I started the day with cold water swimming at Brockwell Lido with Dene. It was freezing cold. Actually it was 10°C, but that felt freezing cold. I managed to swim four length’s which was about seven minutes.

The sky was beautiful and my mind opened up being to in the cold water, so I started the day with a triumph. I then made my way to HotPod Yoga, where our teacher Sarah took us through one hour of enjoyable body movements.

I just landed in Spain about one hour ago. I had been visiting England for my father‘s funeral. I gave a speech at the funeral as did my niece Mia Morgan. I’m currently waiting on the bus to depart for Denia.

I’ll be here in Spain for about one month until December 19 Upon which I will then fly back to England to visit some family. Few days after that I will fly to France to spend Christmas with Thao’s family. Then I will fly to Thailand and land in Bangkok at 6 am on the 3rd of January which is my birthday.

I will stay in Thailand until about the beginning of May where I will then go to America to begin a one month final preparation for the Appalachian Trail double world record attempt. These are my plans, but as we know all too often sometimes life has other ideas for us.

My body feels pretty tired, my left knee is hurting, my right shoulder is tight and my hips feel pretty tight. Last year after the Appalachian Trail I took off four months. But I did cycle 1000 miles in that time on my bike fully loaded.

This time within six weeks I was back training. I think I may take some time to do a little bit more relaxing and listen to what my body is saying. I want to be fully rested and ready to go next year.