Triathlon

Now, I just love New Things. Especially when they seem designed for my own personal needs. That’s why I’m relocating this blog to sweat365.com, a blogging site-cum-community forum thing that’s been developed by Zappoman (Mr Brad Hefta-Gaub to the sober-suited buisiness-types that he has to talk to nowadays), Phil Sabin (an (ex?) sober-suited accountant...
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Yes, I will. 2008 or 2009? Now, that I don’t know. My instinct is to go for 2008, as a year later is a year’s further procrastination. But then again, to go from fit enough for a sprint to a full IronMan in 12 months is asking a lot of my body. I’ve had lots of...
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So if I’m going to raise my game I’ve got to learn to swim. Like you haven’t heard that before! Last night, I went to the NE31 Tri club’s Monday evening session at Hebburn baths. Hey, guess what? These guys can really swim. As it was my first session, I got in for free, and...
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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...
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“The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain . . . . . . but the wind in France blows mostly in yer face!” I went for a ride out on Sunday up into the edge of the hills to the North on Gabian & Roujan - a short “mad dogs & Englishmen” trip out...
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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...
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So this evening, we’re packing up the car and heading down to my parents’ in Kent, before catching the Sunday morning Ferry & then driving the length of France to The In-Laws. A couple of diferences with this trip though . . . . o The Huge Dalmatian’s pet passport is now active, so he’s...
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My hip’s pretty messed up after Sunday’s fall, and I’m starting to get really impatient to be heading back out . . . for any kind of exercise. On Monday I made the mistake of leaving the dressing off it to ‘help it dry out and speed up the healing’. Yeah, BIG mistake. By...
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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...
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Well here we are - my race is run, and having been so giddy with excitement, both I and Tall Friend managed to forget to start our stopwatches at the ‘off’. So neither of us have any idea of out total times, splits, or which of us clocked the fastest time. I guess we’ll...
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