After some time out with an injury after the Canberra Marathon in April I decided on the Gold Coast Half Ironman as my next goal. Knowing nothing about training properly for a triathlon and failing so badly in both the swim and the ride at Mooloolaba, I decided it would be wise to join a squad and get a program done by someone who knew what they were doing....
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I got injured running Canberra marathon in April and didn't run for 5 weeks so I figured that any chance I had had of running the Gold Coast marathon were effectively gone. I shifted my goals and looked instead at building up my running again without going back to my Mizunos. It was something I had been wanting to do for some time but with races all...
Whenever you crew for someone that does not finish you can't help but feel that it was in some way your fault. Maybe there was something you could have done to keep the runner out there. Who knows. Anth had had a bad patch after about 6hrs and had been ready to pull the pin then but I had kept him walking around the track figuring that if he kept moving...
After only one 5km run and one 30min swim since Canberra I am finally getting back into it, albeit slowly. On Sunday morning I went down to the waterfront for a flat 5km run and got through it slowly although it was a struggle towards the end. I have obviously lost a lot of fitness in the past month which I don't think I am going to be able to make up...
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