April 11th 2014

2014 race schedule

«Swim 2.4 miles! Bike 112 miles! Run 26.2 miles! Brag for the rest of your life...»


In 2013, my training efforts were based around a "70.3"-distance race. In my second year in triathlon I will be targetting my first Ironman-distance event.

After some deliberation I decided on the Ironman event in Klagenfurt, Austria (pictured) not only because the location lends a certain tone to the occasion but because the course is suited to my relative strengths within the three disciplines.

I've made the following conscious changes to my race scheduling and selection this year:

Readers may observe that despite my primary race finishing with a marathon-distance run, I am not racing a standalone marathon in preparation. This is common practice, justified by the run-specific training leading up to a marathon and the recovery period afterwards compromising training overall.

For similar reasons, I have also chosen not to race a "70.3" distance event in 2014. Whether to do so is a more contentious issue than whether to run a marathon, but it resolved itself once I could not find an event that was suitably scheduled and I could convince myself that most of the benefits could be achieved through other means.


April 13th

Cambridge Duathlon (link)

Run: 7.5km, bike: 40km, run: 7.5km

May 11th

St Neots Olympic Tri (link)

Swim: 1,500m, bike: 40km, run: 10km

May 17th

ECCA 50-mile cycling time trial (link)

50 miles. Course: E2/50C

June 1st

Icknield RC 100-mile cycling time trial (link)

100 miles. Course: F1/100

June 15th

Cambridge Triathlon (link)

Swim: 1,500m, bike: 40km, run: 10km

June 29th

Ironman Austria (link)

Swim 2.4km, bike: 190km, run: 42.2km




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