Becoming a cyclist/triathlete. My journey through my accidental cycling life. Mountain Biking, Road Cycling, Duathlon and Triathlon
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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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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 …
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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Brixworth Velo.... Where have you been all my cycling life?.... Becoming this accidental cyclist also required one more commitment from me. And that was to join a cycling club. T had been suggesting for a while that I should join a club so I can find and ride with like-minded individuals. However, and this is …
Why the Accidental Cyclist? Well you see I call myself an accidental cyclist because at no particular point did I sit myself down and decide that this is what I wanted to do or achieve. Prior to becoming this accidental cyclist my hobbies were fairly limited. They normally included handing my hard earned money over …
After riding my Cube on more and more technical trails I soon decided - and was heavily influenced by marketing marketing marketing - that I needed a full Suspension bike. I had been riding the Cube for 18-24 months and found that after trips to Nant Y Arian, Cannock Chase and Woburn Sands amongst others …
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