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In Sickness and in Health
At the start of the week I scribbled out a rough training plan, totted up the hours then put a couple of exclamation marks after them when it came to 45!! One week later (and yes late with a post again) and my Sunday has become a Beach Day sans beach of course. I missed […]
Walking like John Wayne
I’ve had a day to chill out, hobble about a bit and think over the race. That said I already had plenty of time in the race to think things over! Firstly I have to say being out there for 12 hours is hard going. That’s the longest I’ve ever been on the bike in […]
The Pain in Spain
Just a quick one by way of explaining my terrible, terrible race yesterday. I mentioned a saddle sore in my last post. I possibly understated the problem as unfortunately it meant I could barely sit the entire bike ride. I think a trip to the doc will be in order on return to the UK […]
Final Preparations
Sorry this has got bumped and bumped as I go through my final race prep the past few days. That’s despite yesterday being a full rest day, somehow I didn’t get round to blogging. So now the day before the race and just a quick one. I think I’m in much better shape pre-race than […]
Beach Day!
I’ve been looking forward to this all week – another beach day! An opportunity to relax and put in some solid effort on the tan. Having spent months in Oz most of my rest days involved the beach. It doesn’t make much sense back home, but rest days are stuck as beach days in my […]
Hard at Work
It’s been a busy week so posting has drifted till now. Lanzarote is proving to be a perfect training location. The weather, lack of distractions and having meals provided at your hotel makes it easy to go out there and train. End result is that somehow I’ve done about 35 hours the past week without […]
What Went Wrong?
Not the title I wanted for my race report, but this time it’s the one I’ve ended up with. If things had gone to plan then I would have got the Hawaii slot, but they don’t give those out for planning a race. I was optimistic in the weeks leading up to this race, but […]
Personal Worst!
Ugh! This is going to be quick… I have no idea what happened today. Let’s just say nothing really felt right all day. I had a terrible, terrible swim getting boxed in early on (because unlike most of the front group I didn’t drift beyond the start line) and losing a lot of time in […]
The Plan
With only a few hours left before I turn in for an early night pre-race I’d better get the plan up. Good news is daylight saving is coming to an end so the clocks change and we get an extra hours sleep! Best as you can sleep the night before a race anyway. Everything is […]
Ramblings from the Early Hours
I was up at 4:30am today. It was a lot dark, a lot wet and a little cold. It didn’t feel so bad the past two nights have seen me up at 5:00am and this time I managed a good nights sleep. I switched off the computer earlier, had a read and then went to […]
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