I’m feeling a little smug. For once I did a little bit better on my A race than I had hoped for, both in terms of time and position. It was a ‘lesser event’ with limited competition but a medal is a medal and it’s not my fault the really good guys didn’t turn up…
It’s that time of the year again. Race time. You’ve been having lots of ‘fun’ with STRYD over the winter and many of us are getting to the point where the taper for our A race is in sight. The Zone-based training we have been doing is relatively straightforward to grasp. But how does that…
Want to see someone run 10k in under 28 minutes? This could be it. The annual “Night of the 10k PBs’ There are lots of top-level European guys competing. It is a genuinely unusual and fun evening eg last year the racers ran through some sort of covered tunnel. anyway. Slightly quirky. But high quality…
Cabbage Patch 10 (2017) finished: Sunday 15 October 2017. Before you click please use the Virgin GIVING image link below to do some good. You’ll feel better about that than your result. Here are the 2017 results: (link to: Sports Systems) I had a satisfactory race. Not the PB I hoped for but I was…
Qualifiers for Duathlon & Triathlon. ETU & ITU. Sprint & Standard (& others). For races in 2018 and SOME in 2019
As Rotterdam’s ITU Final finishes the season for the Age Grouper triathletes, I await the tales of potential woe from the bike course. The pro course on Saturday, which I imagine was a similar route to the AG route, looked technically demanding in the wet as I watched it live on the BBC. Of course it’s great to…
This weekend, Run or Dye returns to Penshurst Place, bringing thousands of people to take part in the world’s most colourful 5k to the iconic venue. The stunning 14th century estate will host a storm of coloured dye inspired by the ancient Hindu festival of Holi. This year, the original 5k route is one of…
I would be interested to see EXACTLY what the Nike 2 hour marathon runners used to get tantalizingly close to the 2 hour marathon mark. For example they obviously used ‘special’ Nike shoes and Beet-It claim they used their beetroot product (likely). However, much of the gain from going below the world record was probably from…
With the London marathon taking place on Sunday, 23 April, runners can prepare for the mental demands of this notoriously challenging event by following the advice issued by the University of Kent’s ‘psyching teams’. Introduced to the UK by Dr Carla Meijen, Lecturer in Sport Psychology in Kent’s School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, ‘psyching…
Human Race Events acquires Xtra Mile Events OK it’s not in the same league as the relatively recent purchase of Ironman. However it’s of interest to many of us as we probably each do a couple of their events a year. Human Race Events have acquired XTRA Mile Events. Or Amaury Sport Organisation have acquired…
In case you need 6 tips, here are the first 5 for running a marathon. Sonia, based at Loughborough, did 2:32.
The image says it all really 14 May 2017: Half Marathon in Henley, 30% off. Enter (here) Some of F3’s other events, below. I’m doing the Windsor half I hope. Saturday18March 2017 Windsor & Eton Half Marathon – Dorney Lake Sunday19March 2017 Windsor 5km, 10km 15km, 20km Fun Run Saturday15April 2017 Windsor 5km, 10km,…
Closed! Once again there are two places up for grabs at the HEVER Castle Triathlon festival, this time for the September 2017 event. I’m saying it’s 2x free places for the Gauntlet up for grabs for ONE winner (ie £300++) . If you win and ask the event organiser very nicely they should let you…
The decision of which race to enter for my first Ironman was not straightforward. To a degree I want some bragging rights back at my club. So I don’t want a race that involves 5 vertical miles of bike climbing – ie one factor is that it is conducive to a ‘sensible’ finish time. I want…
Ha Ha. Geddit? Cheque list. This is going to be expensive! I appreciate that Americans spell cheque differently (check) which sort of loses half the audience. But I will persevere regardless of linguistics. Luckily I’ve been doing triathlons for a while and have also finished the half-distance. I write an endurance gadget sports blog. So I…
I’m not so sure if anyone is particularly interested in MY Ironman journey. There have been lots of other Ironman journeys from many other people that have had to overcome many more physical and emotional obstacles than I ever will. Some of those achievements have been awe-inspiring and others super-funny. My goal, therefore, is to valiantly…
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…
It took me a while to realise that 2XU was ‘two times you’ but I got there in the end. The XERT, as in ‘exert’, was more self-evident. XERT is part of BARON Biosystems who also make BIOSHIFT. Before we get cracking, you need a CIQ enabled Garmin cycling computer and a couple of months’ history…
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.…
