by Neil | Dec 30, 2012 | Blog
Goodbye week 3! Another week down and as my training is 30 weeks long i’m going to employ some complex maths and say I’ve done 10% of the weeks. The plan i’m following has three weeks of slightly increasing durations for runs and cycling then drops...
by Neil | Dec 28, 2012 | Blog, Other, What you need to know
You’ve read the books, you’ve signed up, you’re inspired. Excellent! Good work, it’ll change you blah blah. You know your heart rate (max), you’ve become friends with Z2 (let’s not talk about Z3). What does training for an ironman...
by Neil | Dec 23, 2012 | Blog
Week 2. Done. So far, so good. My total hours have increased slightly and I still feel good. I actually don’t feel as burnt out as I normally do with marathon training at this point. I think there’s something about mixing up the training with different...
by Neil | Dec 16, 2012 | Blog
The first week is done! I have a swim session later today, which will be my third of the week and is technically one more than the plan says, so i’m calling it done now. It feels pretty good – I find it so much easier to training for something – to...
by Neil | Nov 30, 2012 | Blog
After only a little over two months of waiting the big day has finally arrived. My new bike has landed in the flat. Its been a bit of an anxious wait because: I don’t know what i’m doing when it comes to bikes I’d never seen it I didn’t know if...
by Neil | Nov 30, 2012 | Blog
I’m poorly (I might write a post about that) so what better way to spend you evening than mucking around with graphs? Below is a stacked chart, representing the bike and run minutes I’ll be doing over the 30 weeks – I haven’t got a time for the...
