Do The Right Thing

I may have been over-doing things with the running - especially the hill repeats. I’ve got some aching in my right achilles tendon, around the heel, and along the outside edge of the sole.
I even went so far as to buy a book on running injuries today. Yeah, I know - self diagnosis instead of […]

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. . . but not for me this year
I looked into finding a corporate sponsor to fund it . . . but everyone I know is obviously a lot more shrewd than they look. So I took a scalpel to the budget, and worked out how I could optimise the use of my […]

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Every year, I tend to let my fitness slip over the summer - my high hopes and ambitions get dusted with pollen & generally sneezed over. This year I’ve [mostly] managed to avoid this, though through August & September, there was a little trailing off on the hours. Maybe all those races had something to […]

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. . . . and I’m relegated to driving instead of cycling. It took me a whole half hour today to decide that my neck & shoulder really isn’t better, and I should take Lisa’s excellent advice and rest it until I’ve been checked over by someone who

Knows what they’re talking about
Hasn’t got a vested […]

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We’ll get to exactly why my bike’s possessed later . . .
Today was the Hebburn / Tyne & Wear Fire Service Triathlon. It’s my local club’s race, and in the spirit of giving as well as taking from club membership, I kinda had to turn up early to help with getting the event set up. […]

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. . . or as the locals might say, “La brique en France”.
Today’s our last day here, and I wanted to ‘go out with a bang’. So I set out for a brick at Olympic distance - 25 mile bike and 10k run. For the bike, I extended the route from earlier in the […]

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This morning I set out to do a really thrilling & exciting training session - NOT! Maybe I’m just enjoying cycling & swimming too much, but just now running is kinda a chore. Still, at least this morning I was on a MISSION:
1. Measure my lactate threshold as per Bill’s instructions.
2. Measure my sweat rate […]

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On yesterday evening’s run, I was wearing my cheep & cheerful HRM. And I’m worried about what it was telling me.
My calculated HRmax is either 183 (220- age) or 184 (the formula that also uses resting HR). For much of the run, I was in the high 150s, or about 80%. But every time I […]

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So on Sunday we drove down through France. The 07:00 ferry meant an 04:45 start, and then it was 700 miles of mainly motorway driving. Some really bad weather in the plains before the Massifs Centrale (rain like you wouldn’t believe), left us all really tired by the time we arrived in Gabian.
After last week […]

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Shockingly enough, Tall Friend beat me, and by only 19 seconds!
The splits (which include T1 & T2 somewhere) were:
Karl: 209th out of 542: Swim 10:01 / Bike 46:59 / Run 22:24 / Total 1:19:24
Tall Friend: 203rd out of 542: swim 8:07 / Bike 48:13 / Run 22:45 / Total 1:19:05
So on the face of it, […]

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