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Ironman 70.3 World Championships, Vegas, 8 Sep 2013
Having qualified for Vegas to great excitement a full year earlier, by the time the race rolled round it had become an almost unwelcome distraction from preparing for Kona. I was exhausted after a...
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Kona baby! Part 1: How not to prepare for World Championships
Having qualified against all odds at IMUK, I didn’t have long to pick myself back up before Kona. As well as a perfectly-timed and remarkably persistent chest infection, I’d had a niggling stress...
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Kona Part 2: a humbling day out
Despite the gaps in my preparation, I was still reasonably confident that I could pull off a respectable race. I’d trained hard all year and I’d won my age group by more than 15 minutes to qualify, so...
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Christmas in Paradise…
After starting my 2014 campaign with a couple of months of back-to-back turbo sessions and comedy running outfits… …I welcomed the opportunity to leave the UK for a couple of weeks and practise some...
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Not a race report
I’d always planned to write up my first race of 2014, with Wokingham Half being an early introduction to my season designed to remind me of pre-race nerves and hopefully post a good time to prove to...
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Ironman South Africa, 6 April 2014
The coach of my first Henley-winning rowing crew said to us during the lead-up to the race, “You have to be good enough that you can have a bad day on race day and still win.” For me that thought sums...
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Monster Mojo 2014
“Lost your mojo?! Come find it again with us!” the event website promised. Exactly what the doctor ordered – stinging from a disappointing first race of the season at IM South Africa, I’d stumbled...
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Don’t get me wet and don’t feed me after midnight
A couple of weeks ago I followed a routine I’m coming to know rather well: roll out of bed hideously early; follow a carefully prepared list of instructions, including a detailed nutrition plan and...
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Out of the ashes
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted. Rehab didn’t go as smoothly as planned, with pain continuing in my right hip for weeks after the operation, and for reasons best known to itself, my brain...
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The Egg Unboxed
Lots of training; Easter weekend, FrEd-style; and the most ridiculously awesome Easter egg ever Part 1: the obligatory but hopefully at least mildly amusing training-related bit It’s now almost three...
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Amsterdamse Blog
So technically this is supposed to be about triathlon, but my 2015 season can best be summed up as: raced some half iron distance races; did extraordinarily well for someone who had just spent a year...
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Where next?
So – having finished Challenge Denmark iron distance in June – I can finally say I am officially back to doing what I love! Of course, the next aim is to do it faster… After Denmark I had a whole FOUR...
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Challenge Fredericia race report, August 2016
Having not really dared to plan anything based on what my body might still be able to do After The Ironman, I was slightly bewildered to find myself still in one piece at the end of June, back training...
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Ironman 70.3 Dublin race report, August 2016
I entered this race because all my friends seemed to be doing it…. which seems like a bad reason at first glance, but over the years I have learnt that racing needs to be fun as well as hard! I’d also...
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Don’t mess with Texas, round 6
Texas 5, Frankie 1, and an exciting day for women’s racing I’m not sure what it is about racing in Texas. After two terrible days out racing the Ironman in the Woodlands, two simply “meh” races at the...
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A Most Bothersome and Preventable Tragedy
Two bone breaks, both caused by stupidity (A Spanish island’s where we lay our scene) This training breaks down under scrutiny I’m so far now from where I could have been. From forth the awful year of...
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