More Big Cow Photos
Just some more photos from the Big Cow Triathlon last weekend. This time from Graham & Sharon, although I think Graham must have had the camera set on a weird Tilt-shift ‘miniaturisation’ mode for some reason!
Category: Triathlon
ITU Age-Group World Championship Qualification
YEEESSSS!!! – Q1, Big Cow. Get in there, Auckland here I come!!! That may not mean much to some of you, but it’s a big deal to me. As you’ll know, I’ve been training pretty hard for triathlons over the last year and really ramped up the swim, biking and running in 2012. It wasn’t pure madness,...
Big Cow 2012 Photos
I’m not sure if there was an official race photographer at the Big Cow Triathlon on Sunday. Anna took one or two photos of me though which I added to my race report as did my Dad so here are a few of his photos from the event.
Big Cow Triathlon 2012 – Race Report
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...
Final Race Prep – Trip to A&E Wasn’t in the Plan
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,...
Race Preparations
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...
A New PB – and it hurt!
After a fairly lack lustre bike and run session on Thursday evening and then a similarly poor turbo trainer session on Friday I wasn’t really looking forward to a hard bike session followed immediately by a hard run on Saturday. I was coming to the end of a hard week of training, my achilles was...
Speeding Things Up
With race season in the triathlon world on its way, it time to start working on some speed in my training rather than the strength and endurance workouts I’ve been doing for the last 8 weeks or so. As part of my periodised training plan I’m moving from the strength and endurance phase into a...
Reaching Breaking Point
Well, I hope this week of training has had some lasting benefit as it’s been quite a tough one. Within my periodisation I’m just coming to the end of a Strength and Endurance phase before staring on some more speed / race focused work. Within my 3-weekly, Medium, High, Recovery cycle it was a high...
Triathlon Cycling Shoes for a Fast Transition
My never ending quest to get faster feet continues. It worked quite well with my recent purchase of some new race shoes for running. A few days after buying them I wore them for the first time in a race and put in a massive personal best for a 5km run. So, with that success...
