IronMan?

Well I thought I had a good swim today. I managed to do each of my reps at the target pace, and breathing on both sides (to the left going down the pool, and the right on the way back up). It was far from perfect - especially breathing on my weaker...
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Not such a good ride on Sunday - not sure why, but I just couldn’t find my rhythm. When I got a puncture at the 18-mile mark, I was pretty cheesed off. You just wouldn’t believe the thorn that had gone through the tyre - I couldn’t pull it out from the inside...
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Ironman. My feeling is that it’s a long, hard race. It seems that every couple of days, I get completely spooked out by it. OMG, what if I don’t make the swim cut-off time? (2h:15m) What if the bike goes badly - I’ve got to finish that by 10h:45m from race start. That means just 8h:30m to...
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My thoughts… … that sea looks quite choppy, with a lot of people for me to get in the way of. I’d better hang back at the start or I’m going to get well and truly swum over! … those climbs in the first half of the bike course look pretty brutal. Also interesting to note...
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Another day where my motivation was low . . . but I ground on through anyway. To begin with, there was the whole thing of getting out of bed - after an early night, I’d had nearly nine hours’ sleep, but the bed was sooo warm, and the bedroom freezing cold. Then there was the drive...
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Last week I was in the pool, chatting to Gary from Tri Northumberland (speaking of which - have you seen that the Ashington Sprint Triathlon is FULL ? If you’re thinking of doing one of the Northumberland triathlons, you’d better sign-up SOON!) about how bloody cold it is out on the bike at the...
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OK Folks, here it is: The final version of the Excel Triathlon Training Planner! What it’s for: Planning the training for large events (marathons, Ironman races, ultra-races, your first half-marathon etc), or for a series of smaller races (a whole bunch of 10k races in a year, or several sprint triathlons, etc) can be...
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Sundays are the days for long rides. The only problem is that it’s still freezing cold here, even major roads are icy, and yesterday it was blowing a gale (Norway is a few hundred miles across the North Sea, but I’m sure I could hear Norwegian voices outside . . .) So I set up...
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Look what turned up in my email this week: I’m sure the sentiment’s one of kindness, but do they not know how painfully aware I am that there are just 169 days left to go now? *Gulp*
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It’s that time of year when we kid ourselves that we can become better people by making New Year’s resolutions. Actually, we CAN become better people, but only making resolutions that are set up to succeed from the outset. No, I’m not talking about aiming low (the biggest risk of setting ourselves low...
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