Tag: season’s best

8 December 2019

Aiming for a season’s best

I’ll be honest this year running has been really hard. I’ve struggled with illness, weight gain, tiredness, stress and motivation issues. All of this meant that my ‘season’s best time’ for 5km was in a pretty poor state. In late summer, I decided to try and get back on top of things by returning to Lordshill Road Runners. It was...

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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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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.