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Pirate Mentors / Mentorees 2011
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make sure you can afford to do the fecking thing in the 1st place!! work out what you think it will cost and then double the budget
brakedown for this year
Bike £250 secondhand I got lucky
Outlaw £180?
Other races did to train up £250 at a guess? A few sprints, olly and a half Iron.
bike pimp parts £300 some second hand, Got helps from mates Becky/Mozzy/Baz/Haile off here and a understand bike shop owner.
Service stuff for bike £60
Train fares £200
Extra food feck knows I eat a lot noramlly
Hotels £100
Wetsuit £50 second hand
Pirate kit £100
Bike shoe's £80
OH sub's £50
Swimming pool memebership for a year £280
Smokeing a fag at the priate feed station while beating a few tri-talker's going round priceless.
This is off top of my head and I did it on the cheap. It's expense and if you don't know what you are doing don't be afraid to ask
10'
I like the gordo approach of a basic week you can do 40 weeks out of 50, ie consistency, with the aim of just getting fitter......
then come base period time increase the long sessions up to target....
then come build, add more muscular endurance, or just keep doing the long stuff if endurance is still the limiter
It keeps things simple...... That appeals to me as its all I can handle.
meso-cycles sounds like a japenese bike soup
There's a massive amount of information in the years of previous threads on here. To get around the fact the search function is so crap, go to Google and type your keywords and then site:runnersworld.co.uk you'll get everything you want, and more.
Homework crib sheet
MixedUpSoCycle
I am going to do a mixed peppers starter!
"something every day, day after day" suits me
BTW, this has been bugging me for days...........meface - is your forum name especially designed for putting on your VLM singlet/T-shirt ?...so the crowd all shout "come on..........". I've toyed with getting that printed a few times, it would amuse me for most of the 26.2.
Background info for TR
Don't blame me - blame them.
I considered letting them all choose a mentor for me as well - but had second thoughts
Do you have any opinions of your own?!? Or do you have to let other people make all your decisions?
I make bucket loads of decisions at work - too many for too many people.
So in my own time I sometimes prefer to let other people have a go. It has sometimes ended up with doing things I wouldn't normally do - which is great.
I try never to make my mind up for lunch. I'll nearly always take the special. If in a sandwich shop I let the sandwich maker choose. Today I got Roast Beef, horseradish, tomato, blackpepper and something else I can't remember. It was really nice: I wouldn't have picked it myself. My view is they are the professional sandwich maker and make hundreds a week, what the feck do I know about sandwiches.
Go with flow and take whats on offer - widen your horizons - accept and embrace what happens.
meface
Even though I'm new around here, it just me that thinks 'the pirate way' expression sounds just wrong at times unless it's something like this:
(First quote the archive came up with from 2007)*waits by letterbox for Haribo to pour through*
Meface, I love the line "...what the feck do I know about sandwiches". Brilliant!
Note to self - start checking the bottom of the box, Doh
And I agree with Smithy re 2005 Swim, bike and the whole darn thing cut offs were chased.
Surely riders of green bikes don't count*?
* especially with downtube shifter.