Blog Posts about training

So I've been thinking for a while that I'm being rather lazy and not getting out enough, but with 3 hours in the car on top of 8.5 hours in the office I'm fast running out of hours in the day once my 4 year old son is bathed and put to bed ...

To shamelessly plagiarise the title of The Triathlon Shop’s (unrelated) film (here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfhp42fe7aY , title also shamelessly plagarised), I am feeling a little lost of late. It’s been four weeks since half iro...

I must admit I've been really lucky with the weather for my first two triathlons this year. Most of my friends started their season at the end of March in freezing temperatures but the sun was shining, the birds were singing & the water s...

I planned to head out to Richmond Park for a bike/run brick session on Saturday. It struck me this is what most of my Saturdays look like this time of year... 8.30am Struggle to wake up. Only got myself to blame as I stayed up until 2.3...

A blog series written by John Gilbert about two of his more unusual marathons.... My name is John Gilbert. I am a long distance runner who competes regularly for Kent AC, mainly specialising in cross country and marathon running. In the sp...

Suddenly it's the middle of March. The Virgin London Marathon #VLM is 4 weeks away, the Outlaw Half (70.3) is 10 weeks and the BIG one - Challenge Roth is only 17! Not sure why I'm surprised to be honest. It's the same every year. You cho...

Ok, so i have just employed a coach to get me fighting fit in time for my next ironman race on 29th september 2013. I have had an achillies heel problem since september so I am a bit concerned about starting to run. Tomorrow starts wit...

Two and a half weeks later, and I’m nearly over the lurgy. Not entirely, but enough to be planning on riding tomorrow. I’ve been swimming for a week, and a very poor, inefficient swim this morning had one major upside in proving that my ...

I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who have to travel for their job. I am one of them, and for the next 2 weeks I am spending my time living in a hotel near Birmingham airport. This concerns me as I will be away from my physio...

I've been engaged in a Twitter conversation this week regarding the weight I give to Turbo training in my Ironman prep. It's actually a recurring theme, with most triathletes incredulous when I say that virtually ALL my Outlaw 2011 prep wa...

A brief, one-off, lifestyle choices rant if I may. Incited by the latest from insecure-neurotic-food-issues-huge-sense-of-personal-inadequacy-colleague-number-one. Fine. Plenty of people around with said issues, we’ve all got them in var...

It's time for the TriBlogs Summer Competition and we have some fantastic prizes to give away this month courtesy of blueseventy. To enter this free competition visit our new Facebook Competition page and see below for more details about t...

As I've entered two open water based triathlons this year, I was quite worried about my ability to swim constantly over 750m without having any pool sides to cling on to for a breather. My swimming isn't actually that bad anymore; I have ...

A very nice route to run around a lake in the heart of the Romanian capital ...

Pardon me for stating the obvious, but this is the first time I’ve done a proper taper, and it’s great! Having only raced short distances before, ‘taper’ has just meant threeish days off at the end of the week before a Sunday race. With...

I'm wondering of anyone else has experienced the same issues as I have on my recovery weeks. As I drop my training by half and reduce intensity I find lots of niggles and aches become apparent. This is putting me off taking a break however ...

This week is go, go, go! Fully recovered and SO pleased to be feeling good again. Have had two good swims out of three, which is amazing for me (I’ll save my long swim mental block for another time), and the stability and strengthening e...

The second critical area for any training is always going to be nutrition. As everyone probably knows carbohydrates are an endurance athletes friend and getting enough in is always paramount. However for the ectomorph Protein is as importa...

I started as a runner. I could swim (in the relaxing, floaty sense), but my first foray into the world of sport in the self-challenging, competitive sense was all about running for a year and a half. In the early days I ran 5 – 10k dist...

Today's Guest Blog is a real gem and is written by (currently) unbeaten ultrarunner and former elite triathlete Alice Hector. Alice still races tri to a high level, recently winning New Years' Day Triathlon in Edinburgh. She works at B2P S...