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Weekly Round Up – 21-27 Mar: Switching Bikes and New Shoes
TT Bike Fiona went out for a 2 hour ride on her TT bike the day after Tranent Triathlon – see previous weekly roundup. Half way into that ride her chain snapped adding to the misery from the previous day. Luckily Ian and his mate Jon were on their ride at the same...
Weekly Round Up – 14-20 Mar: First Triathlon of the Season
Tranent Triathlon On Saturday 2 of my athletes, Fiona and Simon, were due to race the Tranent Sprint Triathlon, organised by the Edinburgh University Triathlon Club. Unfortunately Simon’s heel started hurting somewhat out of the blue 2 days earlier so he had to sit...
Weekly Round Up – 7-13 Mar: 16 minutes
I lost 16 minutes I had a big week in terms of training hours last week coming off my first weekend in a while without a race. According to Strava I exercised for 24 hours last week. The week was dominated by an 86 km bike ride on Wednesday, a 28k run on Thursday, a...
Weekly Round Up – 29 Feb-6 Mar: Hills in various forms
Skiing again Only 1 week after our ski trip to Glencoe saw us return to Scottish skiing slopes. This time we headed for Glenshee. The forecast was mixed with a low chance of some sun but wind dropping during the day. We got held up on our way there as there was a...
Weekly Round Up – 22-28 Feb: A day’s skiing
A busy week with a day in Glencoe and 2 days of racing over the weekend. Skiing In 2015 Fiona and I had tried to get up North skiing during the week when we could to avoid the weekend crowds. We decided to do the same again this year and with the winter finally...
Weekly roundup – 15-21 Feb: From Snow to Mud
Another good training week and a mixed weekend in terms of race results for the team. Pentland Ride and shorter stuff My friend Mike had taken Monday off work and suggested we should head to the Pentland Hills on the mountain bikes. I was thrown into a bit of a...