This was my heaviest week of training so far. Fifteen and a half hours training. Doesn’t sound much on paper, but five hours of it was trail running in the rainforest at the Bunya Mountains. The Bunyas are about three hours west of Brisbane and are about the highest point west of here.
I rarely ever run two days in a row. Maybe two or three times a year. Over the weekend we ran a running camp at The Bunyas. The last time we planned this sort of camp, I was …

A couple of months ago I got a Power Tap wheel from Pedals Plus. I felt the best way for me to optimise my training and to be able to test squad members occasionally was to have a power measuring device which could be swapped from bike to bike.
I have trained with a power measuring device for several years. This has been in the form of a Cateye mag trainer. This has been great to keep a record of my training progress and I have been able to put athletes …

It’s now two weeks since the Gold Coast marathon and the energy seems to be coming back to my legs. I’ve put the experience of being beaten by my wife in the 100km time trial in the log. It’s just one of those things that had to happen.
Every season I have to make the same mistake at least once where I don’t prepare well enough for a workout and run out of fuel. Once I make the mistake, I re-learn the lesson and I’m right for the rest of the …

I have spent the first half of this week getting over the sore legs from the Gold Coast marathon last Sunday. I have been a bit flat.
I’ve managed to get in three one hour swims. I really like to keep the consistency going in the swim. Each swim made my legs feel better, but the times were still showing the effects of the marathon.
I’ve started building my bike hours. This week I’ve squeezed in nine hours of cycling. Culminating with a 100km time trial yesterday. This is the first of …

I’m walking like an old man today. I ran the Gold Coast Marathon yesterday. It’s amazing how my dogs adjusted their pace within the first five minutes of their morning walk. They normally run down steps or run up them. I naturally pick up the pace with them. This morning the first set of five steps I held them back and went down sideways, the next set of up steps, they looked back at me and walked up slowly. Another part of our walk there’s a downhill ramp, I held them …