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.…
Finally, today marks the start of my 3-week taper. The 14/15 hours this week seems positively easy in comparison to what I should have been doing in the last 3 weeks. I am left with this quandary: 3.8km Swim – OK I’ve done more than that in very many club sessions. But never continuously. I’ve managed…
I’ve had a rather enjoyable weekend training. If you are in the UK you might know that the weather has been pretty awesome recently and that we now have a weekend with a public holiday. My first visit to the lake was yesterday and it was actually quite warm. Bizarrely so (physics). My first visit…
Before I start wittering on about gel, this is an interesting chart from QS EMFIT. It’s a 6 month daily trend of night-time and waking HRV. The green line is the waking HRV and the higher it is the better it is; the entire white line represents night recovery, sort of. It suggests that I’m…
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…
I always thought that pears had quite a nice shape. But when applied to training ‘maybe not’. My training is on the verge of going pear-shaped in the bad, metaphorical sense. The volume is increasing steadily by half an hour a week. There’s an all-prevalent sense of mild tiredness throughout my body but nothing particularly aches,…
BMC-ETIXX-sponsored athlete Emma Pallant won Challenge Gran Canaria (Middle Distance Triathlon) by 6 seconds and here she is sporting the Polar M200 and a nice Polar-sponsored T-shirt, below. The often politically-correct BBC fail again to give her (and women’s sport in general) equal billing with their limited coverage of the pro race. Instead they cover the Yorkshire-bloke…