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[Race report - Shock Absorber Women Only Triathlon] Pretty pleased with that!
My goodness me that was FUN! Thank you so much Jenny for persuading me to enter the Shock Absorber Women Only Triathlon this weekend. Having done almost no racing this year, I was getting more wound...
View ArticleVirgin Active London Triathlon: 1 week to go! @thelondontri @virginactiveuk
One week to go!And ohboy are we ready for a taper week :o) I'm gonna go crazy!This weekend Mr TOTKat and I went parkrun touring again for the first time since he did his knee in. He's been slowly...
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Chewing at the bars of my cage [@thelondontri @virginactiveuk]
The day before the weekend of The Virgin Active London Triathlon and I am right where I should be before a race - chewing through the bars of my cage to get out and race!Last couple of months training;...
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Race Report - Virgin Active London Triathlon 2013, Saturday surprise sprint...
What a weekend!I'd always intended to race the Virgin Active London Triathlon this year and had entered previously, but since then I won the Virgin Active competition to become the 12th member of Team...
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Race Report - Virgin Active London Triathlon 2013, Sunday (Olympic distance)
Having had a bit of fun on Saturday and a lovely meal with team and some of our sponsors in the evening, the alarm went off at 04:30 on Sunday morning. I wasn't due to race until 12:25, but Mr TOTKat...
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Event Report: Ride London 100 2013
It's been all go for the last few weekends and this weekend was no exception; more excitingly it was the inaugural Ride London 100 event and the longest ride for me since crashing my bike last year on...
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Hard week!
Being quite inexperienced at proper training, I haven't got a good grasp of what a hard week is. Last week was one of them, though I didn't really notice at the time.Still quite fatigued from...
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The last of the big weeks in 2013
Last week was, on paper, the last of the big training weeks this year. The message from my coach was "get your head down and get through it". So. I did. And, come Sunday's 3.5 hour bike ride I was...
View ArticleSlightly overwhelmed
(if that's possible)4 weekends; 4 races. Sprint, 70.3, Olympic,Sprint. And I really really care about the first two. Thing is, I'm going to have my ass handed to me at both. The field at Thames...
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I wish I knew (Race Report: Thames Turbo Sprint #4 2013)
Bank holiday Monday. Thames Turbo Sprint Tri day!Vicky Gill - Ladies Winner and setting a new course recordUsual 04:30 alarm; up, brekkie and off to park and register by 05:45. This race, I was in...
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Race Report: 70.3 Zell Am See 2013 - I have never raced so hard
Cutting the long and boring flights story short; we arrived and our bikes didn't. They weren't loaded onto the plane at Heathrow when we were and arrived at out hotel at 6pm on Saturday. Thankfully,...
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Race Report: Racing the Valencia F1 Circuit
Thanks to Virgin Active, a bunch of Team Freespeed went down to Valencia to race the Valencia triathlon at the weekend.A week after Ironman 70.3 Zell Am See, Mr TOTKat and I would have just about...
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Fat Burner - Part II (I'm a freak)
In November last year, I had a test done. It was a test to see where I was in terms of how I use fuel during exercise. The thinking was that I'd like to try to optimise to burn as much fat as...
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Going out with a bang, not a whimper
The last race I'm signed up for this year (at the moment) is an 80km Ultra Marathon. And it's a trail race, "The 2013 Rowbotham's Round Rotherham International Trail Event of 80 km, 50 miles. An...
View Article11 more nights and 8 more training sessions
There are 11 more nights and 8 more training sessions to go, 5 of which are runs of varying length and intensity (including my 49th parkrun!), before my first 80km Ultra marathon.My confidence and...
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Trying not to freak out
Very very trying...7 days to go and I've had such sore ankles since Tuesday's run that I did nothing again until Friday! I know I'm supposed to be winding down, but that means intensity and/or...
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Sneaky 15K race
Rotherham might well be cold, wet and muddy next weekend. So having a little leg stretch this weekend, on Clapham Common, in the rain, mud and cold was a perfect head-straightener in the final few...
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Two more nights to go
Two nights sleep left before this here first Ultra trail race of mine.I did have a taper plan for this week:-But as you can see from the bright red which indicates an incomplete or simple not done...
View ArticleRace report: Rowbotham's Round Rotherham in audio
Rowbotham's Round Rotherham: a 50 mile Ultra trail race in audio files. I recorded as I went along, but only when I wasn't with people. I did spend most of the race alone, so there are 45 audio...
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Race report: Rowbotham's Round Rotherham 2013 (80km trail Ultra)
[There's a 25 min audio montage of the race here which fills in more than the stuff I can remember 2 days later.]We got up at 5am - relatively late for a race day. The only food we had available for...
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