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: Training
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]