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23 November 2014

How do you hydrate?

Ever since I was small, my favourite drink has been water. I’ve never been particularly partial to juice/squash/cordial, and would almost always prefer to drink water. However, when it’s cold or I’m starting to get hungry, I can be persuaded to have a hot chocolate. I also quite like jasmine tea and don’t mind Earl Grey tea, but I never...

Nutrition/Product review Comments: 5

2015

These are the events that I took part in during complete in 2015. January 03/01/15 Southampton parkrun 27:52 10/01/15 Southampton parkrun 26:37 11/01/15 Marafun training run 18/01/15 Stubbington 10k (HRRL) 52:10 24/01/15 Southampton parkrun 25:49 25/01/15 Evans Cycles Ride It Newbury Sportive 112km February 01/02/15 Marafun training run 15/02/15 Marafun training run – too ill, so a 10km run with...

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31 August 2014

Fowey Harbour Swim 2014

Today, Stuart and I travelled to Fowey for the annual Fowey Harbour Swim. This is a non-competitive charity event that was raising money for the RNLI. We took part last year and really enjoyed it, so decided to enter again this year. Last year’s course was cross the harbour and was fairly short (advertised as 1200m, it was probably not...

Swimming Comments: 0

13 July 2014

My first Olympic Distance Triathlon

My first Olympic distance triathlon was the GU Energy Weymouth Bay Triathlon. As it was in Weymouth and started at a typically early time, Stu and I had to get up at 4:45am. We ate breakfast and then drove to Weymouth, where we parked the car and went to register. It was our first Bustinskin event and we were impressed...

Triathlon Comment: 1

18 April 2014

Good Fri Tri

Good Fri Tri was my first triathlon of the year and my second triathlon with a pool swim. I hated my last pool-based triathlon (Ferndown Try-a-tri), so I was hoping to lay that ghost to rest. An early start We got up at 5am, and I knew that I move to move quickly as I hadn’t packed all of my...

Cycling/Running/Swimming/Triathlon Comments: 7

5 April 2014

I’ve been to Hull and back…

I seem to be constantly playing catch up at the moment and don’t have enough time to blog. I joked with friends that Brighton will be the first marathon I’ve done without anyone to chat to on the way around and that perhaps I should use Siri with the WordPress app on my iPhone to ‘write’ my blogpost on the...

Nutrition/Running Comments: 4

30 March 2014

First long bike ride of the year

Here is today’s IDEAfit photo a day image for the topic ‘Fun’. My idea of fun today was a 65.5km (40 mile) bike ride with friends 🙂 Recently training has felt very difficult and I haven’t enjoyed it, so it was nice to go out for a ride instead of running! I’ve been just about managing to get on top...

Cycling Comments: 7

1 January 2014

2014 goal-setting

It’s the start of a new year, so it’s an apposite time to review my progress and do some goal-setting for 2014. I’m hoping that 2014 will be the year that I achieve some elusive PBs, with a 5k PB being at the top of my wish list. Here’s how I did in 2013: 5k: 25:14 (PB: 25:08) 5 mile:...

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2014

January Southampton parkrun (5k) 01/01/14 29:08 Southampton parkrun (5k) 18/01/14 29:16 Stubbington 10k 19/01/14 55:17 February Southampton parkrun (5k) 01/02/14 28:00 Lanhydrock parkrun (5k) 08/02/14 32:45 CC6 09/02/14 missed for family reasons Bramley 20 mile 16/02/14 3:30:06 Southampton parkrun (5k) 22/02 /14 31:16 Charlton Duathlon (Andover) 23/02/14 event cancelled March Southampton parkrun (5k) 01/03 /14 ...

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22 November 2013

What have I been doing since my holiday?

I’ve been so busy in the fortnight since we’ve been back from Portugal that I’ve not been able to update my blog as much as I’d hoped. Here’s a quick rundown of what I’ve been up to. CC6 The Sunday morning after we got back was a cross-country race out in the New Forest. It was hard getting up in...

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Hi, I'm Tamsyn!

Triathlete | Blogger | Running Coach & Fitness Instructor

As an overweight couch potato, I decided to turn my life around. I lost over 33lbs/15kg and now love keeping fit and healthy. In February 2013, I set myself a challenge to complete an iron-distance triathlon (2.4 mile/3.8k swim; 112 mile/180k bike; 26.2 mile/42.2k run).

Since starting my triathlon journey, I’ve:

learnt to swim and completed a 17.5km sea swim

bought my first road bike and cycled across Japan

run six marathons.

had a baby.

I’ve not completed an Ironman yet… but I’m getting there.