Category: Running

  • March!

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    Well, its almost March. The sun is out again today, last weekend was gorgeous for training by the sea, and the first race of the early or pre-triathlon season is coming up on Sunday. It’s starting to feel like spring already! We’ve had a fairly mild winter out by the Gower but I’ll still be…

  • Build block fatigue

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    I’m in the third week of my first build block for 2012 & the fatigue is hitting me nicely. I’m ready & recovered for each hard session but afterwards I’m sleepy & knackered. Dropping the volume & increasing the intensity is tiring me out. Zzzzz. Next week will be an easy week, and I’ve already…

  • Base training done, speedy stuff next

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    That’s 98 days of training done in preparation for the 2012 triathlon season, and so far so good. I’ve been testing again this week, and results were a bit weird on the running track (maybe too much coffee…) but the final 200m was the fastest I’ve ever run in that test, my 1000m swim time…

  • Finishing my (winter?) base training

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    This week I’m coming to the end of my base block of training. For nearly 3 months I’ve been building my training load by increasing volume and workout intensity bit by bit, with an easier week every 4 weeks to allow myself to recover. Most of that work has been aerobic, but more recently some…

  • Sunwise Waterloo

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    I went out on the bike the other day in perfect testing conditions for the Sunwise Waterloo glasses. It had been chucking it down all day, the roads were wet but the sun came out. It was super bright and low, into my face on the way out (sometimes in Wales we don’t see the…

  • I got there in the end

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    Don’t we always? Keep pushing forward bit by bit and you’ll get there. That’s what I keep telling myself every time I play golf anyway. But I’m talking about running. I tweaked my left medial gastrocnemius muscle (calf to some of you) at the end of the 2010 season charging up a steep, rocky hill…

  • Preppie

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    I’m into a second week of preparation work before training begins in earnest next week. All this means is that I’m “training” again after a period of 6 weeks of mucking about and doing what I felt like. What I felt like turned out to be almost no swimming, bugger all cycling other than commuting…

  • Tendinopathy

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    I think my right Achilles (calcaneal) tendon has been sore pretty much since I started running again a few years ago. Well, probably after a while of building up my mileage anyway. It’s nothing too nasty, and often only presents as a scratchy sensation a few cm above the tendon’s insertion into the calcaneal bone,…

  • A Partnership with Sunwise

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    I used to run to and from work alongside the river Taff when I was living in Cardiff. When I switched to cycling my optician noticed changes to my eyes and recommended that I start wearing glasses to protect them from dust, insects and drying. Sure, I used to wear glasses all the time when…

  • Swansea Bay 10k

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    Last weekend I ran the Swansea Bay 10k for the first time. I’ve lived here for, er, 6 years or so, and watched my brother run it but I’ve never entered myself. After Sunday’s run I reckon it’s cracking to be able to run with 4000 other people by the sea, on a sunny day,…