Cleveland Steelman

Last Brick Before Cleveland Steelman

Last Brick Before Cleveland Steelman

The training schedule had me down for a 45/10 brick this morning, so last night I was early to bed and raring to go when the alarm went off at just after six. My ride earlier in the week had left me a little sore in the . . . um . . . undercarriage...
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Cleveland Steelman: I’m going to DIE!

Feeling very low for one reason or another at the moment - it’s probably because I’ve just finished the end of Build 2 of my training programme . . . and I’m just starting off on the Taper . . . and I SO want it to be over. So to cheer myself up, I...
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TT Setup

Three weeks to race day, and I’ve changed my bikes handlebars back from the factory-fitted standard drops, to a TT setup - a Profile Airwing base bar, T2+ aero bars (with risers fitted under the elbow pads), Dura Ace bar end shifters, and Crane Creek brake levers. On sunday, I went for a short...
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France: HUGE Summing up, Part I

OK, so we’re back from visiting the Outlaws in France. A 2,000 mile round-trip, with three of us in the car, plus Huge Dalmatian, luggage, and two bikes strapped to the boot. Surely that’s gotta count as some sort of ‘other’ exercise in my training log? No? Oh well . . . . So my...
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Handlebar Advice Urgently Requested!

OK, so I’m now six weeks out from my first half Iron-man race. It’s time to get all those little doubts and niggles about things like bike setup sorted out. My big worry is what handlebar setup to go for on this 58-mile, relatively flat course, and I hope YOU can give me some...
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“Endurance” Swim

With my parents arriving last night, I missed the NE31 club’s swim session. So I headed off to Tynemouth pool this morning for a short-ish swim. Unlike the club swims though, I did this as a more or less continuous effort. None of that hanging around at the end of the pool chatting &...
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Steps & Hills. Tough Combination

For this morning’s run with Shana, we did the steps between here and Tynemouth. Basically you run along the promenade, and every time you get to a set of steps, you have to use ‘em. I think she found this pretty hard going, so for the return, we just ran along the flat. I’m...
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Training Plan For Cleveland Steelman

Training Plan For Cleveland Steelman

Remember the kid at school who spent ages putting together the perfect exam revision timetable? The one that was colour coded, with each subject highlighted, and every hour of spare time between now and the exams planned out in meticulous detail? That was me. Of course, the knack is to schedule the time to plan out...
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