VLM Training Week 3

VLM Training Week 3

Most of my training is heart rate based which means I should aim to stay under a particular heart rate. I love this type of training because it’s effective and really easy to measure your progress. This week I discovered a bit of a flaw in it though. A lot of...

The training spreadsheet, part 3

Ok, so you’ve got to grips with setting up your chart in ‘The training spreadsheet, part 1‘ and you know how to set up your plan. You’ve understood the absolute greatness of pivot reports in ‘The training spreadsheet,...

Training spreadsheet, part 2

So you’ve read the primer post here ‘The training spreadsheet, part 1‘ and now your ready for some fun stuff, plugging real life data in and doing some fun charts and tables. Yeah fun with spreadsheets, that is what I’m talking about. Just as a...

Training spreadsheet, part 1

Training spreadsheet This post is going to tell you all about setting up the ideal training spreadsheet and why you need one. Before I begin, let’s get a couple of things out of the way: I like training I like spreadsheets I like graphs I may well have shown...
VLM Week 2

VLM Week 2

Training is pretty easy isn’t it, all you have to do is following the plan, right? It’s not like it’s particularly difficult getting out and doing a run is it. Not when you love running running and riding your bike, and when you kind of secretly...
VLM Week 1

VLM Week 1

Feels weird writing a week 1 post again. I thought I’d just use this blog for the Ironman and be done with it, but there is something, maybe it’s something about me, that makes me want to write down what I’ve done. I hope this isn’t showing...