride I was very bad, very bad, and this is my pain. The result of this race and cycling return.

Makeshift duathlon was not heavy, but ponatiral everywhere in the places about which they do not write;)

Cycling and running on Samui nice - you no scares, no pressure, no one shows that you are a nonentity, since it is not on the machine.

Running barefoot or barefoot running

Samui I ran our readers novel TsapinWhich inspired me to run along the beach. Well, you say? It's brilliant, it's fantastic, it's a real thrill! I ran nearly 8 km along a gently sloping beach of Chaweng. I stopped only grated, as well - the sea breeze, cooling the body through the feet of sea water, the girls topless and not worthy of the majority of fat young people with beer. If you are not running and so can try, I guarantee - you will love running. Make sure that the beach was gentle, not very sloping and not loose. We have to run at the edge of the oncoming waves.

And yet, these jogging inspired my five year old son, and he is under the affection of people on the beach did "back and forth" a kilometer! Proud and themselves, and they are.

Swimming

It so happened that I was able to take just one lesson from the swimming instructor, and then fell ill and left. I need three times a week to swim for 2 km. It is not very difficult if you do not fight the water and swim well. Surprised, huh? :) For training, I chose the technique of "Full Immersion» (Total Immersion). Its essence is revealed in the book published by the "myth" - "Full immersion». If you show a little ingenuity, you can find on the internet training video on this course (DVD copy). I spent three long training on the book and the video and I can say that I was starting to understand the origin of the speed and endurance in this type of diving. Try it, you will not regret.

Naturally, the exercise in the sea does not work - too salty, too many waves. Because we were looking for a house with a swimming pool in Samui. Only 12 meters, but for practicing movement - what you need!

Come visit if you live nearby.

While planning to run only in the early morning. Prmerno so.

And the rest of the disciplines will be with the new week on the program.

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