Back in the UK

So, you've trained since October through the wind and the rain, given up refined carbs (including BREAD!) and spent race week protecting your pasty skin from big, bad nasty Mr. Sun. Race day comes and goes and you have two weeks of down time before all starts again (and knowing British summer it'll still be in the wind, rain, hail, floods etc.), what do you do...?

A recovery hike through Addo National Park: be careful to avoid snakes and the rare flightless dung beetle!

Watch the sun rise over the waterfront in Cape Town

Or alternatively the moon rise over the Stellenbosch valley. Fine wine and cheese platter strongly advised.

Take a trip up cable mountain - recovering triathletes should use cable car no matter how much the may want to run their way to the top

The other, other, other, other woman. I called her Belle seeing as I hired her services for 48 hours.

Plan your return to what is without doubt an amazing and thought provoking country in geographical, cultural and socio-political terms. Only next time, remember to pack a larger trunk! Bud-um Ch!

The road to Kona and a new chapter begins on Monday...