Tagged: Triathlon

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Bike Box Packing

I thought I’d better have a practise run packing my bike into my new BikeBox Alan – I wouldn’t want to try doing it half an hour before heading for the airport only to find I couldn’t fit it in! It was actually fairly easy to do I first marked the position of the saddle and various...

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Aberystwyth Seaside Triathlon 2012 Photos

Well, the first ever Aberystwyth Seaside Triathlon was a roaring success. I hope everyone had a good day. I’m sure the competitors won’t agree with me but I reckon helping to organise and marshall all day is actually harder work than when I’m racing. I’ve now uploaded the photos I’ve taken to the Aberystwyth Seaside Triathlon...

Stress Fracture – The last thing I needed right now! 4

Stress Fracture – The last thing I needed right now!

I suppose it had to happen. If you ask Anna she’ll tell you that I always have something wrong with me before a race and it would seem as though the size /importance of the race is directly proportional to the severity of the injury. I haven’t done too badly this year, but I had shin...

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Blue Seventy Reaction Wetsuit Review

With the World Championships looming and my old TYR Hurricane wetsuit looking a little worse for wear I thought it was time to spend yet more money on this trip to Auckland and get a new wetsuit. I’d been looking around for a new one for a while and then noticed that Chain Reaction Cycles...

Aberystwyth Triathlon 0

Aberystwyth Triathlon

It’s take some organising (mainly by Sharon), but the first ever Aberystwyth Triathlon is on this weekend. Comprising of a 750m sea swim in the bay off North Beach, transition on the prom, a 30km ride up Penglais Hill, out to Tre Dddol and back and then a 5km run along the prom with a sneaky little...

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2013 European Championship Age-Group Triathlon Qualification

YEEESSSS!!! – Q1, Rother Valley Triathlon. Get in there, Alanya, Turkey here I come!!! OK, it wasn’t quite as exciting as my qualification for the World Championships earlier this year but I’m still pretty pleased. For a start this time I only gave myself one chance by only signing up for the final of 3 qualification events. If I didn’t...

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Rother Valley Triathlon – Race Report

I wasn’t really sure how this race was going to go. It was quite a big race being my one and only chance to qualify for the 2013 European Championships, but preparations hadn’t been great. I’d been training well but hadn’t necessarily peaked for this race, and I’d been struggling with injuries. The Injury List First...

Rother Valley Triathlon – Results 0

Rother Valley Triathlon – Results

The full results from yesterday’s Rother Valley Triathlon are out. Click here to read my Rother Valley Triathlon Race Report. I was first in my age group with an official time of 1:13:42 My official splits were: Swim (750m): 10:43 T1: 1:03 Bike (25.5km): 43:34 T2: 0:45 Run (5km): 17:39 I’m happy with that and...

Falling Apart 0

Falling Apart

I don’t know if it is just my usual pre-race pains but I seem to be falling apart at the moment. My left ankle is always sore. I tore some ligaments in it about 18 months ago and the soreness and aches used to come and go but recently they seem to be there all...

Manx End2End Preparations 0

Manx End2End Preparations

As per usual my next ‘race’ has come around sooner than anticipated – The Isle of Man End2End Challenge take place this weekend. It’s a 75km mountain bike race from the Northern tip of the Isle of Man to the Southern tip with plenty of big hills in between. I’m not actually ‘racing it’ and...