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Long Course Weekend – Great Wales Sportive
The Great Wales Sportive was my first full iron distance bike ride. I wasn’t that concerned about it, as I have already done 4 other 100 mile rides this year, so this was only a few miles further. However, it also came with quite a bit of elevation compared to […]
Long Course Weekend – Great Wales Swim
The Great Wales Swim was the event I was most dreading. Apart from one 3km swim in a lake, which involved plenty of breaststroke, I had never swum 2km or more before. Now I was staring at 3.8km, and not just that. It was in a sea, with around 1600 other swimmers, and with schools […]
Last Long Run Done!
With 4 weeks to go, it’s probably my last longish run, but I managed to get out today and struggle around 30km at a steady 5min/km pace. Overall I felt quite good. There wasn’t much in my legs, but I was fine shuffling along at that pace. Any hills towards the end and I would […]
4 weeks to go
4 weeks today is The Outlaw. Its a real mix of emotions when I think of that. There is a sense of pride in that it is within touching distance, and I know I am in shape to get around. Then there is the nervousness and the fear, tinged with some excitement. You could always […]
IM 70.3 Staffs Photos
I splashed the cash buying the photos, so I may as well show some of them off:
Outlaw Triathlon Musings
With Niamh over in Ireland on Friday and Saturday, it gave me the chance to do some hard training. This sounds great, but to be honest, I’m sick of the effort, I’m bored of training on my own, and I hate feeling constantly tired. I’ve started to resent the amount of time this is taking […]
IM 70.3 Staffs – Race Review
The first big day of the year has come and gone, and I couldn’t be happier with how well it all went. My official times (along with a summary and a placing out of all male only age group athletes between 18-54 that finished) Swim: 40:47 (2:08/100m) The swim went as well as expected. I […]
Countdown to Ironman 70.3 Staffordshire
Its now only a few days to go until my first big race of the year – Ironman 70.3 Staffordshire. This is the first of the 3 major triathlons I have entered. 6 months ago, I was uncertain whether I would be on the start line following the injury nightmares of 2014, but I have […]
May Update
Swim It was actually a better month with the swimming then it looked on the face of it. I felt I had stalled for some time, and just wasn’t improving. I’m a huge believer in the concept that if you do things the same, you will always end up with the same results. It was […]
4.5 months that will change my life forever
I was driving back this evening, and started looking forward to the end of September. It then struck me just how enormous these next 4.5 months are going to be in my life. I am never a fan of the melodramatic, but I think in this case it is fair to say that these will […]