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Road to IRONMAN Blog #24 — It’s done! Completing my first IRONMAN.

What an incredible event it was on the 16th October, with 9.5 months of training and arriving in Mallorca, I got to complete my first…

10 min readOct 24, 2021

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #24 — It’s done! Completing my first IRONMAN.

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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…

4 min readOct 10, 2021

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #23 – Arrived in Mallorca!

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #22–A huge thank you to Snowplow, someone anonymous & my Grandparents +…

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…

3 min readOct 3, 2021

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #22–A huge thank you to Snowplow, someone anonymous & my Grandparents +…

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #21–Rest week and a lovely donation from my neighbours!

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…

2 min readSep 26, 2021

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #21–Rest week and a lovely donation from my neighbours!

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #20–PBing my 112 mile ride and a 20 mile run

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…

4 min readSep 19, 2021

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #20–PBing my 112 mile ride and a 20 mile run

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #19–Updates along the way

Accommodation booked, no alcohol drunk and rest week recooperation complete. This week’s training was more to aid recovery than to push…

2 min readSep 12, 2021

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #19–Updates along the way

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #18–Almost a new PB for the 112 mile ride

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…

3 min readSep 5, 2021

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #18–Almost a new PB for the 112 mile ride

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #17–16th October in Mallorca

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…

2 min readAug 30, 2021

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #17–16th October in Mallorca

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #16 — a 3.8km swim, 87mile ride and a 11.5 mile run

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…

4 min readAug 22, 2021

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #16 — a 3.8km swim, 87mile ride and a 11.5 mile run

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #15 — Another 112 mile ride & PB

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…

2 min readAug 15, 2021

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Road to IRONMAN Blog #15 — Another 112 mile ride & PB

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Callum Jenkins

Hey, I'm Callum! These are my blogs about my route to completing my first IRONMAN - updates, inspiration and motivation for others. Let's go...!

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