swimming

tri try may day winchester triathlon

Can I get a hill please?  Or rather, could I not get a hill please? Yeesh.  This was one seriously hilly triathlon.  You know the old phrase “what goes up must come down”?  Well, I think that this triathlon successfully disproved that particular theory.  The entire thing was one damn uphill! I signed up for this shortly after […]

wimbledon womble triathlon

Have you ever had a hug from a womble? If you do the Wimbledon Windmilers womble triathlon you could join the elite club who have!! When I’d been searching for novice triathlons, I’d had real trouble finding one in London.  Eventually i signed up for the A2C Andover triathlon, that being the one that seemed […]

tri try andover a2c super-sprint triathlon

I’m a triathlete! As y’all know i’d signed up to the virgin active london triathlon … before realising i couldn’t swim, didn’t have a bike and hated running,  huh. So i bought a bike, pootled off to the pool now and again over the winter, and made my friend let me come running with him […]

triathlon for dummies

so … I signed up for the Virgin London Triathlon. And then I realised what I’d done. And shat my pants. I can’t swim in the open water.  I haven’t got a road bike.  We all know what my running is like … ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH It’s okay though, I’ve purchased some essential reading, got a training plan, […]