The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves

Today saw April take on her second triathlon.  She was somewhat nervous going into it, so was I on her behalf - it's almost worse than doing it yourself!  She hasn't had much time for training as we seem to have been very busy and then her bike spent most of the last week at the repair shop after she fell off it on Monday and managed to snap the brake lever off it - not good (she didn't half cry!).  Anyway, this was a good race for us in many ways as it was local and organised by people that April knows, a lot of the kids that she knows from the tri club were taking part alth

Back to Transition

Hard Going

Run to Transition

This event was a race with a bit of a difference as it was a joint effort between the junior and senior members of the tri club.  The idea was mainly to have some fun and to bring everybody together in a social setting.  The race comprised of the short course duathlon, minus the second run and was called the Junior Senior Relay.  The idea was that children would be paired with their adult counterparts, the children would complete a run and then the adults would complete the cycle section.  April and I went intending to race as team Pendery, Daniel and Ryan came along too

This summer series event wasn't one that was actually organised by the tri club.  We were encouraged to take part in the weekly time trial run by the Calder Clarion cycling club.  This involved a 10 mile cycle ride with everybody being set off to complete it at 1 minute intervals.  I'd never done anything like this before and was quite apprehensive about what it would be like.  On the other hand I thought some more race pace riding would do me some good.  It took me a while to find the place on Heath Common, mainly because I don't know the area very well, then sudde

I was not an enthusiastic person this morning.  I got up to a grey, dull and uninspiring morning.  More than that though, faced with my first open water outing of the year I could have quite cheerfully backed out and decided to stay snuggled up in the house with my book.  Admittedly the look of the weather didn't help to persuade me to go, but I think it was mainly about being nervous about doing something that I haven't done since last August.  I felt rather sick and not at all keen to get out there.  However, in the end I am very glad that I didn't give in to thos

Tonight saw the third in the Wakefield Triathlon Club's Summer Series of races.  I missed the second one when I wimped out because the weather was atrocious.  If I'm honest, that could have easily happened again today, but now I've done it I'm very glad that it didn't.  I was sitting at Ryan's martial arts class watching the rain pour down and wondering what on earth I'd let myself in for.  However, there could be no wimping out this time - Daniel was working away and wouldn't be back until late, so I'd arranged for a friend to babysit.  I couldn't excatly say I cou

Looking out of the window as I come to write about this morning's exertions it seems to hard to credit either the title of this article, or the weather in which we raced.  Summer it is not, it is currently snowing.  Thankfully rather more pleasant conditions awaited me when I arrived at Pugneys Lake this morning.  I was really nervous about going as I didn't take part in any of the club's summer series last year, I was pretty much certain I'd be last and I wasn't entirely clear on the route for the cycle course - apart from that I was fine!

I entered this race for a bit of pre-Christmas fun, although I was too much of a spoil sport to go for the fancy dress option.  I don't suppose that wearing a red tri-suit really counts.  This race was a small event, 9 participants in the end, organised by Wakefield Triathlon Club to take it's members energetically into Christmas.  Something like that anyway.  As I've been slowly getting to know people at the club I thought this would be a good opportunity to take part in something.

Christmas Splash and Dash

Christmas Splash and Dash

Christmas Splash and Dash