TR: I followed your advice and rode the bike as if I had stolen it. Feck me, that was a push. Glad that there was Mr White Bike to chase. He reckoned that I just charged away ahead of him in the run. I know that my running is WAAAAAAY off pace. Well spotted. The swim has got more to come, there are easy gains there.
RFJ: Now that is what I call a good race, and one that you should be proud of. Yes it was up and down, but that’s what makes them interesting. I’m especially pleased that you had a realistic target time and that there was a game plan appropriate for it. Your attitude to the way that the race developed showed a very mature attitude and a strong will. It appears that you were mentally in control all the way through to the finishing line. If you can do 1:26 on a rolling course, then with the same fitness level you can do better on a flatter one. (Thinks) Stroud,Bath, dunno aboutReading. FS Oxford’s flat, there MUST be another out there. BTW, what you called as cutting it fine, I called carefully managed. Shoot too hard, blow up, big embarrassment.
Pammie: I’ve looked at those splits, and you will need to apologise for that one at 5:34. NOT acceptable. What were you thinking? Seriously, that was another well planned and well executed delivery. Others might have been slightly annoyed about the club “manager” mis-counting the number of entrants (what else do they do?) but you appeared to be sanguine about it. That moves you well up the ladder of people I respect.
Marders: Now there’s a bloke. I raced him once. He lapped me at Abingdon Marathon as I was jogging along with Plodding Hippo at the back. OK, so I did put a spurt on for a chat, but lasted barely 100m at the pace he was cracking out. He won it in 2:23 or something. That’s close to a National vest.
Other Half: Now that is what I call a plan that involves a whole life balance.
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Training (!) An hour at the swimming pool, with evil drills and sessions devised by an IronMan with a calf injury and a vendetta. Not many there, so we all got heavy scrutiny on stroke pattern and stuff. As a result I now have several muscle tightness areas that I am trying to relax with Hobgoblin and Talisker.
