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Mike's Training Blog: 2012 Season
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Sunday, October 21, 2012. First post in along time. No quite sure why. I guess I had nothing to write about. The only way to describe season 2012 is - disappointing. Having ended year 2011 with a time trial PB of 55:52 for 25 miles I had high hopes for 2012 and racing Ironman again. The preparation started off well and I was in the best shape in January for the time of the year. We had a week in Lanzarote and I was swimming, riding and running well. On the first weekend of July I raced Ironman Regensburg...
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Mike's Training Blog: May 2011
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011. It's been a while since the last post from Mallorca. After a good training camp things have not exactly gone to plan. I've done some early season road races and time trials with pretty average results. I'm reasonably fit, but so far have failed to convert this general fitness into race fitness or any results to speak of. In the end it turned out to be a nice holiday, but one of the worst places to do any time trial training. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Mike's Training Blog: October 2012
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Sunday, October 21, 2012. First post in along time. No quite sure why. I guess I had nothing to write about. The only way to describe season 2012 is - disappointing. Having ended year 2011 with a time trial PB of 55:52 for 25 miles I had high hopes for 2012 and racing Ironman again. The preparation started off well and I was in the best shape in January for the time of the year. We had a week in Lanzarote and I was swimming, riding and running well. On the first weekend of July I raced Ironman Regensburg...
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Mike's Training Blog: Madeira 2011
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011. It's been a while since the last post from Mallorca. After a good training camp things have not exactly gone to plan. I've done some early season road races and time trials with pretty average results. I'm reasonably fit, but so far have failed to convert this general fitness into race fitness or any results to speak of. In the end it turned out to be a nice holiday, but one of the worst places to do any time trial training. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Mike's Training Blog: August 2010
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Monday, August 2, 2010. ITU World Long Distance Triathlon Championships. On Sunday I raced at the ITU World Championships in Immenstadt, Germany as part of the British age group team. As I didn't qualify for the Ironman World Championships this was going to be my ocassion to measure myself against some of the best triathletes in the world in my age group, so I wanted to do well in this race. The race was very well organised and it was great to be able to rack the bikes on race morning and not having to w...
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Mike's Training Blog: Winter Training
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Monday, December 6, 2010. The winter wonderland has descended upon us making training conditions "challenging". Upon returning from Mexico I started my winter preparation for next season, concentrating mainly on cycling. In the first week after we got back I had my first "lab test". Needless to say I didn't break any records and the results were fairly disappointing. That's how I'm spending quite a lot of my time at the moment:. Wow, 3 hours on a damn trainer thing.wow, thats good!
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Mike's Training Blog: September 2010
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Sunday, September 19, 2010. Last weekend was my penultimate race of the season the Long Course London Duathlon at Richmond Park. The race was run over an unusual "long" distance of 20km run 77km bike and 10km run in a beautiful setting of the Richmond Park over roads closed to traffic. Man Unfortunately 3rd was still way in front so the last couple of km were just about getting to the finish as by then my legs were cramping up pretty badly. Run time 44:30. I finished in 4:26 in 4th place overall and 1st ...
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Mike's Training Blog: Mallorca - 2011/02
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Sunday, February 13, 2011. Sadly my first PBscienc. Training camp has come to an end. We had great 7 days in the Mallorcan. Spring sun and I've learned a lot. Mostly about the fact that more isn't always better. The weather was fabulous for this time of the year - every day it was around 15C and sunny. The camp was organised with military precision and professionalism. But also with enough flexibility to allow for plans to be modified to suit our goals. Of course there was also a fun element to the camp ...
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Mike's Training Blog: November 2010
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Saturday, November 6, 2010. End of season review. It's a beginning of November and after my end of season break it's time to get back to training and also to reflect on the last season. I took me a long time to get to write this bog entry and I actually even considered if I should. In March I did the Ballbuster Duathlon and came 11th Overall and 2nd Vet, despite a puncture on the last lap. I was happy with that. 2nd overall at the Eaton Human race sprint distance in 1:05:59. 143 in 4:31:56 at 70.3 Au...
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Mike's Training Blog: June 2010
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Sunday, June 6, 2010. Last weekend Chris and I raced the 70.3 St Polten Ironman in Austria. I was using the race as a preparation for the upcoming European IM Championships in Frankfurt and didn't really taper for the race, but wanted to go hard and check my form. The race was held in a small town town 1 hour drive from Vienna in a rural location. We stayed in a local guesthouse 10km from the start in a rural location. It was basic, but comfortable and adequate. The swim went quite well, I got to a clean...