swimming

This is what I have been working for all season. Building up to a charity place in the world's biggest triathlon. After training for a short sprint tri last year then taking three months off with only some cycle commuting, I went back to the gym in ...

I've been a bit quiet lately. I haven't fallen off the treadmill but it has been a bit of a squeeze time wise hence the lack of time for writing. Before I knew it I was a week out from Lakeside and running about worrying about all sorts of things: ...

A second dunking for the wetsuit, and a real challenge - would I survive a whole mile in open water? My training session two weeks ago went well but different conditions and having had a cold the weekend before I was seriously doubting myself. I tri...

Well Easter was fun! Went visiting family and took my running shoes. Of course I didn't do as many workouts as I'd have liked but realistically I knew it would be the case. But I did get out and it was good to run somewhere else. The really good news...

After the flatness of the week before it was an absolute joy to feel good again training. Last week when I blogged I'd just done an interval hill training session in the sun and was feeling better for it. The week continued in this vein. Monday w...

Saturday's mini tri of last week went ok. The stuff I was expecting to play up - the calf for example - did not make a guest appearance but guess what, the stitch I got last year did. This is clearly something that is going to happen unless I change...

This week has not been too bad thus far, although I was feeling seriously tired by Wednesday...   Summoned up the courage to go back to sprinting. I think they are being easy on me but I'm going to let them. I admit though that this is currently m...

This week is week 1 of The Plan. And so far, it has NOT gone to plan. Yesterday was supposed to be a rest day (I'm doing Don Fink's 'Just Finish' iron fit training despite not doing an iron). But instead I went sprinting with the running club and ...

Work is crazy but I'm getting up early to train. Really good to be back in regular training but rain and long dark hours, plus living in London now is making what I call 'real cycling' a challenge, and I'll find any excuse I can not to run. I've b...

The next discipline under the spotlight of worry is the run. I am so embarrassed about my slow run. Recently though I’ve been talking to some guys at work who run and it turns out, they run at about the same pace as me. So, maybe I’m not that slow a...

Well, it's been a while, but it's been going well. I find I get anxious about one part, then get more comfortable with that, then I go on to something else. Will I ever run out of things to worry about? Generally I've been feeling very confident abo...

Thursday was swim training. At Horfied again - I swum to the music on at Aqua Fit, which was hilairious. It's hard though as there's a lot of people there who have little idea about lanes and how they work. So far at Horfield I've identified two typ...