Daz Does Tri

Week 1 back home. The start of summer. Mile road race is canned so aside from a vets lge 800m (which is just a glorified roll out) my next race is Battersea 5k on the 24th - 3 weeks away. Monday Arrived home at 5am and got out of bed 8.50am like a zombie. Chores to do so glad of a rest day. Few aches and pains but nothing a good night sleep won't fix. Tuesday Up feeling much better. Seriously aware of the addiction junk food has on me. More on that later. Planning stage today. Need to look at what I will do in this block. Viewing a new build that we hope to be moving to so no easy shakeout today it'll be straight into session tonight. Food needs improving so I am going to (try to) eat cleaner. I'll look at reducing my processed food, lay off the sugar snacks, lay off the booze and generally just eat better quality foods. I am feeling good about my training and fitness. Everything is trending in the right direction I just need to really nail a race feeling completely 100% an...

Photo Credit - Mick Hall Mid Cheshire Block ! Post Podium to Battersea it's now time to get the hard yards in for a sub 16 attempt. Plan for this week is to get 1 really good session in on Tuesday - ideally with the group. I'll try and get as many miles in as I can BUT I'll do everything steadier - as I am expecting to be away (depending on Anges mum) - for the end of the week in Tenerife. I'll unlikely get anything over 10 miles in but I'll see and I'll unlikely get a threshold session in - but I'll see. Mainly though the plan is top load the week Mon - Weds and then just do whatever I can! I'll also re-introduce weights this week as that's been sorely missing. Edit - Anges mum passed away on the day of the Tenerife trip so I stayed back. Monday 27th April New week new me. I am off to Lower Mill today, off to Tenerife for a boys holiday on Thursday. This week is all about doing what I can. I'll aim to get a VO2 session in but apart from that I w...

Back to basics! Back in to standard training and a build towards Battersea 5k next. Base work is done so the plan is more 5k / 3k work, up the miles to 60 per week and keep up the threshold stuff. Upping the miles now as I have hit the 16.30 target I set for that. Easy to add another 5 I just need to keep the recovery pace well north of 8s. *** NOTE I ended up getting a niggle for the first Battersea race and trained through to CTS Battersea a couple of weeks later. This blog is going to be a long 6 weeks from Podium to next race *** Monday 16th March 2026 Rest day. Starting the week from zero and letting the legs come good. Improve the diet from Saturday and keep up mobility / rehab. Tuesday Run 1 - 3 shakeout in the morning. Wake the legs up. 3 miles @ 9.04/mm nice and easy. This is the new shakeout route now weather is better and trails are holding up. Session - Eddington. 2.82 warm up, 1.51 cool down. Session was 3 x mile, 3 x 600 @ 8k and 1500 pace. All off 2 mins. The miles fe...