I didn’t make much of a secret of my lack enthusiasm for this race. ‘Lack of enthusiasm’ is rather an understatement! I’d been so unkeen and grumpy in the build up to it, particularly in the last week as the looming race meant that plans for long chatty rides weren’t made, I’d had to put […]
Category: Race Report
Reading Half Marathon – headwinds, hills and head game
Another morning waking up before the alarm, I think this a combination of pre-race nerves and light mornings (I’d never realised quite how much light my curtains let in when I lived at home!) We got up and dressed, easy on race morning with a set outfit, and hurried downstairs for a fail-safe cinnamon and […]
Run your own race and relax :)
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 […]
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 […]