Being a final year student is time consuming but here's 4 sport related things I've been doing this week

The last couple of weeks have been busy but pretty uneventful in triathlon terms. So I've tried to sieve out the boring stuff to update you on what I've been doing. If anyone has anything to say about my training leave some comments here. I'm hoping a bit of feedback from the blog might be able to jump-start my training.

Cheap Gear

Don't get excited this is not a blog about cheap drugs! It's just a quick blog to let you know about a site I've found on tinternet. It's called Sport Pursuit and you may see some budget buys pieces coming soon about stuff I've got from them. It's a site that finds sales and puts them in one place (it's on the website how it actually works). I'm putting this up now because there's some tri stuff on there some of you might be interested in. This includes a Pearl Izumi trisuit that I've just invested in for £39. There's also a slightly more selfish reason for advertising this site. Everytime a new person clicks my link to join up then buys something I get £5 to my account. So click on the link, join up and get buying some bargains... https://www.sportpursuit.com

Lessons Learnt The Hard Way

This time last Sunday I was sprinting over the finish line of the Chester marathon (I genuinely managed to sprint!). A week on I'm sat in bed contemplating a bike ride. To procrastinate a little first I thought I'd write a quick blog about some thing I think could have been changed to improve my run. So if you ever run a marathon try not to make these mistakes:

Post Marathon Thoughts

It was good, it was great, it was painful, it was horrible, it was exciting, it was boring, it was inspiring, it made me question myself about almost everything and it nearly made me cry. I did it. Somehow I managed to drag myself round the Chester Marathon in 4 hours 12 minutes and 52 seconds. It might not be under 4 hours as I hoped but I did it! I managed to muster up the willpower to keep running through the pain and can now call myself a marathon runner. I'm not going to give you a step by step account of the race (It took over 4 hours that'd just be boring!) but here's a little post match analysis.

Pre Marathon Thoughts

It's the evening before the Chester Marathon. The night before my last triathlon I was nervous that I wasn't prepared, so after only 3 weeks of training to get round a 26.2 mile run here's what I'm thinking ahead of the big day.

Marathon Moronity

With half a week to go till the Chester marathon I'm not feeling confident at all. Training hasn't gone well and I haven't stuck to my plan. I'm realising just how stupid it was to think 3 weeks would be long enough to train.