In yesterday’s New York City Marathon 2022 Day 1 post I had travelled over from the UK and hit the expo up. Today’s plan is really straightforward. Run the 5k in the morning then spend as much time as possible off my feet ahead of tomorrow’s marathon. I slept really well last night, 2min shy of 8hrs which for me is really good. I am … Continue reading NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2022 – DAY 2: ABBOTT DASH TO THE FINISH 5k
Finally, after 3 years I am heading back to New York to run the marathon. This is my fourth New York City marathon after racing in 2017, 2018 and 2019. If the world had gone to plan this would have been number 6 after 2020 was cancelled and then missing out due to the travel ban in 2021. I am just really happy to be … Continue reading NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2022 – DAY 1: TRAVEL DAY & EXPO
After my Kona Day 5 post on Friday, I didn’t go much yesterday… just the small matter of the Ironman World Championship. I posted a separate Ironman World Championship Race Recap if you want to see how that went. Other than the race, there was nothing else to write about so we move on to Sunday, day 7 and the final day here on the … Continue reading KONA – DAY 7: LAST DAY IN HAWAII
On my fifth day here in Hawaii I turned my attention to the actual reason I am out here, the race which is now tomorrow! The plan for today is to head out for an easy 40 min ride and just as easy 15 min run off the bike to shake out the legs one last time. I was up at 5:30am today after a … Continue reading KONA – DAY 5: BIKE, HELMET & GEAR CHECK-IN
Well, we are now into my fourth day on this trip already and today is the first of the two Ironman World Championship races. This year due to a large number of deferrals from 2020 and 2021 (including me) they have split the race into two to allow for a greater number of athletes. This meant that they could split out the women’s race to … Continue reading KONA – DAY 4: WOMENS WORLD CHAMPS
Wednesday is the day I have been looking forward to the most on this trip. Yep, even more than the Ironman World Champs race on Saturday (I know how brutal that is going to be lol). Today I went out for an around the island day trip to see quite a lot of the major sights on the Big Island. Before I came out here … Continue reading KONA – DAY 3: DAY TRIP
Tuesday is the second day on the Kona trip and the first full day on the Big Island. I didn’t sleep too great last night, the jetlag had me waking every hour, I finally gave up at 4:30am and got up. Kinda glad I did get up early at least one day whilst out here, I was able to head outside and watch the sunrise … Continue reading KONA – DAY 2: IRONMAN REGISTRATION
Well here we go, the blog series I always wanted to write but never really thought I would get to do. The Ironman World Championship Kona blog series!! Kona has been that ultimate goal / bucket list event for me, like most triathletes. When I set out on my triathlon journey 5 years ago I didn’t think I would have this opportunity but here I … Continue reading KONA – DAY 1: TRAVEL DAY
With so much of the 2020 race plan cancelled or postponed, I am starting to look at my plans for 2021 as I do not see much chance of the postponed races going ahead in 2020. Where I have been given the option, I have deferred entries over to 2021 to give more time for things to a more normal. My thinking is, I cannot … Continue reading PLANNING FOR 2021
It has been one month since I received the e-mail advising that the Boston Marathon had been postponed to September. In that time I have had most of my planned races for 2020 either postponed or cancelled. Postponed: Manchester Marathon B.A.A. 5k Boston Marathon Ironman 70.3 Mallorca Ironman 70.3 Staffordshire Cancelled: Tour of Tameside Ironman Ireland Ironman UK During those first few weeks, motivated took … Continue reading IT’S BEEN A MINUTE
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