When the winter Spine first appeared on my radar a few years ago, I knew that one day I would need to give it a crack. For various reasons, the idea of the summer race excited me much more than the winter one, mainly due to the timings and my love of long summer nights,…
My last full post came after the first Tri of the season at the Big East in Dengie. To say its been a pretty full-on season since then feels like a bit of an understatement. It feels as though there have been far too many stupid-o-clock Sunday morning alarms and too much finishing line pain. And I’ve…
Ever since I got into this endurance jive I have developed a bit of an obsession with the Ironman World Champs in Kona, Hawaii. I love the history, I love all the old coverage, I love the inspirational tear-jerker snippets (Rick & Dick Hoyt, The Blazeman etc), I love all the greats (Ironwar, obvs) and I love seeing how…
The 5th Anniversary of the Dengie Events staged Big East Tri was to be my 4th triathlon and my first of the season. I couldn’t wait to race – my swim times at BSV have been improving, I’ve been running okay and I was looking forward to properly testing out my new bike* so it was with…
As a fairly non-photogenic chap (I’m hot stuff in the flesh though like), it’s not often that a race photo turns up in which I don’t look pretty terrible. But I think this one from Hadleigh cross country the other week almost manages to make me look quite good! Almost. Thanks to Andrew at http://noynek.me/sport-photography/ for the pic.
So i’m in Manchester with work for the Tri show and I’m bang back into swimming so brought along the speedo’s in case there was a chance for a dip. Although knackered after the hefty drive and show set up, we have dinner and I think sod it I’ll go for it. I knew…
Essex has served up some of the muddiest cross country I’ve ever ran this January. In horse racing terms I think they would have called the going soft to dog shit. I absolutely love these races because while your running the thought process straddles a line somewhere between I wish I was dead and I love life. While my results in the Essex…
There are 100’s of ‘Top things of 2014’ lists around at this time of year, but none are as important as mine, so here’s a quick rundown of my top sporting moments of 2014 (in no particular order): Jan Frodeno at the Ironman World Champs The performances of Sebastian Kienle and Mirinda Carfrae were awesome, but it…
Following a few days off after the Chelmsford Marathon I decided it was time to start spending some time riding my bike again. I put in a fairly decent month of training in November and gradually started to build up the running miles and turbo sessions. I also started swimming again but only once a…
Chelmsford Marathon In my last blog I was still basking in my post-Outlaw lazyness and the Chelmsford Marathon was very much a distant thought. On the one hand, I had already entered and so didn’t want to miss out. But on the other, I simply didn’t have any motivation whatsoever to get out and train…
Thurs 7th August Well its now been 10 days since the race and I’ve just got back from a short run that I had no motivation whatsoever to do. In fact, since the race I’ve had no motivation to do anything at all except drink beer and eat chocolate. And that’s the way it should…
Right, lets get the massive excuse out the way first: I’ve been bloody busy swimming, cycling and running, ok? Good. May, June & July have passed in a blur of training, racing, eating, settling into a new job and generally being shattered. Outlaw is just 7 days away… Whats that you say MC Hammer? Breakitdown? Alrighty…
“They play so fine, don’t you agree?” – Coming To America gold. Those not familiar with the above film- take a long, hard look at yourself and question the very fabric of your existence. Anyway, April was another consistent block of training. Wednesday’s long run has edged up to 15 miles, I’ve taken my first…
And so it was that last Saturday I took my first dip in open water at the Tri20 Open Water Swim Centre. Superbly, I had the company of rising GB Junior & Sportstik endorsee (More on Sportstiks later…) Tom Lazenby for my first tentative splashes in the murky green water. Tom gave me some really great advice…
on Friday morning’s ride. Although a Bumble Bee looks like a little flying fluffy pillow, it actually hurt quite a lot. Nature 1 Payno 0
Team Payno Tri 