To keep me motivated, add to the training and raise a bit of money before the big event next year i’m doing the following so far 5th September – 108mile tour of Britain leg from Minehead to Teignmouth 12th September – Weymouth Olympic Distance Triathlon (1600m/40km/10km – swim bike run) 12 th September – Rowcroft [...]
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Having recovered from my sports massage and the niggling ITB injury (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliotibial_band_syndrome), Sunday saw a much shorter bike ride from Teignmouth through Starcross and up Manhead hill (doing 3 reps of the hill) and then loopingback down through Chudleigh. A few people at the top saw me reach the top of the hill saw me and [...]
Last year, my company (well mainly 3 of us) took on the Dragons challenge to raise money for the NSPCC – we mainly did this through a raffle – with pretty good prizes (£1000cash, a Sony HD TV, Laptop, Mobile phone, etc). So on wednesday night we got to go to the launch of this [...]
Had a bit of a break from training on Saturday by doing the Round Robin trip from Paignton to Totnes by bus, then Totnes to Dartmouth by Boat before catching the steam train back to Paignton. It was a great day out, and a good chance to top up on fluids Sunday was a 53mile [...]
Oooh too tired to type! After the standard rest day on saturday, Sunday was a huuge ride, doing 102miles in total, with 3950ft of climbing (i never want to see another hill again!) Cant wait for tomorrows run!!! Peak Hill in Sidmouth below – not the highest hill on our 4000ft climb route – but [...]
So far I’ve been following an Olympic Triathlon training plan written into an iPhone app called TriTrainer (by Jammy and Co) this has been great to use so far and keeps a record of your training and overall progress. The app has been really useful for planning training and quite motivating to get to fill [...]
The week obviously started with a big ride (83miles) and the plan is to do a recovery ride mid week and try and get in 20 miles or so, and maybe also a brick session with another 10 mile ride. We will be doing another longer ride in week 10 possibly 160km! (ouch) and then [...]
Well the sunday ride was a little longer than we expected and turned out to be 83 miles with circa 3000ft of climbing – although the route seemed quite fast compared to the steep hills of Dartmoor. We decided to do the ride heading to Dartmouth first and get alot of the hills out the [...]
I’ve just signed up for the South West charity tour ride, which follows the tour of Britain bike course from Minehead to Teignmouth – its only 110Miles!!! More details here http://www.tourride.co.uk/rides.asp#rides-south-west
This weeks long ride is a bit of a sight seeing tour of Devon, taking in Dawlish, The Exe estuary, Exeter, Teign Valley, Newton Abbot, Totnes, historic Dartmouth (including the ferry across the Dart), Paignton and Torquay, before heading for home! Total ascent 3200ft and some look a little steep !!
