It’s been a fairly busy 18 months of training and racing ending up in Ironman world champs in Kona, Hawaii. It’s left me tired and looking forward to a break, to doing something a bit different before jumping back into heavy training for next season. Ais was also looking for something a little bit different,
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Robs blog: Kona – Tuesday
We’ve spent the morning walking around Kailua slack jawed like complete Ironman groupie tourists. Everywhere you look is another official Ironman shop, merchandise stand or sponsor tent. Every second person looks like a triathlete, so far the island is every bit the Disneyland of Ironman triathlon that I expected it to be. There is hundreds
Robs blog Kona The Trip
The flight from LAX to Kona is probably the fittest flight I’ve ever taken (Although I believe the one out of Kona on the Monday after the race beats it hands down) A very rough head count of what I’m reckoning are triathletes while boarding gave me over 30. How did I identify them you
Robs Blog: Ironman Kona-10 days to go
I showed up for Tuesday’s run session early, it was to be my last hard run but from the start I knew something wasn’t right. I was supposed to do 6x 1 mile repeats but I was knackered straight away. Normally I’m on number 3, 4 or 5 before I start to feel them and
Robs Blog Ironman World Champs 2 weeks to go
Robs Blog Kona: 2 weeks to go There’s a funny mix of pressure and a lack of it. It’s the world championships so I should have huge pressure to do well but I don’t feel it as much as I did when I was trying to qualify. I suppose because once again I’m the newbie
Robs Blog: Aislings 24 Hour Race
It’s 1:37am on the 7th of July. I’m in the camper van making a large espresso while Ais runs, and runs, and runs. We’re at the energia 24hr ultra marathon in Bangor and Ais has been running for almost 7 hours. Except for toilet breaks she hasn’t stopped at all. Watching her run like this
Robs Blog Race The Ras Day 8
Today’s post is only a quick note I’ll write later about the full week, we finished in skerries after riding over 1260km in the last 8 days. Aisling led the group over the finish line as the first and only woman to ride the route of the Ras. A lot of the lads have said
Robs Blog Race The Ras Day 5
Day 5 done, over 160k and 6 categorised climbs. I felt better today than I have all week. I had hoped that I would improve as the week went on and it seems to be happening, we even had the wind behind us for long stretches and finished in sunshine in Blarney. The group rode
Robs Blog Race The Ras Day 4
Today was a stage that I was both nervous about and looking forward to, nervous because a couple of Ras vets had warned that day 4 was when it starts to get really tough, looking forward to it because I like climbing and today’s stage had 5 categorised climbs finishing with the cat 1 Healy
Robs Blog Race The Ras Day 3
Day 3 of race the Race the Ras done, todays stage was 180k with 3 climbs and took 6 hours. The legs felt great and the group rode really well together in much better weather conditions than yesterday. Ais had a great day again today riding comfortably in the group and doing some damage on