Fat Girl to Ironman

21 September 2013

Mmmmmm…. massages

This has been a week of recovery and preparation. After last week’s challenges: 14 miles of running on Thursday 50 miles of cycling on Friday an early start and a day of enthusiastic cheering and spectating at the London triathlon on Saturday Victory 5 mile race on Sunday Run Leading on Monday A freezing lake swim on Tuesday I decided...

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21 September 2013

5 miles – Overton and Victory

I’ve been feeling a bit tired recently, so I decided not to do parkrun before Overton this year. In 2011, I did parkrun in the morning and got a PB before doing Overton in the afternoon. It was also kind of a PB as it was my first ever 5-mile race. Overton is an unusual race in that it is...

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10 September 2013

Where am I now? Assessing my progress.

Just over five months ago, I came up with a basic five year strategy: http://fatgirltoironman.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/failure-to-plan-is-like-planning-to-fail/ Year Swimming Cycling Running Triathlon 2013 800m swim √ 42k cycletta or 82k Marathon Novice – Newbury 2014 1600m swim 63 mile sportive (IoW) Marathon Sprint 2015 2k swim 86 mile sportive Marathon Olympic 2016 3k swim 100 mile sportive Marathon Half Ironman 2017 4k...

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9 September 2013

Fat boy to Ironman… and a bit of shopping

Thanks to Amazon, I today learned that there is a book called ‘Fatboy to Ironman‘. It’s only available in Kindle edition, but it may be interesting to take a look at it. I didn’t know it existed until today (just in case you were wondering whether I had plagiarised it to come up with a name for my blog!) My...

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6 September 2013

Swimming, cycling and running in Cornwall

Are you sitting comfortably? This could be a long post! I booked two weeks off work to go home to Cornwall and see my sister and her boyfriend who are over from Australia. The weather was gorgeous so I managed to get some swim bike run love in although I probably should have done some more running. I also caught...

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5 September 2013

Nothing more to say

I’ve not blogged for a while, but I saw this on ‘Fit for a year’ and wanted to share it 🙂

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12 August 2013

Should I change my name?

No, not ‘Tamsyn‘ – I like that one – thanks, mum and dad! One issue that I’d like to blog about today is the title of my blog (‘Fat Girl to Ironman’, in case you’d forgotten). A couple of my lovely friends (who are much slimmer than me) – yes, that’s you Irene and Ellie – have suggested that they...

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11 August 2013

Marathon training long run

Today’s long run was 26.31km – that’s about 16.5 miles. I left home at 8am and jogged to meet Pete at 8:15am. We then ran up to the top of The Common to meet Irene before heading over to Lordswood. The original plan was to meet Kirsty. She had consumed a little too much ‘pink wine’ at a wedding reception...

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10 August 2013

Reverse duathlon in the Forest

A few weeks ago as part of my marathon training, I ran out to Brockenhurst parkrun. It was a hot run and I don’t especially like running along the main road (does anyone?!) I also prefer to run with company. It’s a good mental challenge to do a long run on my own every once in a while. Mob match...

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9 August 2013

The Ironman that never was.

This morning, I felt shattered, so I decided not to get up and go for a swim. Then I made the radical decision to ignore my schedule entirely, so instead of rescheduling my swim for after work, I decided to have a rest day. This is quite unlike me, but I felt that my body needed a break. Anyway, since...

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