November aka Month Two of my Outlaw Training Plan. Here are the (rather mediocre) stats for the month. 15 training sessions done out of 23 scheduled (a cold and the weather didn’t help) 34K run in 3 hours 45. 199K cycled in just under 8 hours, 94K of that on a turbo 4400m swum in […]
October is over and so ends month one of my Outlaw Training Plan. Here are the stats for the month. 25 training sessions done out of 27 scheduled (I had pretty good reasons for the two missed) 59K run in 6 and a half hours. 283K cycled in 11 and a half hours, almost exactly
Easily the worst week of training so far. All was going well and last Wednesday I woke early to do a turbo session. I had a look online and saw that the Outlaw Half had opened for entries so quickly got my name down, what better training event than half of the main one. From
I’m now into week 3 of my training plan for Outlaw and currently I’m 12 and 0 in terms of sessions. Good for me as there were definitely a few I might not have done had I not had a coach peering over my training diary. More after the jump.
Today was the first day of my Ironman training plan. Nothing major to start, just trying to build up some fitness and endurance and get used to training six days a week. Oddly, while I always struggle to sleep before an event, I had a similarly restless experience last night even waking up before my
I’ve thought long and hard about and taken on many people’s thoughts but have decided, with some encouragement from watching IM Wales I know what I’m going to do in 2013. Having discussed it with K I’ve realised that the opportunity might not come up again and I can really dedicate myself to this for
Here I set out my tri background and the relevant facts leading me up to making a decision about what I target in 2013. I hope that by writing it all down it will both clear the murky waters in my mind and others can help me make the decision.
Very long overdue blog update but I wrote this and thought it should be uploaded here. Might even start writing some more entries!
Since tri season finished I’ve been pretty focused on the running. Going out 3 times a week for distances of between 8 and 16K and managing to steadily improve my average speed. I agreed to enter the Marathon back after Kathryn and Ian did Bath but I didn’t initially sign up as I wanted to
Not the Darwinian sense this one but a “high-octane urban-based running event with obstacles designed to keep you on your toes” as the organizers put it. Supposed to be 10K but actually more like 14K the race started and finished at the Millenium Centre via the Millenium Stadium but by way of a pile of