Author: Buck

That’s about all that’s going on right now. Luke was dying with a beastly cold that laid him up for weeks. He was bored of being ill at home so came around and gave it to Wendy and me. Which is nice. Wendy’s been off work for nearly two weeks with it. She’s gone back…

I did that 20 mile run last weekend. That was quite good. In the teeth of the gales that were battering us I went out and tried to run 20 miles at a good pace. I wanted 7.30, but the wind was atrocious, so I settled for keeping it under 8 m/m. So that was…

I know. I know. My week has been a nightmare for my training and just in general.  Sunday was an 11 hour shift, I weakened and called it a rest day. Didn’t train. Monday I had nightmare. Supposed to be a 7 hour shift, at the last minute they changed my second drop to Didcot,…

Sufferfest’s mental toughness programme says you need to set quantifiable weekly and monthly goals. Then review how your training went that week so you can reward yourself for success and try to learn from failure. So here goes. I split my goals down into the disciplines. Swim: (For the week: ) Arrange 3+ swims per…

Sufferfest say I should concentrate solely on my goal, so sorry if there’s anyone reading this, it’s all going to be tri. Except to say I rebuilt my VFR750 motorbike fairing (again) with a new subframe and the cannibalised best of two sets of clocks and all it all went back together properly this time.…