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| Tour of Britain 2012 - Stage 2 - Nottingham (I'm behind Wiggo in the white cycle helmet) |
What have I been up to since? Well as I planned this winter, running has played a huge part of my training for the last 3 months, I've just finished the Strava Base Miles Blast for January completing over 220 miles of running in the month, I finished 250th from over 10,000 participants in the world (43rd in the UK), had to run over 40 miles in the last 2 days to top the club league.
So 2013, I've got my race diary sorted, starts with a few 10k's next month, then a half marathon, then Brigg Bomber Quadrathlon (http://www.lincsquad.co.uk/events/brigg-bomber/) , a GB age group qualifier then, Challenge Roth, Ironman UK, hopefully the National Team Relays Triathlon in August then finish the year with The Beacons Ultra run.
General weekly training plan is all sorted, just needs a few tweaks for pre race & post race weeks, so I'm feeling quite happy where I'm at.
I'm planning to get out on the bike and swim this month, whilst maintaining my run form. Then into March where I have an idea for another challenge IRON MONTH should be fun, interested? read on!
How many Iron distance triathlons can you complete in March, the rules are simple;
- disciplines can be in any order
- disciplines can be over multiple sessions, so you can build up the distance in each discipline as you go.
- you can't move on to the next Iron until you've clocked a full IRON distance triathlon, that's, 2.4 miles of swimming, 112 miles of biking & 26.2 miles of running ...... then repeat.
- surplus mileage doesn't count, as soon as you've clocked the distance in the last discipline the mileage counter is reset to zero.
Should be fun & anyone can give it a go .....
If you want to join me, post your updates on this blog post or follow/ tweet me on twitter @philbinch
