All of the UK’s runners added together in 2016 climbed 1 billion metres. That’s a very big hill. The rest of the world managed an additional 5 billion. C’mon Switzerland, do your worst. You need more people. When is the most STRAVAest Runningest day? 11th September of course. Anywhere in the world, on that day EVERYONE…
It’s still sinking in that I am supposedly doing a full Ironman in 2017. Of course that means at least vaguely trying to run something like a Marathon at some point. Luckily I did a few half marathons this year and half irons. So hopefully I’m there or thereabouts already on the fitness front if…
Are you an Ironman or an Iron-distancer? That was the thought which faced me a couple of weeks back. I only intend to do an Ironman once and so, at the end of it, I wanted to be able to answer the question “Have you done an Ironman?” with a simple “Yes” or “No”. Most…
This time 3 Polars and a Suunto SPARTAN ULTRA braved my ‘standardised’ GPS test route. It was a chance for the V800 to redeem itself from a poor first showing because of needing to be worn on the underside of the arm. Also, of course, the SPARTAN ULTRA needs a first proper outing to test it’s GPS…
I did some more GPS tests with the Spartan Sport. This time more challenging. Once again it did quite well. Sorry! I can only say what I find, maybe I have a good one? Maybe the pre-workout sync and dummy run make a difference? – which I have noted before. NOTE: This time I’ve put the workout…
This is the course that I intend to use as a standard course for GPS tests. I will put the full FIT/TCX/HRM files online for those who wish to do any further analysis and/or to verify/dispute results. I am happy to change any of my inferences if you interpret the files differently. There is subjectivity, …
The Half-Iron Distance GAUNTLET is a significant challenge. 70.3 and full distance triathlons are not for the faint hearted. The GAUNTLET at HEVER also combines the difficulty of the distance with one of the harder half-Iron bike courses in the UK. The race organisation is very good. Lots of helpful people/volunteers/marshals are at every turn.…