Category: Running

  • Off To Dublin

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    Kim & I are on our way to Dublin. The kids are staying with my parents, so it’s going to be a weird weekend. This taper period has been very interesting. My legs have become very strong & swift, with some tightness of most of the tendons passing around my ankles. My heart rate was…

  • Taper

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    With 5 days to the marathon I’m well into my taper, and it’s a funny thing. It’s almost like I’m already into the rest & recovery part of the season. I’ve never tapered this long before (and for much of the time when I was racing, years ago, I never really tapered) and I’m out…

  • Fear

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    2 weeks to go until the Dublin marathon. At this late stage I’ve got a big pile of fears. I’ve worked hard for a year, I’ve put in huge efforts in training and I’m not planning to run marathons every year, so I’m putting all the preparation on one big race: the 2009 Adidas Dublin…

  • Tim Don – Advice for beginners

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    There are a bunch of new first years on the course getting into (and a few very much already into) triathlon. If you new guys & girls are looking for advice there’s nowhere better than to start than with words from the Don. Have a look at some of the other Oakley Armchair Sessions on…

  • Autumn

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    Training has been made much easier over the last month by the great September weather. After another dodgy summer Kim’s predictions of good weather when the kids returned to school proved correct, and we’ve had almost no rain for 4 weeks. It’s far easier to drag yourself out of the door to run when it’s…

  • Pembrokeshire Half-Marathon (Dale) – Race Report

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    I ran the Pembrokeshire half-marathon yesterday in Dale, organised by the Pembrokeshire Triathlon Club. I chose it as my last race before the marathon because of the distance, the hills and the location. I was guessing from the maps but when we got there it was as pretty as expected. Kim and I have climbed…

  • Shadow

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    Shadow jumped ahead again at the end of this evening’s run. The sun dropped low behind us & he sprang forward as I turned to look at the view. And he knew my legs were tired. Bastard. Posted with LifeCast

  • Run, boy, run!

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    Time for a training update? I’ve done half of a 115km running week, and this is my penultimate big week. I’ve an easy week next week (a mere 90km with no speed session and no long run) followed by a 120km finale that ends with yet another 32km (20 miler!) long run in which I’ll…

  • Human Race Dorney Middle Distance Aquathlon – race report

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    I’m training for the Dublin Marathon at the end of October, so I was looking for a race or 2 for interest and measure that would fit into my September schedule. I really didn’t fancy lining up at the Bristol half-marathon with thousands of others. Hunting around I found an interesting length of race: a…

  • Halfway?

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    Unusually I’ve not blogged in 11 days. Actually, that’s not entirely true – I’ve been photo blogging (moblogging?) to Flickr. I’ve had a bit of a break at the end of the summer & we’ve been taking the kids on lots of daytrips, sending photos to Flickr & comments to Twitter as we go. I…