IronMan?

As I was heading off to a party in That London for the weekend, I did my long ride on Friday. The plan was actually to do a Monster Brick session - 70 miles on the bike, and 8-10 miles running. For the bike route, I headed off into the hills of County Durham again,...
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What with the change in the clocks and generally being pretty tired, I didn’t set off at the crack of dawn for this one. If I had, I might have had some of the day left by the time I got home. The route was through Newcastle, and then off into the hills around Consett...
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Sundays. I’m not sure if I love ‘em or hate ‘em. These long bike rides are getting sillier, and will continue to do so over the next 10 weeks, till I hit my peak training distance of 100 miles (plus a half marathon run after, just for added spice!). This week’s was a mere 61...
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There’s this strange thing with coaches who don’t specialise in working with multi-sport athletes. They assume that we have all the time in the world, and that life isn’t a constant battle against the schedule, and that their particular sport is the one that we think we need to dedicate most every minute of...
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Two things about Ironman training: It takes up a lot of time You burn a LOT of calories So in the first week of March - the last of my Base 2 training period, I ate like a horse at every meal (to the point of feeling uncomfortably full), and I still dropped 3lbs over the week. Last...
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Yep. I’m pretty good at this. Usually it’s because I forget to drink enough before / during / after exercise. Or I drink the wrong kind of stuff (Guinness may well be good for you, but not during a race!). But this one was a whole new experience in incompetence for me… … I was...
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I had a session with a new swimming coach yesterday morning. She’s really good at giving negative feedback - stuff you need to be told, yet delivered in a way that doesn’t pop your bubble completely. That’s the good news. The bad news is that I’m now looking at three pool sessions a week, plus a...
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Something really strange happened yesterday. It wasn’t raining, and the sky was a really strange colour - blue. It just didn’t feel right to be running in such conditions, though looking onthe bright side, it was unbelievably cold. There were areas of the pavement where the waves had splashed up during the night, and...
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Running last night in the universally crappy weather, I was listening to my iPod (also keeps the cold out of my ears - I don’t like ear ache!). It was the usual selection of songs for training, and just perfect to help me visualise the Ironman race. For big, long races like this, having...
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Friday is long run day. So I left work early, and managed to get home, changed and out by 4:30. Driving home, I thought the weather looked almost spring-like, and I was tempted to go out with just a couple of T-shirt layers on. I was glad I didn’t though, and instead opted for...
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