I don’t run hills. I very very rarely run off-road (I ran on the beach once this year and that’s about it). So why not be part of a team of four running 10 miles each mostly off-road between Worthing and Brighton up to and along the South Downs Way? No was my answer. A few weeks later I heard you got a decent burger and chips at the finish. Sign me up! There were 30 mile or 40 mile…
Beach running… my favourite. The last time I wrote about beach running here was in 2016 when I took part in a race in Littlehampton. I wrote at the time… Straight after the finish I saw Ben (the race director of the new Felpham Five event) and immediately offered myself as a volunteer for his race – anything not to have to run!! In 2016 I volunteered for the race. I don’t think it took place in 2017 and then….…
Three days after the race we’re sat on the plane flying home. Right then, lets write a blog. This is what came to mind. I needed to write a bit more than that, so here goes…starting with Friday (the day before the race). My pre-race blog can be found here. After taking the bike and transition bags (bike shoes in one, run shoes in another) down to the ‘race village’ on Friday afternoon it was back to the apartment to…
Right then, this blog is overdue a little update I’d say. I did sneak in a post about getting to my 500th parkrun a couple of weeks ago but other than that all has been suspiciously quiet – mainly as I think I’ve retired from this long distance nonsense. After Kona in October 2015 I thought I’d have a year or two off. I did. It was lovely. There’s far too many distractions around the house, with the local sailing…
Apparently I’m about to do my 500th parkrun this weekend. So how did I get to this… I did a bit of running in 2002 (I took part in a Nike RunLondon 10k in Richmond Park) and that was it. Another 10k a year later at Blenheim Castle with friends and after that I took part in the Bognor 10k race (near my parents hometown) in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Each year I’d run for a few weeks prior to…
Well… this is an easy blog to write. I didnt’ take part! I withdrew from the race a couple of weeks ago. I started training ‘proper’ just after Christmas and started building up my weekly long runs (12 miles, 13 miles, 15.75, 15, 16, 17) and then on 9th February on a short run in advance of an 18 miler planned for the following day I stumbled badly on a large pebble (or similar) on the promenade close to home…
So, I’ve managed a year of my planned (at least for two years) retirement from Ironman racing. I suspect right now it’ll be longer than two years but that’s not a problem. I’ll come back and race long when I want to. I just don’t think I want to right now. Here’s a quick summary from last year: Swim: about 4.3km! Less than two hours of swimming in the entire year! Bike: 946 miles Run: 749 miles I had originally…
2016 has been a quiet year in terms of races – especially multisport ones. I did a duathlon earlier in the year and now it was time for a triathlon – this was my only triathlon planned for the year and I found one based less than half a mile from our front door. Absolutely perfect. The Bognor Regis Sea Swim Triathlon consists of a 750m sea swim, a bike ride of just 12 miles and a 5k run. My…
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