Finally able to start training for HIM

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Thanks for the support everyone and advice Wahine. I am going to ease off on the running for a few weeks as still really have 8 - 10kg to lose and already have a slight niggle in my right knee. I'm initially using a walk/run program to get the mileage on my legs up. Thankfully I have a good foundation of walking while pregnant under my belt so from a muscoskeletal point of view are not too behind.

I'll pm you but am interested to hear your thoughts on what would be good core exercises as have been doing some already as I have slight lower back pain/weakness BUT am being much more careful this time as I'm sure I caused it last time by using poor lifting technique with my first son.

crazycanuck - my son (Nicholas) is so far quite a good sleeper (only up once or twice a night at the moment) hence starting training now. I am very lucky as he is feeding well and I recovered very well after the birth. I had a Cesarean last time so am amazed at the speed of recovery this time. Thankfully only a small tear that has healed well too. I'm still taking it easy though as realise there is quite a lot of potential for me to go out too hard and do irreparable damage.

I'm entered in the Monaco HIM. Probably not an ideal beginers HIM with the v hilly bike course but it was the one we picked as it fits in with some travel goals for this year and is somewhere that my husband is excited about going and hence will be very supportive of training etc (which really means looking after the kids). I am also one of those masochistic types that must set goals that are just a little on the unreachable side in order to get myself motivated to train hard.