Tagged: Triathlon

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Back to it with the Training

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...

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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!

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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,...

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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.  

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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...

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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...

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Atrocious Training

Well, that was exciting! Whatever happened to Spring? It’s horrendous out there and much more like winter. The air temperature has been around 4-5ºC all morning and according to the weather station in our garden the wind has been at around 40-50 knots all day so far. Needless to say it is pretty wild out...

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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...

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Racing High, Training Low

After the highs of my race in Pwllheli last weekend, the rest of a week has been a bit of a low training wise. I had an easy little spin on the turbo trainer on Monday and then went for an easy run but didn’t feel too good on it. I put it down to...

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Pwllheli Triathlon 2012 – Race Report

April 1st already and time for Pwllheli Triathlon, my first race of the season – will the winter training have paid off? Will I be any faster? How will the competition do? The first race of the season is always a bit of an unknown, but less so than last year when it was also...