I've started training for my second 70.3, which will be in Singapore. Given that the training for the first one is still a recent memory, I just assumed that the process and more importantly the pain and tiredness would be about the same.

A week into the process, I have been pleasantly surprised. Don't get me wrong, it is still tough but the ( Read more... )

I now have two bikes. A road bike and a tri bike. The latter I bought just before Christmas.

A tri bike is similar to a time trial bike that you see in the sprint stages of cycling races. The difference is that tri bikes are usually not UCI compliant. These bikes are best suited for flat courses. The theory is also that these bikes are very ( Read more... )

I just got back from Phuket. I managed to do the LPT in the end. Turns out, all that I needed was almost one week of complete rest for the legs to get back to normal. I was secretly hoping to do 4 hours but missed that by about 10 minutes. I think it was due to the one week of no-training plus it was incredibly hot this year (it rained last year). ( Read more... )

I have one last race to end the season - the Laguna Phuket triathlon (LPT). It's not my "target" race (that was the Taiwan70.3) but I still want to improve on my time from last year. I thought that was a pretty realistic aim given that I've been training pretty consistently this year...

Right now, I'm not even sure if I will be at the start line! ( Read more... )

The Taiwan 70.3 took place last Saturday. There were over a 1000 competitors, a mix of international and local participants. Apparently, it was the largest international sporting event in Taiwan ever.

I'm happy to report that I finished the race and was quite happy with my performance. All the hard work over the last three months definitely paid ( Read more... )

There are two big triathlon races in Hong Kong every year, the Festival of Sports triathlon in May at Plover Cove and the Hong Kong ITU at disneyland at in October. This year the Hong Kong triathlon association couldn't get the requisite two days worth of road closures for the ITU pros to race so there wasn't an ITU race. In the end the Hong Kong ( Read more... )

A "century ride" to an American cyclist is a 100 miles of cycling. To me, it's a 100 km of cycling.

So we've been steadily building up our mileage over the past few months in preparation for the Taiwan 70.3. The bike leg for a half ironman is 90 km. Unlike running, where you don't have to run the full race distance in preparation, for cycling, you ( Read more... )

Summer in Hk is also known as "typhoon" season. If a typhoon is blustery and rainy enough, we might get some time off work. This happens when the T8 gets raised. Unsurprisingly, we are always tracking a typhoon with much anticipation in Hk!

This year's summer has been abit odd. It's been hot but not as humid as usual. The temperature of the sea ( Read more... )

We've been training for the Taiwan 70.3 for about 9 weeks now. It's now the norm to have at least two double training weekdays and to only have one rest day a week. On Saturday mornings we haul ourselves to Tung Chung for our weekly long ride and go for brick at Shek O on Sunday mornings. In short, we've been doing a hell of alot of training!

I ( Read more... )

My coach has designated Saturday as our long training day. By "our" I'm referring to the housemate, a tri clubmate and I and by "long training" I mean that we do a long ride, followed by a run. We started the ride distance at 70 km, which was to be followed by a 30 minute run, and both distance and running time have been increased gradually. To ( Read more... )