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A cheap 12-day trial of a private gym, a month of illness, Christmas and new year celebrations etc meant that I didn’t attend the Glasgow Triathlon Club Thursday evening running session for a while. Sadly, I was then I was left with the thought that I might get left behind in a session that I [...]

Triathlon is not just for gown-ups – it’s for kids, too. And due to popular demand (not just from parents who need a couple of hours to themselves at the weekend!), Glasgow Triathlon Club has launched a dedicated children’s training section. Based at the new Maryhill Swimming Pool on Sundays, children can come along at [...]

Let’s get one thing straight first of all. If you’re imagining that former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has become a born-again sea kayaker you’d be wrong. Instead,  the Sea kayak DVD features one of Britain’s leading kayaking coaches, also called Gordon Brown. This is a review of the second volume in a series of extremely [...]

TOP Ele (Triathlete always to be found On a Podium) can’t resist a challenge. She likes tough triathlons. The tougher the better, it seems.  And so she decided to aim for this year’s Alpe D’Huez Triathlon. This triathlon isn’t of the normal “set” distances of Half Ironman or Ironman. It has its own distances. The [...]

Taper. It’s a lovely word and in the sporting world it comes after many months of hard graft. With less than a week to go before my somewhat daunting Virgin London Olympic Triathlon 2011 I am very happy to be enjoying a little tapering. (Yes, I know, that’s eight letters!) The reason for a taper [...]

Three training sessions this week. Two punctures. One closure. And one almighty feeling of sickness. Hmmm. I’m not sure things are going too well as I continue to prepare for the London Olympic Distance Triathlon. On Monday, following Sunday’s Peebles Triathlon effort, I took a well-earned rest day. Tuesday I planned to cycle to an [...]

It is women like Jane Holmes that inspire me to aspire for even better times in my sporting events. Jane was the first lady to cross the line of  Peebles Triathlon 2011 on Sunday. She is 42, has three children and is a busy farmer’s wife in Duns yet she still trounced all the other [...]

Of course, you knew there would be Part 2, after Part 1 was published earlier this week! While part 1 focused on the physical agony of turbo training to boost anaerobic and aerobic threshold, Part 2 describes the physical agony of swimming to exhaustion, and for, seemingly, the same gains Discussing this concept with the [...]

When part of your triathlon training programme says: “Ride to failure” you know you’re in for a tough session. This has been stated for each of the last three week’s turbo sessions. Warm up, build up the steady riding, increase the intensity and then give it your all until your legs fail! (For those that [...]

Over the last 10 days of so I’ve written a few blogs about the Lanzarote sports heaven called Club La Santa. Fantastic cycling and a Club La Santa High. I had a fantastic time, but there was one event that I was not looking forward to at all: Open Water Swimming. I had hoped the Glasgow [...]