I’ve done Hever’s GAUNTLET Half-Iron distance triathlon a few times now. I seem to be losing the ‘5k’ in me somewhat. I actually enjoyed a quarter of a day of race fun throughout the beautiful Kent countryside and, also beautiful, Hever Castle grounds. I was even looking forward to the race despite running VERY little since IMUK because…
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…
Whilst “ticking the Ironman box” and “getting the tattoo on a private part” may have been my recent goal. All the time my secret hope was what would follow. I had/have super high hopes that with many, many (many) hours of aerobic training I finally have that aerobic base we all dream about. So after…
IRONMAN UK (BOLTON, 2017) Having gone though an ‘Age Group’ triathlon/duathlon phase in previous years it was always going to be interesting comparing that experience to the parallel ‘big event’ experience of a branded Ironman. The purpose of this post is just to briefly explain the event and then give a little insight into MY training, in…
I’ll take that weather. A little bit of everything more than I’d like (rain, temp wind) but fine and could have easily been a whole lot worse. Although knowing the West Coast it still may well be worse yet. I have my new deeper rimmed front wheel, a Mavic CXR 60, on the front and an…
This weekend just finished was nice and ‘easy’ with ‘only’ about 6.5 hours of training. Although the taper started last week the training influence curve is still positive for a few more days, so I reckon that there is still a little bit of beneficial training to be had. This weekend was a race-kit testing weekend…
Two posts in one title. You lucky people. My granny’s new rear cassette just arrived. 11-32T. I don’t think I’ve ever had such a massive ring on my TTs rear end. the one on my MTB is probably even smaller than this one. Actually it may well even be the exact same cassette…I didn’t check.…