Category: Triathlon

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British Sprint Triathlon Championship, Eton Dorney – Race Report

May 17th 2014 already? Time for the Human Race British Sprint Triathlon Championships at Eton Dorney and what should have been an ‘A’-priority race for me. Training had been going quite well over the winter but the last 6 weeks or so hadn’t been quite so good. As I’ve posted elsewhere I just didn’t feel that...

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Race Ready Toes

With a race at the weekend, it would be rude not to have new toes wouldn’t it? And you know what that means – yep, you have to endure yet another photo of my feet! What’s the race? The British Sprint Triathlon Championships at Eton Dorney on Saturday, and ‘No’, I don’t feel ready for...

Pre-Race Jitters 3

Pre-Race Jitters

Anna would say that it is just my normal pre-race jitters, but with the British Sprint Triathlon Championships coming up in Eton in little over a weeks time things aren’t looking good for me at the moment. A Matter of Priority Training has been a little lack lustre for a while now and I’m just...

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Busy Bank Holiday

Seeing as we didn’t have a huge amount planned for the Bank Holiday weekend and were simply staying at home we seemed to pack quite a bit in. Triathlon Training and Animations on the Big Screen Saturday started with a bike ride for me, just a quick ride towards Machynlleth, a quick blast around the...

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1 mile repeats

It’s supposed to be a recovery week this week for me but yesterday’s session was 3x 1 mile repeats with 3 minutes between intervals and the aim was to increase to speed for each mile. I set my Garmin Forerunner 910XT up for the workout, inputting target zones of 6:40 – 6:30 mins/mile for the...

A New Half Marathon PB 0

A New Half Marathon PB

Whilst away for the weekend at Steve and Biddy’s Wedding I at far too much – Well, one measure of a good celebration should be calories consumed thanks to beer, food and cakes, and if it is, then this was a good celebration! I therefore wanted to make sure I got my scheduled Sunday morning run in...

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An Explosive Swim

Unfortunately last nights training session didn’t go too well. I decided to join the Ystwyth CC Chain Gang, so turned up at Rhydepennau at the prescribed time, met up without about 30 other cyclists and then we split into 4 groups and started off around the Borth loop. Crash! For a start it was quite a...

A New Sports and Exercise Job for Al 0

A New Sports and Exercise Job for Al

Well, that felt odd this morning… Heading off to work while the sun was shining and Anna and Morgan were off at home. It’s usually the other way around, I’m the one staying at home whilst they head off to school and work, but not today thanks to my new(ish) job at the University. Yes,...

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Newtown Triathlon – Race Report

My first race of the season, and I’d picked a fairly local, fairly low key event in the form of the Newtown Triathlon to get things started. With only about 60 places available in the race it was never going to be hugely competitive and would therefore hopefully allow me to get a bit of...

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Pre-Race Tinkering

With my first race of the year tomorrow, now probably isn’t the most sensible time to perform open-freehub surgery on my bike. It’s too late though, pre-race tinkering is what I’ve been doing! The rear wheel and more specifically the amount of drag in the rear wheel has been annoying me for ages. I’ve tried,...