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Reading Time: 6 minutesOkay, let’s just see a quick show of hands… How many of you already own a heart rate monitor of some description? Okay, quite a few of you. Alright, keep your hands up if you know how to use your HRM? Hmmm, okay, a few hands went down. Quizzical looks on a lot of faces […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutesOkay, you can see the article below with tips on what to eat, but perhaps the toughest part is figuring out when to eat. It’s tough because it’s going to be more personal and there are fewer general rules for you to follow. You really need to listen to your body to get it right […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutesRight now, I have a lot of triathletes I am working with on their Annual Training Plans and laying out their training and racing goals for the year. Pretty much everyone has been asking me about what they should or shouldn’t eat and when they should or shouldn’t eat it. So, let’s see if I […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s coming up to the 4-week mark after my first iron-distance triathlon and I’ve had a lot of time to reflect on the recovery phase after a big race. 4 weeks feels like about the right amount of time to recover from a long-distance race and get back into training again at some point. I […]
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Reading Time: 7 minutesShort version: No official times or splits available yet, so this is what my stopwatch said Swim (probably not the full 3.8k/2.4 mi): 1 hour Transition 1: about 7 minutes Cycle (180k/112 mi): 6 hours 20 min Transition 2: about 12 minutes Run (26.2 miles): about 5 hours 5 minutes Total: 12 hours 44 min […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutesSwimming The sound of zipping up your wetsuit early in the morning. The small ripples you make in the water when you get in. The splashes other people make when they get in. They squeal and make high-pitched noises, but you have done this so many times before in much colder conditions, you just sink […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesAs a triathlete, you kind of have to get used to early mornings. Most races will start pretty early, and you’ll probably find you have to get up at ridiculously early times to get to the races on time (but, like, how do you get a decent night’s sleep when you have to get up at 2am […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesOkay, confession time! I don’t know much about fetishes, but I think I have developed a wetsuit fetish. One of the things I love about doing triathlons is wearing wetsuits. I love open-water swimming, anyway, with or without a wetsuit. I am a Pisces and maybe that has something to do with it. But, with […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn a moment of weakness, I put in a bid on eBay for a set of Zipp 440 carbon fiber tubular tires a few months ago. A new set of those wheels, the Zipp 404 tubulars, cost at least $1,500 for the pair (and that’s without skewers, cassette, tape and tires), and there was a pair […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutesSorry for the long silence. Been away for a while, getting stuck into my big challenge this year: training for my first ironman triathlon (the Forestman). For those of you who didn’t know (and if you already knew this, then please allow me to try and impress you once more with the sheer numbers), an […]
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Reading Time: 9 minutesOkay, it’s cold and dark and wet out there, if you’re living in the northern hemisphere and it’s what we call Winter time (not that bullshit they complain about in Florida when they have to put on a sweater or something). You don’t want to ride your bike, you don’t think it’s safe out there, […]
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Reading Time: 10 minutesAlright, for those of us in the northern hemisphere, or who are not doing much racing until May/June/July, etc., this is probably what you would call our Base period of training. Now is the time to focus on technique, endurance and conditioning work. In other words, going back to basics, polishing things up, learning from […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesLast weekend I participated in the inaugural “Druid Challenge” ultramarathon, along the Ridgeway, a beautiful, tough trail, just to the northwest of London. I did it because: (a) I wanted to get motivated to do some long-distance running as I train to tackle my first Ironman this year (b) I wanted do a small event […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the run-up to the London Triathlon, I had a miserable couple of weeks doing some really crappy work (teaching photography to a bunch of aggressive, violent teenagers) for which I was completely unprepared, getting stressed out, losing sleep, not eating enough, not training much, and generally giving my buddy, Crohn’s Disease, several good reasons to […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesBrick training is a concept that is popular in triathlon circles where you combine two different disciplines in one continuous training session. It is a good way of working different muscle groups (e.g. going from a swim straight onto the bike) or preparing yourself for some of the weird physiological sensations you might expect to […]