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… and more on getting old, but not getting frail
I had a busy racing weekend recently. I marshalled at our club's excellent cross country event on the Saturday then ran a half marathon the next day. The cross country was a great event with races for juniors from under 13 right up to the vets where I don't think...
Strictly pilates
I'm thrilled that Strictly Come Dancing has started again. Over the years the sequins have gradually sucked me in to the point where I can't miss an episode and will even try to watch It Takes Two on weekday evenings at 6.30. One of the aspects of the programme that...
Back to a bit of speed training
Well, shock horror - I've been doing some quality running sessions! I've never been a fast runner - especially when I compare myself to my esteemed club mates at Winchester & District AC - but whatever speed I ever had from training for marathons has gone, since...
Ironman number 2 – done
I will do a proper post about this when I get back from holiday, but for the time being - on 7th August I completed Ironman Regensburg in 13 hours 41 minutes. I just scraped a PB by 5 mins. Not a lot, but a PB's a PB. The swim was 5 mins slower, the bike was 15 mins...
A glimpse at the life of a full time athlete
Earlier this month I did a week's training camp in Lanzarote. What an eye opener. And what a great week! It was a triathlon/running camp organised by Martin Yelling, Liz Yelling and Ian Corless. Liz obviously focussed on running (she's in her pre-London phase so was...
Calling all runners in Winchester!
Just in case you're reading this and you live in or around Winchester, you might be interested in this. I'm an endurance running coach at Winchester & District AC (WADAC) and we're about to make a real effort to attract a broader range of runners to the club. We...
More on caffeine… it's not all bad
Actually, now that I can see that last post about caffeine, the headline makes it all look a bit scary, when in fact caffeine is not all bad for endurance athletes. One of the reasons I've weaned myself off fully-leaded coffee is to make the effects of caffeine more...
Beware of the caffeine
Last week I'd been looking forward to rewarding my arrival at the end of my training week with a frothy coffee at Cafe Nero. It was Friday morning, I'd done a good, long swim and had the luxury of a rest day on Saturday before a race on Sunday. The coffee was nectar...
Train, recover. Train, recover. Repeat.
Well, I'm well and truly back into ironman training. This is week 6 of a 30-week programme. At this stage it's all low intensity endurance work, building up the ability over 10 weeks or so, to swim and bike the full ironman distance (swim 2.4 miles and bike 112...
I am an ironman!
Well, I did it! I completed my first ironman-distance triathlon on 18th July 2010 at Roth, Germany. I'll write more about it soon but for the timebeing all you need to know is that I am thrilled to have done it in 13 hours, 46 mins and 24 seconds. It was very...
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