IronMan?

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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. . . 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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We’ve come to Carcassonne to be tourists for the day around the restored medieval city & castle. And guess what? This weekend is the Carcassonne Triathlon! Saturday is a super-sprint, while there’s an Olympic & ½IM on Sunday. Next year, I’ll be here for the race.
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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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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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As part of my serious reflection (Ha!) on IronMan, I read Stuart Staples’ book, Not Normal Behaviour over the weekend. This tells the story of Stuart’s year from sitting in the garden admiring his new landscaping (and realising that there must be more to life that this), to taking part in the 2001 Lake Placid...
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I’m giving myself the whole of May to make up my mind about IronMan. Who an I kidding? I’ve probably already made up my mind, so now I’m seeking a slightly more balanced viewpoint, and allowing myself time to really think hard about what the training commitment will mean. So if you’d like to contrubute...
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