Category Archives: Training
Scattered Times
It’s been a relatively strange few weeks in the land of the boppers. My head feels like it might explode with everything I’ve had to do and try to fit in training too. Well, maybe the training didn’t fit in that perfectly. It got scattered between travelling and generally I’m starting to feel a little [...]
1. Absolute Swimming
This morning I had to meet someone at the Absolute Tri Club swim session to exchange a few previously borrowed goods. I figured that it was as good an excuse as I needed to join in the swimming. Swimming with the club is always quite a bit of fun – you get the social aspect [...]
1. Bike 20.88 miles
Today Peg-leg went along with me and we took a nice little ride around the county – him on my road bike, me on my tri-bike. It has been insanely hot this side of the earth for the past few days and we figured we might as well enjoy the sunshine while we had it. [...]
Swimming in Coffee
It is always a good start to a week when, within the first hour at work, you cover yourself, your keyboard, your mouse, your books, everything else on the desk and maybe even a little on the floor, with a hot, steaming mug of coffee. It required me to get myself home, take a shower [...]
Working hard, hardly Working
This week is testing. Tonight I’m doing my swim test and tomorrow my run test and on the weekend, the bike is winking at me, because it knows what is coming. When I look at test week schedules, my mind always convinces me that they are really recovery weeks, because I’m doing so much less [...]
And the Rain Came Down
Yesterday afternoon I was due to get myself to the pool and get a swim in. I packed my clothes early in the morning to ensure that I could take it with me to work and I could get to the pool straight after work. As luck would have it, I felt a bit more [...]
Cycling on a Green Martini
Cannondale Slice 105 Yesterday afternoon, after struggling to find time and place and everything in-between to get some riding done on the new bike, I finally gave up, set it up on the turbo and tried doing an aero ride for 1 hour while having Alice in Wonderland playing on the television. It was raining [...]
Another 3 easy ones
Another 3 easy miles by foot… Tomorrow the bike ride comes!
Comrades Marathon… 2011??
This past weekend the Comrades marathon took place in South Africa – this year it was a down run, which is allegedly the more gruelling between the up and down run and tend to work quite hard on your knees and legs (I’m not sure I’d be able to tell the difference after running 89km!!). [...]
Swim… And walk
Nice swim today – just wish it could’ve been outside! 3000m in all