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Found a localish club but have yet to hear back from them about bringing my 15 year old son for the Sunday adult rides (this is also supposed to be about father/son bonding and getting him to feel comfortable around other people given he is autistic)
Fair play for doing Wales and voluntarily doing that swim in Tenby! Fuck that for a game of soldiers! Got any more IM lined up?
Quintana Roo PR6Disc and I'm pacing the floor waiting for it.
I don't plan on doing any more (not sure my body can take it - despite building a good run base over the winter, I now cannot run more than 5 miles a week as the recover on the pain in my leg is 3-4 days, so the mara leg will be interesting. At least it's flat )...BUT if I did get the bug to do another I'd probably settle for Outlaw as Copenhagen has cost me over £2k currently and I've not even got there yet
Heard great things about Vichy. Assume you're doing Lanza 70.3 as a practice for the full in 2021?
Good luck at LCW, got some friends doing it and don't envy you one little bit!
Pics when the bike arrives please!
The training for a full is not easy to squeeze in and I'm no spring chicken.
I've got an 18 month old and have just moved house. Couple that with my knee problem and my training has gone to shit the last 4-6 weeks Save for my B race at the Cotswold 113 a few weeks ago.
But I'm not deferring, simply due to the commitment I've already made to training and booking everything else (I'm doing it with two other guys and we have a party of about 10 supporters coming with us!), so I'll have to make it round one way or another.
IF I can give myself 6-7 hours for the run, I should be able to run-walk the marathon and still finish inside the cut off. Next 8 weeks training is going to be horrible.
Lanza is horrible all round I think but one for the die hards to say they've done it if they've conquered everything else. But I don't fancy all those hills, all that wind and all that heat. Just doing the distance is hard enough.
Signed up for the Conquest of Avalon at the end of August too (50 miles) so I guess that's the rest of my 2019 training down the pan.
If you can make the bike cut-off you can always walk-run a marathon. It's not pretty but plenty just scrape in at the end.
It's more annoying and disappointing than anything, as I'd really put a lot of time and effort into my running and had made massive improvements over the last 4 or 5 months and really, REALLY enjoyed it.
the swim I like and I can give or take the cycle due to back pain issues, but Copenhagen is pan flat so can saunter along at 16mph average and still make the cut off relatively comfortably as long as the swim goes according to plan. I'd like to do it as much justice as I can, but am playing the hand I've been dealt and will see what the next two months bring.
Ultra marathons are really something I can't get my head around, but then I said this about Ironman distance events too....soo....
So Bluetooth headphones to hear navigation or rely on phone speaker so you can hear traffic around you?
I was going about 150 miles a week, then my cycling buddy who I did a lot of fairly long (70-80 mile) weekend cycles with got diagnosed with a brain tumor and died about 8 months afterwards. To be honest although I did a lot of solo cycling, I lost a lot of interest/motivation after that and hadn't been on the bike since he died, which is about 13 months ago now.
As well as that, most of last summer was spent landscaping the back garden, which meant even if I'd had the motivation I'd have had very little time.
With the pounds piling on again, and needing the de-stressing that cycling provided, I've bought myself a turbo trainer and a Zwift subscription for my birthday.
Really enjoying it again, although it's starting from scratch as far as fitness goes.
Zwift is great as I can get some fitness back in a structured way without looking like a pudgy guy in Lycra until I get some of the pounds off again, and it means I can get a good workout in when the weather is horrible and if I've only 30 minutes or an hour to spare.
Once I get back in reasonable shape (fitness and size) I'll be able to get out and simply enjoy exploring the local countryside again, and may even join a club.
Nice one - less of the negativity though. I'm fat as fook, and am negative because right now I'm doing nothing about it. You're taking a huge positive step - be proud!
I'll be starting up cycling again once I've moved house. Bike is in pieces at the moment
If you are planning on road biking, I recommend watching some of the head cam footage on youtube. It is a good education on hazard perception and anticipation. Learn from others as it can be sore to discover some things for yourself!