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TW Relay Team: Dominique's Bike Blog #7
By Dominique Brady on 12/08/2011 10:02:07
Did all the training pay off on race day?
On the day that top British triathlete Helen Jenkins secured her London 2012 qualification slot with an inspiring win in the Dextro Energy Triathlon London, another team got ready to take on the Hyde Park course: The TW Relay Team.As the watch hands rushed ever closer to our race...
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TW Relay Team: James's Run Blog #7
By James Barnard on 12/08/2011 11:07:40
It's race day. Find out how James got on in the running leg of the Hyde Park Triathlon and if he cracked a 20-minute 5K
The ITU Dextro Energy Hyde Park Triathlon crept up on me. No sooner had I started training than I found myself in the grand stand at Hyde Park watching Helen Jenkins romp home to victory, a few hours before the relay teams would set off.This was my first experience of triathlon. ...
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TW Relay Team: Dominique's Bike Blog #8
By Dominique Brady on 01/09/2011 17:31:53
Dominique gets to grips with some 'good vibrations' with the new powerBIKE™
"Are you ready for the good vibrations?" asks Lars Harms, the UK Academy & Education Manager of Power Plate. It's an unusual question to be asked by a stranger on a Thursday morning, but then I am testing out a rather unusual piece of machinery.The powerBIKE™, the new baby of ...
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TW Relay Team: James's Run Blog #6
By James Barnard on 04/08/2011 09:20:10
In his penultimate post, James has a fitness assessment to see if he has what it takes to run a sub 20-minute 5K.
With one week left until my running leg of the Hyde Park Triathlon, I visited Bupa's London branch for a fitness assessment. The aim? To find out if I've got the potential to run a sub 20-minute 5K at my current level of fitness and if not, then how I can get there. That's not an...
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TW Relay Team: Dominique's Bike Blog #2
By Dominique Brady on 17/06/2011 14:48:22
Triathletesworld.co.uk Editorial Assistant Dominique Brady heads to Manchester Velodrome for an elite cycling experience
When an email pinged into my inbox from Gatorade, inviting me to train with elite GB cyclists at the Manchester Velodrome and do a (gross-sounding) 'sweat test', it took seconds for me to say yes.And so last Monday evening I left London for a much sunnier Manchester. After a good...
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TW Relay Team: Alice's Swim Blog #2
By Alice Palmer on 21/06/2011 16:48:28
In which a GB swim coach teaches me that breathing is for wimps (sort of).
In one of many perks of my job, I was recently lucky enough to be offered private coaching with GB swim coach Ben Titley at Speedo HQ. Speedo UK's inner sanctum is tucked away in a quiet London suburb, and comes complete with swimming facilities we can only dream of at TW Towers....
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TW Relay Team: Dominique's Bike Blog #3
By Dominique Brady on 24/06/2011 17:27:10
Triathletesworld.co.uk Editorial Assistant Dominique Brady goes for a check up
In the last week or two, one question has dogged me: to cycle, or not to cycle?Before this new challenge, I thought of myself as a runner. I qualify this statement as I'm neither a club runner nor a speed demon and the PBs that I'm proud of would some most of our faster forumites...
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Alice's Cyprus International 4-day Challenge blog: Arrival
By Alice Palmer on 24/11/2011 14:30:59
Runnersworld.co.uk Editor Alice Palmer heads to Cyprus for some winter sun - with a seriously tough stage race thrown in.
Hello! Welcome to my Cyprus International 4-day Challenge blog. The Challenge is a stage race held in the Akamas peninsula of Cyprus, taking in four very different races - and I'll be blogging throughout.My runningI've been running for about four
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MdS Training Blog: Four Weeks of Training Left – and Counting
By James Fricker on 09/03/2012 10:00:00
There’s only a month to go before the race – but will Team RW's Marathon des Sables challenger be ready in time?
After a tricky last couple of weeks, battling a few niggles and sitting on my arse, I’m back running. Following on from the Endurancelife Coastal Trail Series in Devon, I had a low-key week as planned with a few short runs and a longer run at the weekend.I started the day of my l...
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Alison's Marathon des Sables blog: Who, What, Where!
By Alison Hamlett on 01/04/2011 16:10:44
Intrepid Editor of Triathlete's World Alison heads to Morocco to take on the toughest footrace on earth - the 2011 Marathon des Sables
On Sunday 3rd April, the 26th Marathon des Sables gets underway somewhere in the Sahara in southern Morocco. Around 1000 runners will be setting off t run 150 miles in six stages at what's often billed the toughest footrace on earth. I'll be one of them.My running historyLike man...
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