"No special preparation is needed", those are the words of Don Fink, Ironman triathlon training guru in reference to 100 mile cycle rides. I've taken those words to heart. Perhaps a little too much. In contrast to the Don Fink school of thought, Ride London 100 keeps emailing me to tell me about all the [...]
When I started running five years ago it was hard and definitely wasn't something I'd call fun. But I carried on doing it because there was an image in the back of my mind of me running barefoot down a beach smiling. That was what I wanted.Somewhere along the line, as I trained for my [...]
You can avoid looking at a certain page in your diary, avert your eyes away from the calendar every time you go into the kitchen and even flee the country for two weeks, but that race day is still happening. It’s all happening a bit fast. I did a sprint triathlon in May. My first [...]
I asked you to ask me anything and what a polite lot you are, you asked about running… mostly. Here’s your questions and my answers...What training did you use to go sub 4?EMI used a radical approach which saw me going travelling for four months and only lacing up my trainers once a week if [...]
A man once ran up to me in a race to ask me how long I'd been running. I answered: "Oh only about 18 months." Thinking he must have liked my stride and thought I'd been running for as long as I could walk. "No," he said, "I mean today. How long have you been [...]
Super cyclist (she came second in a time trial the other week you know) Katie from Cake of Good Hope is here to tell us all about shorts.“But where does it go?” I asked my friend. Two novice cyclists looked quizzically at a pot of Vaseline before setting off on a bike ride from John [...]
Hi there, my name is Jen, aka Rainbow Jen – as I love to wear the most garishly bright running outfits possible. I blog over at Two Itchy Feet. Normally which is a running blog, but as I’ve been laid up since February with a running injury, it’s slowly morphed into something like a ‘how [...]
I finished a four mile club run on Wednesday night having run comfortably hard the whole way. For the first half a group of three guys were about 10 meters ahead of me. Every so often I'd hear their Garmin's make that familiar Garmin sound. Beep. Beep. Beep. As we rounded a corner at halfway [...]
To say my open water swim technique could use a bit of wok is an understatement. Since my debut triathlon where I seemingly forgot how to swim properly, I returned to the pool to confirm that this wasn't the case. 45 minutes of swimming up and down later and I was left frustrated that I [...]
I realise I'm in danger of alienating a good number of readers with what I'm about to write. But I'm going to write it anyway. I wish a few more women would write things like this. I love my legs.You might think this vain or proud. I don't. I'm tired of seeing magazine polls that [...]