Goals

After the near drowning I had on Tuesday night, a sensible person would have driven to the meetings I had yesterday - three hours on site with a client in Walker, lunch in the Team Valley, visiting a friend’s business in Durham to see their swish operation, and then setting the world to rights...
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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...
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Riding Wilf this week, my left shoulder’s been sore again. By sore, I mean aching from my elbow, right up over the shoulder to my neck just below the ear, with the sort of pain that threatens to make me go cross-eyed. I was somewhat underwhelmed with  the physiotherapy I had in the summer, and...
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I’ve updated my chart that tracks my progress toward my cycling goal. Actually I update it at least every fortnight, so what I mean is that I’ve put an updated copy on this page (when you get there, you can click to enlarge). A quick word of explanation about the chart’s anatomy: The x-axis across the...
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There’s been some discussion about autumn running attire recently. And today was definitely an opportunity for me to try mine out - it was raining cats & dogs at 06:30, which was the time I’d arranged with Shana to go for our run this morning. I was wearing track tights, a long-sleeved micro fleece, an...
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So here’s my cycling mileage plan for this week: 30 yesterday 15 today 15 tomorrow morning 30 tomorrow afternoon 15 in the Sunday morning spin class If I manage all of those, then I’ll be less than 500 miles from my goal mileage. I’m finding that as I get closer to the target, I’m accelerating my mileage - it’s almost...
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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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It’s been weird today - no races coming up in the next few weeks. Nothing to train for. Nothing to work for. Nothing to live for. Er. . . hold on a minute. Let’s just rewind that. Today is an official rest day. In fact, the whole week is pretty much in the diary as a...
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2008? Already? Yep. My goals for next year represent quite a serious shift up the ladder, so I’m going to have to do some real training. Getting enough sleep, having an actual plan, and periodisation. Stuff like that. At the moment, I’m looking at three triathlons - Stratford Sprint (400m swim, 23k bike, 5k run) as...
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So Saturday was my first attempt at my goal of 10K in 40 minutes. For this, I’d selected the Wallsend Harriers 10K road race circuit. This is a local race that I’ve run before, and it’s a good fast course. I also had my friend The Irishman come along on his bike. I knew...
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