Triathlon

This caught my eye on Liz Fedofsky’s blog this evening: …. And then the frozen peas were passed around. One thing I keep learning from other athletes is how much time the care of the body takes. Sometimes I think I’m the only one that spends half her day with a ball crammed into her...
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I’ve slowly become addicted to getting a daily dose of the comic strip, Yehuda Moon and The Kickstand Cyclery. It’s the story of two guys running a bike shop - each one of them representing opposite sides of cycledom. Joe, who seems to wear Lycra & ride head-down with a helmet perched on his...
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In preparation for this weekend’s fun, I got myself a new hydration / fuel belt - an Asics Barrios Bottle Belt. In line with my principal that I never try anything out for the first time on Race Day, I took this out for a trial on my run with Shana on Tuesday morning -...
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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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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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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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