Last week was the first of a new training cycle, the 2nd in the 20 week build to Ironman Lanzarote. I new at the beginning of the week that it was going to be a challenge as I was booked in for 2 full days of teaching at the weekend, which offered only the opportunity [...]
21 days completed and all going to plan… except the weight loss (but more of that later) It’s been a good 3 weeks. I’ve missed 2 sessions in 3 weeks and that was because a couple of business appointments got switched around at the last minute (lesson for future – do the sessions early in [...]
It’s been another good week. 11.5 hrs of total training (although the goal was 13 hrs). Stats for the week; S=3m45, B=5h15m, R=2h45,Wts=30mins, Total = 12h15 I missed running the Vo2 max intervals as I was still too sore after the long run on Wednesday. This was an experiement as up until now, I’ve been [...]
2010 ended on a high note as far as triathlon training was concerned. My last test of the year was the dreaded CP20 on the VeloTron. Basically this is an all out effort for 20 minutes. The result is known as Critical Power (hence CP20). The results could also be known as Functional Threshold Power. The [...]
Thanks to those who posted comments and sent other messages about the last posting. Some were even brave enough to have a crack at guessing what the numbers at the bottom of the last blog meant. Some were good guesses and some were miles off . The answers are below this post which is a [...]
After 2 years of doing long distance “adventure” triathlons (Norseman & Inferno) I’ve decided to go back to compete at Ironman Lanzarote for a 3rd time in 2011. There are a couple of reasons for this:-
