Author: Buck

  • Sufferfest.

    Another boring training entry. Well, boring for anyone else, exciting times for me. Sufferfest is proving to be a revelation. I thought it was going to be an app for peddling away on your turbo trainer without getting bored. Like watching a film or something. Zwift pretty much was. People were streaming past me, and…

  • Bit of a run.

    That chesty feeling and loads of swallowing I said about on my last blog? It was the onset of an awful, enervating bug. I kept my training up but it knocked spots off me. Wendy had it worse, she’s been off work for four days. Not a cough and cold thing, just a hideous weakness.…

  • Finally!

    Just a quick update on my tri training as my watch is not logging my achievements in a fit of techno-spite. I really think I’m on to a winner here. At last. The motorbiking into work, doing a run every day and separate bike/ run sessions is really working for me. I’m trying not to…

  • Catch up

    What’s been happening? Well, Wendy pranged the car around Manchester. I was taking her on a dry run to see if she could find her way on her own the next day (going to some church bash). She put way too much pressure on herself, she’d made the motorway bit into a big deal in…

  • January done.

    I’ve just about got back on the triathlon horse. I’ve completed the first month of my ‘run every day of 2019’ challenge. It’s not been easy as I have been nursing injuries. Happily I’m mostly over them. The tendons on the top of my foot keep flaring up, but nothing debilitating. The pains up my…