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Back to work and routine
After 18 days out of the office (including weekends) it's back to work today. Whilst I am dreading a return to my workload, I have to say that a little bit of me relishes the return to routine. Over...
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Weekend catch up
Various things to catch up on on this rainy Sunday afternoon!First solo bike rideYesterday was a swimming day and I planned to fit in a swim whilst I took a family member to hospital. The NHS...
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Bit frustrated
So, Mr W reported a niggling throat on Friday, woke up with a full blown cold on Saturday, struggled through a long day playing with a band, and then spent all of Sunday in bed. At this stage,...
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Unexpected result
I knew if I was even only 80% better from my cold today, I would be racing at Dorney Lake this afternoon. I think I woke up about 87% better, although with nerves, it's always difficult to tell. The...
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Catching up and first group bike ride
I had a pretty reasonable week of training last week despite it being the busiest week of the year at work. Monday-Friday went well with swims before work, and I fitted in an extra cycle ride (on...
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More group riding
Another exhausting week but Sunday dawned as a beautiful day, and having seen an email about another "beginners'" ride with the tri club, I couldn't possibly not go out. In retrospect, I should...
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Building blocks
Before I write about my plans for the "off-season", I thought I'd write down the building blocks which I'm putting in place which I hope will take me to the successful completion of my 70.3 in Austria...
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Plans for the off season
So my off season began a little earlier than expected as for various reasons Tuna Friend Fiona and I decided to duck out of our last race of the season on the 14th October. Anyway, it is now the off...
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Group ride #3
I have to say it took quite a lot of courage to go out for the group ride today, after last week. I've not had the best of weeks with very low mood, culminating in spending the afternoon in bed...
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Training for 70.3 - it's official, I've got the t-shirt
I wouldn't say I've been there, done it, got the t-shirt, particularly not on the back of this rubbishy week training (and other-) wise.But I did get home to a package from Austria! When I opened it a...
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Catching up
It's been a little while since I last posted. I didn't feel like I wanted to write about last weekend's bike ride as it was a tough one. Mr Tuna and I went out with the aim of conquering 56 miles...
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More catching up
In some ways I'd prefer to forget about most of the last 10 days from a Tuna To Tri perspective. Last weekend, I just couldn't get out of bed and for only the third weekend this year, I went without...
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Tridynamic Winter Workshop with Swim for Tri
On Saturday, I went over to Hampton Outdoor Pool in West London for a workshop run by Tridynamic with Dan Bullock from Swim For Tri. I went to Tenerife in February for a week's swim camp earlier this...
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I ran home!
The title says it all really! I ran home. Well, not quite home. I met up with Mr Tuna about half a mile from my workplace; he was in town for a blood test follow up and thus was conveniently able to...
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A good week's work!
This week has been a departure from the previous weeks where I have struggled to complete the sessions that I wanted to. I've done all of the sessions that I wanted to and completed a total of over 9...
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Cycle speedo
So, my new toy for my bike is cheap little speedometer. We picked it up from Halfords yesterday, and Mr Tuna set it up on the bike for our trip out today.[As an aside, I was supposed to be getting a...
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Last week
It's going to be a two-post day today as I meant to post yesterday, but forgot. Here's the first one - a catch up on the last week.So last week was a bit of an odd one, training-wise. I had Monday...
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10k PB
Today was my first running event of the year (well, pure running event as opposed to triathlon), and goodness me, how far I have come since I took up Couch 2 5k 14 months ago. I did the Eynsham 10k in...
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Week ahead/WIDDIU
Today, I am unsurprisingly, a little bit uncomfortable after yesterday's run. It turned out that my chip time was 54:13, which is closer to 54 minutes than 55, so a really good effort (even if I only...
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Musings on planning ahead
After my assertion at the beginning of the week that I needed to plan at least the next 12 weeks of training, I sat down last night to try to do it. How hard it is to plan that far in advance. The...
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