My coach had decided that I should do a couple of local sportives if they fitted around my plan to get some practice at having an organised ride with fuelling stops. So I entered two, Sarn Helen Sportif and between the two Outlaws an Evans Cycles Cotswold ride. In the week leading up to my […]
Well 68 days now actually. I’ve just finished a sustained 3 week block of training culminating in my longest training session yet on the weekend. Starting with the week in Mallorca and then 2 weeks of increased planned training I’ve done some good numbers in this period. 29 activities in 21 days. 73K run in
I have just returned from a week in Mallorca with K. It was so nice to get some sunny weather and we felt we both needed a break. One nice extra aside to a trip to the Balearics was that I would be able to get a bit of cycling in that I’d not been able to
After buying my new bike in June I was aware that the worst component on the bike, other than the fatso on top obviously, was the wheels. It was for this reason that I kept my old Kinetic One wheels rather than the Mavic’s the bike normally comes with. I’d done some casual research into
This came to my attention care of one of my favourite bloggers DC Rainmaker who is *the* man when it comes to reviewing sport based gadgets from turbo trainers to running watches and everything in between. Leikr are a bunch of guys formerly from Nokia who are creating a running/cycling watch to rival what Garmin offer. It’s main
K joined NEWT a few months ago and while I was considering it I never got round to it. Despite feeling rubbish at the time and with two weeks out of the pool I went along to the swimming class on the 8th where they do a monthly assessment for new members. This assessment is
Been a while since I last blogged and have several stories to catch up on. much like everyone else training over the last few weeks has been a bit on and off. I had big plans to work hard with my training as I had two weeks off over Christmas but as with many others
If my training plan is to be believed, I’m kinda hoping it’s fibbing to me at the moment, I should be beating my swim distance PBs repeatedly this month but today saw my first significant jump in distance. The longest I’ve done done since Marcus set me a plan is 1300m and I’ve only swum
In seven months or 212 days I will be, all being well, somewhere near Nottingham on my bike. I’ll be part way through 112 miles of bike ride having already swum 2.4 miles. Currently the longest I’ve ever ridden my bike in one go is 52 miles and I’ve never swum more than an Oly
After a pretty decent start to my triathlon training in October the wheels fell off a bit in November mainly down to a cold I picked up. It never got too bad but I felt terrible for an hour or two after waking up and pool chlorine just knocked me for six. I could continue