Project 2015 Blog
This blog follows my attempt to train for a long distance triathlon in 2015
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 […]
April Update
Swim It was a hugely disappointing month with swimming. I’m not too sure what happened, but the swimming just seemed to get harder and the times got slower. I was over in Ireland for a week over Easter, and ended up not going at all. There were also lots of other events on that just […]
March Update
I’m very late adding a March update considering it’s almost the end of April now, but here goes: Swim The swimming is still improving (don’t read the April update when it comes out). I went 12 times during the month, and increased my best distance to 1500m without stopping, which is a huge improvement on […]
Lionheart Sportive – 22-Mar-2015
Sunday 22nd March saw me achieve a big goal in completing my first ever century ride at the Lionheart Sportive! It was chilly to start off with and a bit breezy at times, but overall I couldn’t have asked for a better day weather-wise. My longest ride this year was 111km last weekend around the […]
February Update
Overall, it’s turned out to be a great month training wise, and I feel in a much better place than just a couple of months ago. Going through in triathlon order: Swim I’ve made a real effort to go swimming 3 times a week, and it’s starting to pay off. I’m only swimming a total […]