Following a fantastic month of training in march with good swim and run volume and quality and a big increase in bike mileage it’s all gone a bit pear shaped in the last 2 weeks. My observation for the month is moving house and Ironman training don’t mix so well. In fact they don’t mix
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Robs Blog : Workout of the week
Most weeks have a stand out training session. It might be the first ride of the year in short sleeves & shorts or a trail run in the mountains that I really enjoy but more often it’s a session that I got a kick out of like a breakthrough swim or run. It’s also usually
Robs Blog: February Roundup
Hours/distance/workouts per sport Total 70:45 / (48) Swim 18:40 / 51700m / (16) Bike 34:20 / 896k / (15) Run 12:15 / 127.5k / (9) S&C 5:30 (8) Swim 18:40 / 51700m / (16) This is my biggest ever swim month and I’m really enjoying the progress that a concentrated block of training on a
Robs Blog – Loving Swimming
I never thought I would say it but I’ve been really enjoying swimming lately. I’m even starting to think of myself (dare I say it) as a swimmer… Not to be getting ahead of myself, I’m not quite at Michael Phelps level just yet but I can definitely feel improvements. This season swimming was on
Rob’s Blog: January ’13 Swim Focus
As a triathlete I think of myself as an ok bike-runner with a weak swim. I’m going to address that this year and while I’m not expecting to be swimming with the fastest guys I’m at least aiming on not giving them a 10-15 minute lead out of the water anymore. To fix this I’ve
Robs Blog: Dr Joe
For a number of months now I haven’t been feeling great. It started in the last couple of weeks before Ironman Uk back in July of this year. I wasn’t feeling right in the lead up to the race and couldn’t figure out what it was. I was way down on power on the bike
Robs blog: 2012 Season thoughts & conclusions.
My racing is more or less over for 2012. We ran the jingle bells 5k in the Phoenix park on Saturday and despite it being only a week since the 6 day stage race in Cambodia I was only 14 seconds off a pb, albeit on a very fast course. We might do another short
Rob’s Blog: Cambodia 6 Day Ultra Marathon Stage Race
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,
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