After four years of doing this sport, I've learnt a few things about planning my season:

1. It is not possible to train and race all year long. The body and mind needs a break and your wallet will thank you.

2. Work is unpredictable, hence best to plan a short intense season.

3. Four months is the maximum period of time that I need to train for a ( Read more... )

So many posts unwritten or in draft form and here we are in the new year. I don't think I'm ever going to catch up with my backlog so I'm just going to do a brief summary of each month of 2012.

January

The flatmate went away for a work attachment. I took the opportunity to turn the flat into a training den. You see, I had stupidly signed up for the ( Read more... )

I've been quite remiss with this blog. Things have been happening and maybe surprisingly not abt triathlon and triathlon training (for once). I intend to blog about these things but for now just a quick one on my winter plan.

Every winter, I get excited about going hiking but I never really get around to it. It's too cold, it's too far, training ( Read more... )

I'm a week out from my first proper cycling trip in Italy with the flatmate. It's an exciting and terrifying thought at the same time.

Exciting because this is why I started riding in the first place! I wanted to see the world on a bicycle. I thought and still do think it is a great way to get around. So much more environmentally friendly and ( Read more... )

I just took part in the Busselton 70.3 or Busselton half today. When I told people that I was going to do this race, everyone who has raced in this area told me that it was a fast course and I would probably get a PB (personal best) here. After all, the bike and run course is flat as a pancake and as it is autumn now here in Oz, it would be low ( Read more... )

Since I've started living in Hk, I've been particularly prone to falling ill during winter. Sore throats and the flu are the norm and once I start falling sick, I never really recovered till it got warm again. This winter past though has been an exception. Somehow, I managed to not fall ill at all during winter! Given my past record, it's quite a ( Read more... )

The Singapore70.3 took place almost 3 weeks ago. All things considered, I had a decent race. My race post is locked for various reasons and this post is clearly about what's been happening since the Singapore70.3.

One of the biggest issues I had about the Taiwan70.3 was recovery. I didn't recover well from that race and even now I still feel the ( Read more... )

I'm now one week out from the Singapore70.3 and I have to say that I don't really know what to expect about this race.

The main reason is because the prep for this race has been so different from the Taiwan70.3. This has been due to the unseasonably cold weather that we are experiencing in Hk. Usually by the time March comes around, the temperature ( Read more... )

I think I blogged in January about the start of my prep for the Singapore 70.3. Turns out I was wrong. It was a false beginning. From my coach's view point, my prep only begun last Sunday. As the Singapore 70.3 was only seven weeks away when he gave me my program, unsurprisingly, it is pretty intense!

For starters, there are quite a lot of double- ( Read more... )

Actually, I ride on Lantau island quite regularly. When preparing for the Taiwan 70.3, I spent many a Saturday spinning up and down the roads around Disneyland in Tung Chung. These roads are mainly flat. On the day after the new year, I got the chance to ride on the other side of Lantau, which are starkly different from Tung Chung as its all ( Read more... )