Triathlon

Well, with my time off (all 44...
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It’s at about this point that I lose most of my readers. But here goes anyway . . . Toward the end of last week, I was feeling pretty low. Basically, I was just permanently tired, and really easily fatigued in training - not a good sign. Well, for the last few weeks, I’ve...
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I’m feeling a bit low this evening. I just don’t know what’s wrong with me - I’m just SO tired. OK, I am doing some training pretty much six days a week, and generally fairly early in the morning (starting before 7). There’s also that 125 miles a fortnight on the bike - but that’s...
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This is something I thought I’d grown out of - it’s a bit embarrassed actually. After I left a comment on Sloan’s Cycling Blog just over a week ago about how I’d got over my ‘Yeeehah I’m IN-DES-TRUC-TABLE!” cycling phase about fifteen years ago . . . I nearly got myself mashed tonight through...
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I’m a bit of an equipment geek - probably in the hope that I can buy my way out of a lack of ability . . . I had to get some new shorts at the weekend, and went to my local sports / chav-chic  super store. Next to the counter, they had a large...
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I had my induction at the gym yesterday evening. The alarmingly young personal trainer (is it me, or does everyone in uniform look younger these days - especially police). The usual measures - height, weight, lungs, body fat, heart rate, BP, etc. As expected, I could do with losing around 1.5 kg (a massive...
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My target this year is to get my 10k down to 40 minutes. I also want to graduate to Olympic distance triathlon (which features a 10k run). With my running fitness in rather poor shape, I’ve opted for a programme of interval training to get me back to peak pavement pounding performance. Interval training is...
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I’m quite happy with my chart for tracking progress towards my 2007 target of 3,000 cycle miles. But now I want to draw up something similar for my running. The problem is that my running target is more speed related - I want to achieve a personal best of 40 minutes for 10k. This is...
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In yesterday’s post I mentioned at the end that I was going to make a wall chart to track my progress toward my 3,000 bike miles goal. Adrian Finch (an aspiring 5,000 mile hero) asked if I use My Cycling Log, bikejournal or CycleSmart to keep track of my progress, and my reply was that...
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You may have noticed how much I was impressed by ZappoMan’s 5,000 bike miles (like here, here, here, and here ), and Adrian Finch stepping up for the same kind of punishment this year. Well as I’m in the mood for doing my training planing for this year (yeah, I know - nine...
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