It then seemed a bit silly not to attach them to my bike when I do the Windsor Triathlon next weekend.  So I got some elastic bands and had a go at practising on the path in front of my house.  The kids came out to help as well!

All was going well.  I could take my feet out of the shoes and dismount.  Easy.  I could run and jump on to the bike.  Not as easy.  I get a little scared jumping on to the saddle!  I aim to land my right thigh on the saddle as there is less scope for unexpected pain!  That went well.  Putting my feet in shoes while moving was a little harder but do-able.

I was then down to my last two elastic bands and so I thought that I would have one more practise.  I ran.  Fine.   I jumped.  Fine.  I landed on the saddle.  Fine.  I started pedalling.  But unfortunately, my bike was in a big gear.  My foot slipped off the shoe.  The shoe hit the ground.  The pedal stopped going around because of the shoe was still hitting the ground.  Then I fell off.  I fell to the left and kind of fell on top of the ground.

Afterwards, my daughter said that she thought I was going to cry.  I said that I was too busy trying not to swear. LOUDLY!

The bike was fine but I’ve got blood coming from: little finger on my left hand, palm of right hand, thumb of right hand, two places on my right knee and two toes on right foot.  I also have a sore right foot, sore right knee and sore right thumb. 

That never happened when I trained for Ironman.  Olympic distance training hurts…