Triaspirational

Goodness, I have just had the most lovely swimming lesson: in fact it has been an extraordinarily decadent-feeling day, I have pretty much d...

It is not worth making myself irritable wrestling with the watch-to-computer interface, I cannot get the exact data onto the computer this m...

Because I am a literal-minded and determined person, but also have fairly scrupulous leanings, I am clarifying the nature of the 30 in 30 bi...

The holiday season is a trying thing for the aspirational triathlete! There are various kinds of uncertainty and pool closing issues that m...

It is sixty degrees and sunny--that's crazy...--and I just had a nice quiet run in Riverside Park. Everyone is very smiley because of t...

I had the most enjoyable workout this morning with M. at the gym--usually I am sort of insanely foaming at the mouth and wanting to work fie...

A good swim physiologically, so to speak (there must be some better way of saying that!), but it unfortunately awakened my inner grumbling s...

We got started kind of late, so it was much more technique stuff than main set, not really worth transcribing in detail even if I were menta...

Well, I really did go to sleep around 8:30, I was knackered, only the trouble is I woke up quite thoroughly at 3 and cannot go back to sleep...

Which is not exciting, but will be sensible & also fit in with the holiday and the fact that I have a strangely huge other set of things...

OK, good, I have done my last half-marathon for 2007 with a really satisfactory PR of 1:54:14 (mile pace 8:46) . It was an interesting and i...

Last little three-mile pre-race run this afternoon, a chilly dark overcast late-afternoon run with wet leaves on the ground and nobody about...

That is a lovely way to start the day--the way I feel when I get up at 5:15 is basically along the lines of Not quite as terrible as you mig...

Since I cannot have another workout today, I will indulge myself in a frivolous post... A few weeks ago at Monday-night swimming, I shared t...

A super-enjoyable session with M. this morning (mercifully rescheduled to 8 rather than 6:15, though I got up at 5:15 anyway to do a couple ...