Road to IRONMAN Blog #23 – Arrived in Mallorca! This weekend I landed in Mallorca! It felt somewhat surreal being on a plane, seeing the mountains of Mallorca as we got closer to the island and then touching down. This was the first time I’ve flown since Dec 2019 so…

I ‘d like to start this week’s blog by saying a huge thank you to Snowplow, someone anonymous and my Grandparents for your donations of £250, $25 & £50 respectively to my fundraising towards MIND, it’s highly appreciated — thank you all! This week has been focusing on a taper…

Starting this blog off on a huge positive, I ‘d like to say a huge thank you to my neighbours, Janet and Tony for donating £250 to the fundraising effort for MIND, it’s massively appreciated — thank you! Super short and simple update for this week, off the back of…

This past weekend has been a challenging one in terms of training, with some hard sessions during the week, but very positive in terms of results. The highlights for me were a PB in my distance ran in an hour, which was 7.85 …

Accommodation booked, no alcohol drunk and rest week recooperation complete. This week’s training was more to aid recovery than to push forwards and that was welcomed! I also decided towards the end of August that I would probably challenge myself not to drink any alcohol in the remaining 6 week…

This week I was feeling pretty tired to start with during the morning sessions, often tied in with an early bedtime! The weekend’s training whilst tough went pretty well and I was close to a PB for my 112 bike ride, until it got dark. On Friday I had a…

This week’s training went very well, including a number of swim sessions, peaking to a 4000m distance session in just under 1.5 hrs. Importantly I booked my IRONMAN for the 16th October in Mallorca! …

The 2 rest days this week tricked me! As I’m getting around to writing this at half ten on Sunday eve, I’m feeling the effects of the weekend’s training. The training during the week wasn’t easy, but not crazy, however I had a feeling the weekend’s sessions would be fairly…

I hit a number of personal achievements in my training this week including a 1 hour run with a new faster average split, hitting my PB on my 112mile ride and getting in a 15.5 mile run. My training this week looked like: Monday: 30min recovery swim, ~1500m. Tuesday: 1hr…