Received a message from my coaches asking for a list of all the races I’m entering and priority of races so that they can factor my training periodisation in to ensure I’m at my best for my A events. I’d given some thought to some goals last year but hadn’t truly considered what my priorities […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been a while since I’ve posted, and it’s also been a while since I’ve done an FTP test. I’ve got a cycling sportive coming up in mid March so training is currently leaning towards cycling power and efficiency. If you don’t understand FTP and it’s importance in cycling, the easiest way and shortest way […]
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The very last refined sugar I ate was around 9.30pm on Sunday 31st Jan. I say are – it was actually a beer but mere semantics eh! So that makes it roughly 36hrs. I’ve read that it takes approx 10 days for you to get over the sugar cravings and break the addiction and then […]
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Basically every single event that I had in the calendar for 2020 got shelved. I didn’t take part in a single Triathlon and only managed a handful of virtual events. I’d trained hard all year despite my low VO2Max – I shifted some extra weight and got leaner and I was in a good place […]
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Thanks to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis I’ve been forced to cancel three overseas trips, the most recent of which would have been a 10 day family holiday to Majorca. This particular cancellation happened at the 11th hour with little warning and therefore I had to react quickly and find a suitable location in the UK […]
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So today marks the first time back at the iron paradise! My local gym actually opened a few days ago but I thought I’d give them a couple of days to get into the swing of things but headed in at 6.30am (my allotted time) this morning. I’m still currently following the 80/20 maintenance plan […]
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At the start of the year I built out an annual training plan. I’d worked out which events I was going to take part in and I modelled my training around those events to ensure I was suitably fit and rested for each one. Then COVID-19 happened…. Every single event that I had signed up […]
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Just over a week ago I got some good news…. The lake that I had been using for open water swimming for the last few months was going to open back up (albeit with some changes to compensate for COVID-19). I booked as soon as I could! I swim at Lenches lake which is around […]
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