Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
After analysing my performance in the Big Cow Triathlon I decided once again that I need to improve my cycling. The Big Cow Triathlon was the British National Age-Group Championships and I placed as follows in each discipline: Swim: 4th Bike: 19th Run: 5th Total: 6th As you can see, it was the bike leg...
I suddenly seem to have more events and races planned than I thought, although the relative importance of these has changed. July 15th – Bristol Harbourside Triathlon. This was an ‘A’ priority race as it is a World Championship qualifying race, but having already qualified it will now be a fairly unimportant race for me....
Having qualified for the ITU Age-Group World Championships on my first attempt, this years training schedule has changed a little. I was expecting to still be pushing hard and aiming to peak again for a second chance at qualifying at the the Bristol Harbourside Triathlon on July 15th. That is no longer necessary it’s back to base level...
I don’t want to give away all of my secrets, but Beetroot Juice is all the rage at the moment in the sports world. The very high levels of nitrates in beetroot juice are thought to dilate capillaries in the body allowing blood flow to the muscles to be increased. In addition, the high levels...
Look what just came in the post. A whole pile of free GU Goodies courtesy of the fact that I completed a Strava Challenge. The GU 100,000 mile challenge ran from March 9th to April 9th, The challenge was to rack up as many miles as you could. “The more miles you ran, the more...
I may still be in a bit of a ‘post peak slump‘, but it’s time to start getting on with some training. On Wednesday I was supposed to do a long interval run with 5 lots of 1 mile efforts followed by 3 mins recovery. I wasn’t really in the mood so instead did a...
My Periodised Training Plan that I was working towards along with my coach seems to have worked well. I peaked for my race at the Big Cow Triathlon and managed to attain my goal of qualifying for the ITU Age-Group World Championships. I may have been there, done that and got the ‘T’-shirt (thermal top...
May 27th 2012, Big Cow Triathlon, one of my ‘A Priority’ races this year and something I’d been working hard towards for months. I’m still relatively new to this triathlon malarky having only started last year and this was my first big, higher profile race. Not only were there close to 1000 competitors, many more...
Those of you who know me or read this blog regularly will know that I’ve been training hard for triathlons this year. The weekend just gone was the first of two big races I had planned so everything had been gearing up ready for the weekend. Training had been going well, I’d put in the hard work,...
I’ve got a triathlon coming up at the weekend, the first of my ‘big’ races this year. It’s not big in terms of distance as it is still a sprint distance triathlon, but it is a higher profile event with considerably more entrants than the previous races I;ve done. The entrants are also on a...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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