Do The Right Thing

The results from the 2008 Hebburn Triathlon have now been published on tri247.com:

Fat Robbie:   1:07:17 & 85th Overall;

Swim - 8:10 & 121st
Bike & T1 - 37:42 & 89th
Run & T2 - 21:25 & 77th

Me:  1:09:12 & 100th Overall;

Swim - 11:10 & 184th
Bike & T1 - 36:41 & 69th
Run & T2 - 21:21 & 75th

So there […]

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Today was the Hebburn Triathlon! Fat Robbie came up for the race, and as I’d managed to get us Early o’clock starts again, we had to get up at the crack of dawn. Yawn.
Seeing as I’ve got this niggling plantar frasciitis injury, I decided to take the race nice and easy - more of an […]

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. . . my just-like-I-do-it-in-training T2 had opened up about another 15 seconds on Robbie, putting me a total of about 25 seconds on the road ahead of him, and 1:35 behind him in the race. Could I make that up on the run?
As I set out from T2, I was already starting to do […]

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 . . . so Fat Robbie was about a minute or so ahead of me on the bike, on a two-lap course of 12 miles . . .
. . . by just under half way around the first lap, I’d closed the gap a little - there’s a stretch of the course where you do […]

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Robbie and I had both wangled early starts for the race - I was in at No. 19, setting off at 7:39, and he was No. 23, two minutes behind me. Fat Robbie’s a slightly faster swimmer than me, so I’d reckoned that we’d both be out of the water together.
Not so. Last year my […]

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OK, so as I got out of the water, they announced my name, and that I’d brought shame on the NE31 Triathlon Club by being last out of the water. OK - so no one mentioned shame, but that’s how I felt. Our coach, Peter was there to see how his (daughter? and) protegees did, […]

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Last Monday of the month means a 400m time trial at the NE31 Tri club. Not much to say about it, other than I’m now officially the slowest swimmer in the club. Of course, I can tell myself that I’ve been training for distance rather than speed, but it’s still annoying to be right at […]

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Last night at the NE31 Triathlon club was a great swim session - lots of endurance work at my race pace (i.e. not too fast then!). We did a 300m warmup, followed by two sets of 7×100m. The pace was set by the fastest guy in our lane, who swam at his target 400m pace […]

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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 region. […]

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It was one of those deeply unpleasant sessions at the NE31 Tri club last night. Too much work with the kickboard for my liking. I had a word with our coach about this after the session, and he says that my problem with kicking is that I either splay my legs (i.e. add drag), or […]

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