My Triathlon Journey

IRONMAN Barcelona 70.3 - 1.9km Swim, 90km Bike, 21.1km Run (1/2 IRONMAN) Here goes, 20 weeks of focused training, lifestyle changes and some sacrifices bring me to the start line of IRONMAN Barcelona 70.3 my first middle distance race. I'm not sure it means anything in the triathlon world but I will have now completed the "full house" one of every distance. On arriving in Calella with my bike, all my race kit and the support fan club I could finally start to relax. After the complications before IRONMAN Wales (Bike accident & injuries) & the pre flight stress of getting my TT bike up and running I could now say for the first time the only thing stopping me from achieving my goal would be my physical and mental fitness on the day of the race. Tapering had gone well and using the TSS (Stress) score from training peaks as a guide I could see that I had significantly reduced my training stress over the past 10 days which according to the numbers demonstrate...

Dom and I showing Ditching Beacon to Smithy and Mike The final 4 weeks of this 20 week block. I'm going to mix it up a bit from now on..... rather then break it down into swim/bike/run i'm going to just tell it how it was/is. I'm also not going to talk about my training in 4 week blocks.... i'm convinced that race reports and more detailed posts about particular sessions/weeks makes for better reading. Open to suggestions.... So over the last 4 weeks I gave myself the goal of two more weeks of hard work before starting to taper off to the event. The 1st week involved a stag party for a close friend of mine in Liverpool/Chester. Now I haven't been on a weekend long stag do before, but I assumed it's ok to take your bike and running shoes...? Morning after night 1, 12km easy run along the Liverpool Docks I managed to stay out late each night and drink very little, this enabled me to be up early while everyone was sleeping off hangovers (n...