We are now 5 weeks on from Ironman 70.3 Mallorca where I sustained a grade 2 tear of my right calf which ultimately forced me to withdraw from the race. I posted my initial thoughts on the race, weekend and injury in my IRONMAN 70.3 MALLORCA 2019 RACE RECAP and now wanted to put down how things are progressing. As soon as I felt it go when … Continue reading INJURY UPDATE
Well, this isn’t the blog I had planned to be writing about my three days in New York. The plan had been to blog daily about my time here and post race recaps from the Brooklyn Half Marathon and also the GFNY World Championship race, however, I was not able to take part in either race. During IRONMAN 70.3 MALLORCA last week, I tore my calf muscle … Continue reading A WEEKEND IN NEW YORK
This is the second in my Mallorca Daily blog series, DAY 1 was all about travelling out here, getting set up and registering for the race. Day 2 has been pretty relaxed as you might guess. I woke at 7:40am, jumped straight into my wetsuit and was in the sea by 07:58. Not a bad turn around if you ask me. I wanted to get in the … Continue reading IRONMAN 70.3 MALLORCA – DAY 2: RACKING & RELAXING
This is the first of my daily blog posts whilst out in Mallorca for the Ironman 70.3 Mallorca race. Today was a bit of a messy day with travelling, getting all of the admin stuff done and settling into the hotel. Continue reading IRONMAN 70.3 MALLORCA – DAY 1: TRAVEL & REGISTRATION
With two weeks to go until race day I thought I would set out my goal for the Brooklyn Half Marathon. My goal is simple. I am going here to race, I have been targetting this race since I signed up for the NYRR Virtual 6 programme in March 2018. This was how I got my place in the race and has been a goal … Continue reading BROOKLYN HALF MARATHON HOPES & DREAMS
Now that I am close to completing my goal of running the 6 world marathon majors (just Boston remaining), I have been thinking about what I will do after I have ticked that one off. I am the type of guy who likes to have something to work towards. I don’t like signing up for one race, training for it, running it and then sitting … Continue reading THE SPEED PROJECT
This is a brief description on why I chose not to run the Manchester marathon last weekend. Continue reading WHY I DIDN’T RUN THE MANCHESTER MARATHON
With the Manchester marathon now 1 week away, these are my thoughts on race day and a rough idea of what I will be attempting to run. That said, I did have a plan for Tokyo but ended up running 15 mins faster than my wildest dreams. Continue reading GREATER MANCHESTER MARATHON HOPES & DREAMS
My final day in Tokyo, well half day really with flying out at lunchtime. This is pretty much just a round up to finish off the trip. Continue reading TOKYO MARATHON 2019 – DAY 6: BACK HOME
This is the only day that really matters from this trip. Race day, the only reason I booked this trip. Most of the day is covered in my separate race recap post but you can read on to see what else happened today. Continue reading TOKYO MARATHON 2019 – DAY 5: RACE DAY.
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