Fat Girl to Ironman

1 May 2014

Day 1 of Pyrenees Tri Camp with Embrace Sports

It’s been a while since I’ve had a break, so I was really looking forward to our second Tri Camp with Embrace Sports. The day before, Tobie from BikeGuy came over to help Stu and I disassemble our bikes and pack them in our cases. As we’ve both had bike fits, we had to mark settings very carefully. You can...

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29 April 2014

I’m a Challenge Weymouth winner!

A couple of weeks ago, I took part in a Twitter competition to win a limited edition Challenge Weymouth t-shirt. I had forgotten all about it when this appeared in my inbox: …and this week it arrived! It’s going to be perfect for doing some training in 🙂 Have you ever won a competition? What did you win?

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27 April 2014

More good news :-)

I found out today that I’ve been accepted as a Girls Gone Sporty ambassador 🙂 What’s on the Girls Gone Sporty website? If you haven’t heard of Girls Gone Sporty before, then I’d recommend that you visit the website. It includes: Fitness. This page includes all of the latest posts on topics such as yoga, Zumba and running. Interviews. As it suggests,...

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27 April 2014

Time to waste? Check these out…

I’m really struggling with hayfever at the moment, which isn’t making my life easy. I’ve been going to bed at a reasonable time, but am struggling to breathe. When the wheezing gets too bad, I end up getting up as I can breathe more easily when I’m in an upright position. This means that I usually end up downstairs on...

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19 April 2014

Season’s best for running

My running has not been going well recently (by recently, I mean the last two years), but I am determined to do something about it, so now that Brighton Marathon is over, I’ve rehauled my training schedule and have started planning for Challenge Weymouth 70.3. I have the slightly optimistic goal of finishing the run in under 2:15, which is...

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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...

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16 April 2014

Possibly the longest transitions imaginable…

My employer is very generous, so as well as having Good Friday and Easter Monday off work, I also have today and Thursday off, which means that I have some time to catch up with training, blogging, coaching planning and housework. My new coaching schedule said that I needed to do 90 minutes of swimming, 90 minutes of cycling and...

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16 April 2014

Best bike ride ever!

It’s been another busy week with some swimming, baking and the New Forest Spring Sportive. After all of my training recently, my lovely husband bought me a beautiful bouquet of Oriental lilies. They are my favourite flowers and they smell gorgeous. Saturday swim On Saturday morning, I decided to go swimming instead of running. I’ve only been swimming with the...

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11 April 2014

A Promise to Dad

This week’s interview is with Sandra from ‘A Promise to Dad‘. Sandra has been blogging about her life and training in Nebraska following the loss of her father in 2011. Sandra shares her adventures as a swimmer, cyclist and runner, including lots of lovely photos in the mix. I’ve been holding onto this fantastic interview for a while as I...

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10 April 2014

I’ve moved!

Woohoo – the information for my next race has arrived! I’ve got a sportive this weekend and then I’m doing my first triathlon of the year – Try Tri’s Good Fri Tri. I hated my last pool-based, but I get less stressed about swimming in close proximity to other people now, so I’m hoping that it will go well. I...

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