Ashington

So you remember the publicity stunt I did for my Macmillan fundraising ? (what?! you mean you haven’t already made a donation? Don’t worry - the page is still open! Just get your credit card out and go to www.justgiving.com/karlonsea/ ) The one where I got a local barber to shave my legs with...
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Thursday is bike day for work, and again I had a whole lot of time with clients scheduled - at their premises rather than mine, so that meant sensible, civilised cycling. I’m sure I could have planned this better, but I ended up doing nearly 40 miles . . . . . . and...
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Another week, another monday lunchtime swim. The pace was good - bang on target in fact. But I’m just sooo tired. Maybe I need more sleep? Workout: Type: Swim Date: 05/10/2010 Time: 12:21:12 Total Time: 00:49:00.00 Calories: 358 Distance: 2,011.68 m Average Pace: 2:26.2/100m
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65 mile bike ride: Just exactly how can the chuffing wind be in my face the whole way round? And given that it’s nearly the middle of May, why is it so sodding cold? And why are the road surfaces still in such shamefully poor condition? And how come no-one told me that when the sun shines,...
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So having realised that my running shoes had done somewhere over 500 miles, and that even short runs (like last Saturday’s jog around the park with Von Smallhaussen) were causing my knees problems, it was time to get a new pair: Yep - I went for another pair of Asics Gel Cumulus (my fifth...
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Thursday is a bike day. We won’t let the weather, the clients we have to see, or the errands we have to run put us off doing it all on two-wheels. And this week, I had all three - cold & drizzly first thing in the morning; a meeting with a client that required...
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I, on the other hand, found the duvet too heavy to crawl out from. So I didn’t get to the pool ’till "late", and only had time for 64 lengths. Just. So. Tired. All. The. Time. Workout: Type: Swim Date: 04/29/2010 Total Time: 00:37:00.00 Calories: 270 Distance: 1,463.04 m Average Pace: 2:32.17/100m
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After yesterday’s ride, I was glad of the eight hours sleep I got last night, but still felt pretty tired this morning. Thankfully, my swim wasn’t scheduled until lunchtime, and even though I didn’t really feel like it, I headed off to the pool. Turns out that I wasn’t as tired as I thought, and...
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So I was just over 14 miles in, when I ran past a little girl out for a walk with her mummy. She must’ve been no more than four years old, pigtails, and a bright red school cardigan. Just about the cutest vision of childhood that you’d ever see (excepting my Daughter, of course). As...
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My swimming is definitely coming together - I remember when swimming 2000 yards would seem like a long way, something only to be attempted with lots of breathers, resting & the like. Not any more. It’s still not fast , but that’s not my aim. The swim is just the warm-up for the Ironman ....
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