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…
Apart from sounding very silly, FARTLEK just doesn’t sit right in my mind. I have this vision of Norwegians running at a certain speed to the nearest lamp post and then at another speed up a hill and then at some other UNpre-defined speed over the next but one pedestrian crossing. That’s not me. Maybe…
The music lovers and more senior athletes amongst you will recognise the oblique reference in the title to Bat out of Hell. If neither the title nor that reference mean anything to you then, don’t worry, you’re almost certainly faster/younger than me 😉 After the running injury debacle a couple of months ago, things in…
It seems that neither my body nor Garmin are infallible. No surprise there, really. My Ironman training has brought new and yet more wonderful ways of me finding how to injure myself. I’m relatively cautious when it comes to placing myself in physical danger these days … except when it comes to adding yet another…
In previous posts I have scoffed a little about ‘Zone 2 training’ which, by now, I have become quite accustomed to. I sort-of noticed the increasing volume as the weeks went by but that was all fine as I was secretly enjoying running/cycling a long way and exploring new bits of my neighbouring areas that…
Polar’s new chest-strap heart rate monitor (HRM) is the H10. I’m going to assume, as I would do with a Garmin or Suunto chest strap HRM, that it’s accurate. Some of Polar’s marketing literature states increased accuracy over the previous H7 model. The H7 has historically been used by Sports Labs as a HRM-of-choice due…
In case you need 6 tips, here are the first 5 for running a marathon. Sonia, based at Loughborough, did 2:32.
