It’s been a bit of a roller coaster of a week with such a lot going on that I haven’t managed to fit at run in since the weekend when I did a pretty slow and relaxed 10 miles on Saturday, followed by a strong 4 mile XC race on Sunday. I also had three […]
Author: Harriet
VO2 Max & Lactate Threshold Tests
On Friday our head coach, Nathan, posted on the club facebook page to say that Oxford Brookes were looking for volunteers for VO2 max and lactate threshold testing. Never one to miss an opportunity, I signed myself up for a slot on Saturday morning. I thought that not only would it be quite interesting to see […]
Oxford Half – round 2
Disappointingly, I haven’t got a single photo of myself in action at Oxford Half which is a bit of a shame as I was racing in my new and rather smart OxfordTri vest, alongside my new and rather lovely OxfordTri friends and somehow succeeded in getting a new PB! Dan was out on the course […]
Cotwold Classic Middle Distance Triathlon
Pre-Race Prep …was this time rather lacking! We signed up for this race in a spate of optimistic race booking earlier in the year, believing that after Staffordshire we would somehow be super athletes and be top of our game by the time the distant end of August rolled by. As it turned out, we’ve […]
Time to taper
In a house of triathletes a bank holiday weekend can only mean one thing – more time to train and going back to work on the Tuesday after the long weekend somehow feels a lot harder than a normal Monday. This weekend was our last big weekend of training before Staffordshire and I have to […]
Another Devonian sting in the tail – Roadford Lakes Triathlon
I don’t seem to get on very well with events in Devon. I think this is partly because Dan always massively undersells the hills and partly because I am not very good at those ongoing huge hills that Devon specialises in! On reflection, this weekend’s triathlon didn’t go badly, but the run left me feeling […]
My first BaRTT – lessons learnt
Earlier this week I did my first BaRTT (Bike and Run Time Trial) with OxfordTri. This consisted of 1 lap of a mile long run course, 3 laps of a 4ish mile bike, then 3 more laps of the run. It didn’t all go quite as planned but was a great learning experience and the […]
Can I run a half marathon after a 56 mile bike ride?
With race day just over a month away, that was the big question we set out to answer today. We’ve been asking each other the ‘Do you think you could run a half marathon now’ question every time we’ve got to 56 miles on the bike recently as the race looms over closer, and there’s […]