Half ironman
A new year, a new chapter
It feels like time to dust down the blog again. It will give me a chance to do some good and it will give you the chance to smile while I break my body and suffer a little more discomfort. Like me, the blog has been resting since last year and as I resuscitated it [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Half Iron Shakey
Sometimes we have people that come into our life for a reason. Sometimes they are special, really, really special. Three weeks after completing our Half Ironman Shakey has eventually managed to type a race report using both of her thumbs and her nose to operate the space bar. It is understandable that she took so long [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Over the hump…..
With only three weeks to go now and with the hardest training weeks behind me I feel like I have metaphorically gone “over the hump”. There is still a lot to be done in the coming weeks to keep everything ticking over and to try to stay something like an ideal race weight (to be honest [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Big Weekend
Get yourself a coffee, find a comfy seat and put your feet up because this is a big one. A month before Ironman you need to do the Big Weekend – a half distance training event. About a year ago, after I did my first Half Ironman, Shakey decided that she wanted a piece of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Summer at last!
As forecast, the weekend has left me puggled. Work ended up being even busier than I thought – I took a rest day on Friday (from training) and worked through to just after 2am; I was up at 630am and out for a 7 hour ride; back at work from 3pm through to 2am, home for a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mental strength……..and just being mental
Tonight on my way home from an open water swim at Threipmuir I saw an eightysomething arthritic, fella standing hunched over his walking stick and thought to myself “I wish I felt as fit and healthy as that lucky beggar”. I am at the stage in Ironman training where everything hurts all the time. I wake hurting, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )It’s been far too long.
I am pretty sure when I made my last post that I said I would be updating the blog more regularly. Sheer naivety on my part! It turns out that combining being a dad, training like a demented monkey and my budding career as a serious sports writer stretches even my multi-skilling to the max. I literally [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )A bumper double edition
Oops. Not sure what has happened to my weekly update. Anyway, here is a bumper fortnight’s update – hopefully next week I’ll get back on to a weekly blogging cycle and then we’ll be all tickety-boo. First of all, lets get Geek Spot and March out of the way. As a headline March has been a great [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Lost in Grangemouth
This may be a short update since I am only updating a wee bit of a week. Building work has not progressed but we have official confirmation that the building warrant has been approved so work will start a week tomorrow. So, there will be no photos of the work, however, there remains a high risk [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New shoes and the launch of “Geek Spot”
So, I said last time out that this week would be a recovery week. It sounded like a week’s holiday and I did have an ice-cream today but I have still done 8.5hours of training and I still find myself traumatised by the ante-natal classes that now seem to book-end my every week. First of all I have [...]
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