The Great South Run and Beyond
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The Great South Run and Beyond
I have been running for a number of years now and this will be the third year in the Great South Run. I am hoping to start to increase the speed of my running as I get fitter and slimmer. My main aim with running is to enjoy it, day in day out and still be enjoying it in another 25 years time.
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Life is still proving to be quite challenging, as I am sure it is for all of us. I still have limited time but am now able to get away for a bit longer so I have been starting to up my runs from 5k to a 10k last weekend and also a lovely cycle on Sund...
Well it has been a strange few weeks, I have had a close family member diagnosis with cancer, so plans had to change. I completed the Leeds Virtual Duathlon, which I had hoped to do the run and bike all in one go, but as I was only able to get half hour...
My life is slowly getting back to a state of normality. I already work from home, so no change there. The kids are at home but older enough to keep themselves busy, most of the day. I have been running with the dog and my son on his bike most days. A c...
I have not writen anything for a while but I have still been out running with the dog and the kids each day in the woods or maybe a short bike ride and even an odd turbo session. I have had a some lovely rides on the bike, with the roads being so quiet ...
How is everyone getting on. All my events planned for this year are now cancelled, but I seem to be pretty philosophical about it, not sure why.
I am very lucky as I work from home already and I also live across the road for a country park, so my days ...
Last week was a busy week. I am enjoying trying to balance training but I do have a feeling that I do not really now what I am doing.
Last week was made up of a 5k run on Monday with the club. A 10k run in the woods on Wednesday with the dog. A swim se...
As the forecast for Saturday was so bad I set the alarm for 5.30am and headed off on my run just before 6 o’clock. I wrapped up ready for wind and rain and in fact the bad weather held off until after lunch. The plan was to do more than 13 miles and p...
I had a very good weekend. I had decided that if I can run 13 miles pretty easily at a slow pace then I will enter a marathon in May , well I did and I have. North Dorest Villages here I come. I want to do a marathon in May and then Middle Distance Tr...
Following my cough and cold I am now back to normal. Last weekend I did two lots of indoor climbing so that helped push my grade up. I have done one session of swim training , out my bike twice this week plus running club on Monday. Tonight we are back ...
Not much to report here except a cough, a cold and not much else.I did try a 2 mile run on Monday which was OK but slow. I am also going to give swimminga try tonight, as after a week and a half off all exercise I need to do something.
Bring on the sum...
Happy New Year to everyone.So it is a New Year and I think a moment to look back over the past year. I started 2019 with two 10k road races getting pretty to close to my PB time, then I started training for a Middle Distance Tri, by doing a long 1.9K sw...
Well we have been up to something new over the last couple of weeks. Evening swimming in a lake and yes it is cold, 5 degrees last night. When I saw swim, I mean more like a 10 minute dip, but on a moonlit frosty night it was magical. Apart from that no...
I have no real targets at the moment, just running, swimming and cycling as and when I feel. This week had been a bit quieter due to family stuff, but tomorrow I have a small adventure planned. I am going to run a section of the South Downs Way I have n...
The 10 k race I did the other weekend was great fun. It was a small run organised by a local club, around country lanes, starting and finishing t the scout hut.
I enjoyed every minute of it, it was hilly, windy it rained, but it was lovely to be out i...
I have still been taking it pretty easy, with just a coule of short runs this week, a short cycle and a swim session. Climbing tonight and then a swim session in the morning and a 10K race on Sunday. I have not been running much so the race is purely fo...
I have not really been up to much for a couple of weeks . At the start of September I did a Novice Triathlon to keep a friend company and it was a lovely weekend away. Then the following Saturday I did a Sportive with a small group of friends, again en...
It has taken me a while to get round to writing about my Middle Distance Triathlon, mainly because I could not really believe I had completed it. It is one of those situation where even though you have done something you still feel like you’re not the s...
So Sunday is the day I have been training for since forever, the longest triathlon I have ever done. OK, not an Iron man but half way there. All was going OK and then last Thursday I twisted my ankle when out running in the woods. It was not too bad, ...
I have not written anything for ages, but that is not because I have not been training, in fact quite the opposite. I have been running, swimming and cycling a lot.
I completed a sprint distance tri a couple of weeks ago and it went really well, the ...
Well I have been busy, trying to train in running, cycling and swimming has proved very time consuming, but good fun.
Fitting everything in is tricky, but swimming I am now feeling pretty confident with having completed a 1.94k lake swim event. It went...
It has been really busy few weeks, I am still working on my swimming, running and cycling. This weekend I bought myself a proper pair of Triathlon cycling shoes, I have been using MTB shoes all winter. The new shoes are taking a bit of getting used to. ...
I have had a bit of a nice surprise with my triathlon 16 week training plan. I had not looked ahead in the plan too far as did not want to scare myself, so have been working on one week at a time. I thought it had an 8 week base phase then 16 week build...
After a brilliant weekend camping and climbing in Dartmoor, this week’s training is really not happening. With the kids off school and me working I feel that the time I have free it is more important to spend it with them. I just need to decide on wh...
I have been swimming, cycling and running and now I have a bit if a sore lower back. Exercising does not seem to be making it any worse. I am experimenting with my bike set up, a bit, to see if that may be the problem. So far this week I have run 10 m...
