Archive for June, 2008

Last Monday of the month means a 400m time trial at the NE31 Tri club. Not much to say about it, other than I’m now officially the slowest swimmer in the club. Of course, I can tell myself that I’ve been training for distance rather than speed, but it’s still annoying to be right...
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On Saturday morning, I got up early (OK - early-ish), put the bike in the back of the car and drove down to Catterick to have a look around the Cleveland Steelman’s bike course. I’d programmed it into the satnav on my phone as an ‘itinerary’, with various waypoints setup to guide me round....
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With only just over a week to go ’till race day, I’m starting to feel the pressure. Nothing I can’t handle - what happens next Saturday is now largely decided by the training I’ve done up to now. As the man said, Alea iacta est But it’s still kinda irritating - every time I think about...
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Nothing much else to say about this ‘un - its the start of my taper for real. Workout: Type: Run Date: 06/26/2008 Total Time: 00:40:00.00 Distance: 4 miles Average Pace: 10:00/mile
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. . . or a complete Muppet. I was booked to go into Newcastle this evening for a networking thing, and so headed off on my Sturdy Commuting Bike into a gusty headwind - late as usual, so I had to work really hard to get to the thing on time. I made it -...
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You just have to go and read this post on Becoming Ironman right now. My favourite part: Last weekend I got on my bike at 4:45am. Clear dawn was rising on the left side of my road, and the end of a sinister thunderstorm was looming on the right side of the road. Between them, inviting...
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So here’s an alternative way to deal with drivers who cut you up, shout at you, throw things out of the window, or otherwise act like you really shouldn’t be on their road. Be polite. I found the original article by Bill Strickland via Tomorrow Morning’s Weather. His basic approach is to catch the offending...
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Wife got me a present at the weekend - the DVD of Run Fat Boy, Run. This is a great film about a guy who blags himself an entry to a marathon with only three weeks to go ’till the race. He works really hard, and runs the race. Kind of. I mean, we...
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Last night at the NE31 Triathlon club was a great swim session - lots of endurance work at my race pace (i.e. not too fast then!). We did a 300m warmup, followed by two sets of 7×100m. The pace was set by the fastest guy in our lane, who swam at his target 400m...
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After the bike ride, I could tell that all was not well with my legs - I had some slight pain in both my vastus medialis muscles, that I’ve come to recognise from longer rides / pool session as a symptom of electrolyte problems prior to actual cramping. After putting the bike away, a quick...
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