Triathlon

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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It’s that time of year again, when planning the next season takes hold. Actually, last month might have been that time of year, but better late than never. This year, I’m trying to stick to the Good Advice in Joe Friel’s Triathlete’s Training Bible (which is also available in the USA!). And to that end, I’ve...
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So I wanted to start the New Year off as I mean to continue. High tide was at 09:30, and the sea pretty calm, so it looked like I’d get to swim across the harbour & back to celebrate the start of 2008. Om the down side, the moon’s about half full at the moment,...
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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 managed to avoid this, though through August & September, there was a little trailing off on the hours. Maybe all those races had something...
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Well the results are out - provisional results anyway. But it makes no difference - Tall Friend beat me, by 84 seconds. The splits tell an interesting story: Swim (& T1): Karl - 11:07; Tall Friend - 9:59 I can account for all of this with being involved in the swimming pool traffic jam. Then again, there’s...
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So just the run left to do. Two laps of Warwick School’s playing fields, with around 400m on pavement around the outside of their grounds. Not much to say about this really . . . except that discipline at the school must be pretty strict. At the top corner of the course, next to the...
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So the swim wasn’t the fastest. But I’d had a look around the bike course, and was pretty confident that I could make up for it here. In transition everything went like clockwork - putting everything on in the right order, remembering to take a gulp from the bottle that wasn’t on the bike, and...
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It was the  . . . uh . . . usual race day wake up for me. How cool is that? I’v now got the experience to have ‘usual’ wake-ups. I don’t mean that they’re like the mornings where the alarm clock goes off and it’s time to get up for work / training / get...
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After the drive down to Tall Friend’s house (grotty traffic), I arrived just after 2pm. So after the usual ‘Hellos’ and unloading the car, we went for a walk around the park for ice creams & to exercise Tall Friend’s dogs (bouncy, bouncy creatures). It was one of those sunny but not hot days,...
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Nothing much to say - went to the pool on Friday afternoon for my weekly swim with Daughter. While she was playing, I did get a few lengths in, but although it’s now pain free, my shoulder did not feel right . . . and in fact, my left arm was quite sore on...
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