IronMan?

It’s a strange job that I do. Today I was at BBC Radio Newcastle for a bit of chat about triathlons. It’d been organised by Keith from Highlights PR , who does the business for our team of enterprise coaches . I would have cycled into the studio, but I had good reason not to: For...
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Anyone seen my fitness? I’m sure I left it round here somewhere. I mean, I’ve turned the place upside down looking for it today, and I just can’t seem to find it anywhere. Let me think, where did I last have it? Oh yeah, during the Cleveland Steelman in July last year. Since then, I’ve...
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So I fanally got back to see my doctor about the nagging injury I picked up in my right foot this year. Basically, I think it’s an over-use strain of the plantar fascia (the tissue connecting heel to the the ball of the foot area), that I picked up when my running training took...
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On Saturday morning, I got up early (OK - early-ish), put the bike in the back of the car and drove down to Catterick to have a look around the Cleveland Steelman’s bike course. I’d programmed it into the satnav on my phone as an ‘itinerary’, with various waypoints setup to guide me round....
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You just have to go and read this post on Becoming Ironman right now. My favourite part: Last weekend I got on my bike at 4:45am. Clear dawn was rising on the left side of my road, and the end of a sinister thunderstorm was looming on the right side of the road. Between them, inviting...
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The training schedule had me down for a 45/10 brick this morning, so last night I was early to bed and raring to go when the alarm went off at just after six. My ride earlier in the week had left me a little sore in the . . . um . . . undercarriage...
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OK, so we’re back from visiting the Outlaws in France. A 2,000 mile round-trip, with three of us in the car, plus Huge Dalmatian, luggage, and two bikes strapped to the boot. Surely that’s gotta count as some sort of ‘other’ exercise in my training log? No? Oh well . . . . So my...
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OK, so I’m now six weeks out from my first half Iron-man race. It’s time to get all those little doubts and niggles about things like bike setup sorted out. My big worry is what handlebar setup to go for on this 58-mile, relatively flat course, and I hope YOU can give me some...
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It must be. I mean, it’s just got to be CGI, hasn’t it? Maybe it’s a promo for the Ironman movie (see how we got the triathlon link in there?) I hope it’s CGI, ‘cos otherwise it’s totally insane: Found over at Tomorrow Morning’s Weather.
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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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