Category: Swimming
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Review
I had a crap race on Saturday for a number of reasons, which I’ll summon the strength to write about later this week. If you’ve been reading my blog you’ll recall that I’ve improved again this year, and recently made some tweaks to sort out some issues. I’ve made some training mistakes this season, but…
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TriExercise Pembrokeshire Coast Triathlon 2013
Between the European Triathlon Championships and the British Champs this year there’s a tricky 4 weeks of working out how to recover, kick the fitness on, and try to “peak” again. There’s not much you can do or expect from 4 weeks, and as you dropped most of your training load & fatigue for the…
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European Triathlon Champs 2013
A couple of weeks ago I raced as an age grouper in the Euro champs in Alanya, Turkey. Since coming back I’ve been busy catching up after taking only a handful of days away from work. I’ve also been mulling over what happened, how I’m performing and what to change. The venue was pretty good.…
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Cosmeston Sprint Triathlon 2013
Nope, not racing this weekend! I took photos this morning at the club’s Cosmeston Sprint Triathlon. A beautiful location, an altered bike course, and a fair bit chillier this year. Have a look at the Flickr set. Well done all for completing this, especially the fella that almost gave up near shore. Big effort!
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Deva Triathlon 2013
Oh dear. They say you learn more from your bad races than from your good ones, so I’ll try to do that here. The Deva Triathlon up in Chester was a World Age Group Triathlon Championships qualifier, and as we have a home World Champs this year, and a home World Champs on the Olympic…
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TTG Gloucester Triathlon 2013
The first race is in the bag! It was good to get that out of the way, and great fun on a sunny day in Gloucestershire. The TTG Gloucester Tri is a sprint distance race starting athletes off in a 25m pool at 1 minute intervals, so it feels like a time trial. It was…
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Swansea Health Solutions supporting me in 2013
Swansea Health Solutions will be supporting me again in my triathlon season for 2013. If you follow this blog you’ll know that Gareth has kept me together physically for 4 or 5 years now, and one of the main reasons I can train the way I do is because of the way that he looks…
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How’s the training going?
It’s ticking along steadily, thanks for asking. I’ve just finished an early base block with some early season testing at the end of it. My cycling legs are coming back after a prolonged period of swimming and running, swimming is going well after paying some high volume attention to it when my shoulder recovered in…
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2012 training totals
I just realised, while out on a nice 3 hour ride around the Cotswolds, that in 2012 I’ve relied on a single source of nutrition for exercise. I’ve been sponsored by BBI Healthcare this year and their GlucoJuice and GlucoTabs ranges. They’re simple, dextrose based energy sources. One is a liquid and the other…
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Midwinter
The shortest day is done! Although the day after was worse – it was so dark and wet all day that it felt like the sun never came up. I’m glad I swapped my run and swim around and avoided the weather. It really was that bad. All the fields I passed on my bike…