What a difference a year makes Finally over the finishing line in Marbella at IM703WC 2025 I’ve finally accepted that I’m one of life’s ‘tri-harders’, the sort of person who gives 110 per cent and still somehow manages to trip over my own enthusiasm and face-plant with a mighty splat. (I‘ve been literally doing thisContinueContinue reading “Ironman 70.3 World Championship – top Brit in age group”
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The new season starts and it’s time to turn off the tears
This time last year, I was nursing bad tears to my adductors, glutes, quads and some others whose names escape me. I limped round Crystal Palace sprint triathlon in 1:35:22, made the semi-final but no further in the Zwift Tri Academy due to the injuries caused by overtraining, and began to wonder if I wasContinueContinue reading “The new season starts and it’s time to turn off the tears”
When not winning is winning
In my last post, about trying to qualify for the Triathlon World Championships in Malaga next October at the WTCS event in Sunderland, I wrote about how what can feel like a really good performance can sometimes just not be good enough. So I decided to have another go at making it into the Worlds,ContinueContinue reading “When not winning is winning”
Sunk by the swim at Sunderland
One of my secret – well not-so-secret now I’m confessing it here — addictions is sci-fi and fantasy fiction. And among the best of the fantasy series I’ve discovered recently has been Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London, about a detective, Peter Grant, who solves magical crimes in a world where the river deities manifest asContinueContinue reading “Sunk by the swim at Sunderland”
Bourne to tri
At the end of Eastbourne standard distance triathlon, my first Olympic distance and my third triathlon, I wanted to get up, jump back into this inviting English Channel segment of the Atlantic Ocean and do it all again. My first triathlon in 1988 was a sprint, starting in a heated pool at Hampton Court, whenContinueContinue reading “Bourne to tri”
Getting on a bit
There are perfectly decent ways to get across the enormous expanse of London and out into the countryside without crocking yourself so seriously you can’t get out of bed for three days. When I finally, sheepishly admitted to my boss that the reason I could barely function at work and simply needed to sleep someContinueContinue reading “Getting on a bit”
Putting the ‘error’ into tri and error
The lesson has been hard and I hope I have properly learned it. Although not yet completely recovered, I’m able to run again and was able to do the Crystal Palace sprint tri, albeit a bit slowly on the run. My mistake was over-training, mainly by thinking I could go it alone because of theContinueContinue reading “Putting the ‘error’ into tri and error”
The importance of recovery
Ruth is doing Ride London in May, raising funds for Brentford Football Club Community Sports Trust. Donate here. Back in 1987, when I was just 27, I ran the London Marathon in a time of around 3:38. Then the next day, feeling absolutely so energised and on top of the world, I played a hardContinueContinue reading “The importance of recovery”
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