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Becoming a cyclist/triathlete. My journey through my accidental cycling life. Mountain Biking, Road Cycling, Duathlon and Triathlon

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Posted on Apr 30, 2018

A week of firsts….

This was a week of firsts for me. A week of goals hit and week of goals missed. My first ever swim over 3000 metres. My first cycle commute of the year. My first 100 mile bike ride of the year. My first run of 20 metres...... My first swim over 3000 metres - it …

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Posted on Apr 19, 2018Apr 22, 2018

Recovery week and the guilt.

Post Marathon is an interesting time. Take away the fact the foot has prevented me from running, the rest of my body has taken a hammering! The baby cows and quads have been nothing but tight all week. Even a spinning session on the bike and some roller sessions did nothing to ease the muscles. …

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Posted on Apr 16, 2018Apr 17, 2018

Brighton Marathon Weekend – My first ever Marathon.

26.2 miles, 42.1 kilometres, 138435 feet 0.468 inches, 4.5588889e-12 light years, what ever measurement you want to give it, a Marathon is a bloody long way!! Due to the foot injuries I have experienced, I went into the Brighton Weekend annoyed rather than nervous. I had decided a few weeks ago that I would make …

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Posted on Apr 8, 2018

Spring Cycling and Training is here….

April 8th and Spring has finally arrived here in the UK. Well temporarily at least. As I write this I have just come back from the Sunday Social with Brixworth Velo where we all got soaked. Drowned rats. Yep this is the great British weather for us. As the sun was out earlier in the …

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Posted on Apr 1, 2018

That inevitable battle with motivation….

I have had to have that talk with myself this week. The kind of one that goes along the lines of "You are 14 weeks away from Challenge Roth. Why are you not getting yourself up in the morning for training. Why are you finding excuses to not go to the pool. Do you really …

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Posted on Mar 27, 2018Mar 29, 2018

This is what cycling is all about for me

This week was all about building up to the big training ride for the BXV Fred Whitton quartet. As the reported injury has prevented me from running, I pretty much kept the week to swimming and turbo training (thanks once again to the good old British Spring time weather). By Saturday the trusty steed was …

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Posted on Mar 22, 2018

Injuries – do they have to be part of this ritual!

It's fair to say I am enjoying - that's the wrong word to use - a bad patch of injuries. A few of which I can pin point as to why they are happening, with others just being bad luck!! Don't increase the training load by more than 10%. This is the general rule that …

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Posted on Mar 18, 2018Mar 18, 2018

Swimming! I feel more like I am drowning!!

I didn't learn to swim till I was 6 maybe 7 years old - I would love to be more accurate but my brain is like a small HDD: I have to keep deleting things to find space for new memories 🙂 Am I the only one?? Anyway back to the swimming....So even after learning …

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Posted on Mar 11, 2018Mar 28, 2018

MK Festival of Running – COMPLETED…

Today was the day I got to test my legs out on what should be the longest run I have ever done. It was the Milton Keynes Festival of running day (http://www.mkrun.co.uk). Nathan had convinced me a few months ago to enter the 20 mile run. Apparently this is great training for the long course …

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Posted on Mar 4, 2018

Triathlon – Swim, Cycle, Run… What have I done!!

The summer of 2017. I woke up early to make sure that I could log on to the Challenge Roth registration page. Nathan and I had our fingers on the mouse ready and as soon as the booking system was open we were signed up for race day on July 1st 2018. Just as well, …

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