May has not been a good month. Unfortunately I crashed off my bike while training and broke my elbow (olecranon fracture specifically). It required surgery too so I had 5 screws and a long plate put into my elbow to support it. Fortunately after surgery i was not put in a cast and allowed lightContinue reading “May Update- Bike crash with Broken Elbow”
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April-British Triathlon Performance Assessments
April was all about the British Triathlon performance assessments, which was the qualifying race for the Youth Commonwealth games in Trinidad and Tobago. To qualify I would to get top 6 overall and 1st scot. The 400m swim was up first on the Saturday. Although we didn’t get a pool warm up, we still managedContinue reading “April-British Triathlon Performance Assessments”
March update- much of the same
Throughout March I have been building intensity slightly within my training as the British Triathlon Performance assessments draws near. There is an explanation of how it works in my previous blog, but I’ll include it at the bottom too. However, on the whole training has been very similar to the last few months, and runningContinue reading “March update- much of the same”
Start of Year Update
It’s been a while since my last post, but there’s much more positive news. I had a few weeks off, then a few weeks of less than 10k/week running at the start of this year/end of last. However, I started getting shockwave treatment on my achilies, thanks to the Scottish institute of sport, which hasContinue reading “Start of Year Update”
End of year update
After a wonderful end to the season, I had a week off to let mind mind and body recover. Normally I would have a bit longer but because I had missed so much training due to injury I decided to take a bit less time off. Since I was injury free at that point IContinue reading “End of year update”
September update – last couple races
As mentioned in my previous blog my next race was on the 1st of September in Loughborough- the school games 2022. It was a very different format to normal. On the first day there were aquathlon heats and finals. On the second day there was an individual circuit test, and then a few hours laterContinue reading “September update – last couple races”
August update-BSS grand final
August has been the best month of this year so far. All. My niggles and injuries have finally healed so I’ve just been increasing my training steadily. I also raced the British Super Series grand final in Sunderland. I had an awful start after getting pushed back on the start line(it was a beach start)Continue reading “August update-BSS grand final”
July-Mallory Park BSS
My strained tendon wasn’t completely healed at the start of the month so that meant no hard running for another 2 weeks. I was on holiday for the 2 and a half weeks before Mallory which meant my preparation wasn’t great. I did however manage to do my first proper run session since December whileContinue reading “July-Mallory Park BSS”
June-Lochore Aquathlon
In June I continued to build back up to full training, but it didn’t go as smoothly as planned. I was building up training until Lochore Aquathlon in mid June, but had to take a few days off after that due to sickness. Then I had to take a further week easier as a tendonContinue reading “June-Lochore Aquathlon”
May update-still building
Fore this month has just been about progressing total training load and introducing running. I’ve now started doing very short easy runs as opposed to the previous run the walk stuff. I’ve been doing some swimming and cycling, but I’m still a good bit off my normal training as I have to be very carefulContinue reading “May update-still building”
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