Hi All,
As you may already know, I am taking part in the London triathlon this year for MacMillan cancer support.
The triathlon takes place on 8th August and is the Olympic distance, this consists of a 1 mile swim, 42km bike ride and a 10k run. I will be aiming to beat the time I got back in 2006 of 2hrs 49mins.
MacMillans cancer support is a charity that I hold dear to my heart, they do such a good job looking after families and people who are affected by all types of cancer, more information on them can be found here: http://www.macmillan.org.uk/AboutUs/AboutUsHome.aspx
If you would like to sponsor me and donate money to a very worthy charity please let me know and I can give you my sponsorship form.
Alternatively, for those of you who don’t do paper and ink sponsor ship or live to far away, I’ve set-up an online sponsor form through Virgin, they do not charge as much commission as JustGiving.com, they only take 2% of the gift aid retrieved from donation so the charity gets the full donation + remaining gift aid :), this can be found here:
http://www.virginmoneygiving.com/RyanMoynan
My aim is to raise a much money as possible, I’d like to raise at least £600.
I’m not terribly good at fundraising so if any of you have any ideas to help me hit my target I would be grateful to hear them :
Many thanks :D :D
Friday 26 March 2010
Training preperation
I've decided to set-up a Blog to log my progress training for the London 2010 triathlon.
Through the following months I will be updating this Blog on a daily / weekly basis logging my training progression.
With 5 months to go before the triathlon my current fitness levels are reasonably good. I owe this to my regular football matches and training.
Although, recently I received a nasty knee injury from a 6-aside football match, only a flesh wound, but it has hindered my training this week.
This is a concern as I can't afford to receive any serious injuries, I will have to be careful over the next couple of months until the football season ends
Things that I need to work on primarily are swimming and cycling. These tend to be the most common weak points for most amateur tri-athletes.
I'm currently receiving swim coaching from a trained triathlon coach. I never received swim coaching for my previous two triathlons so this is a first. With only having one lesson so far I've already improved drastically and wish I'd taken the initiative to have coaching before.
I have another swim lesson next Wednesday, I'll make my next post then updating you on what I've done.
Through the following months I will be updating this Blog on a daily / weekly basis logging my training progression.
With 5 months to go before the triathlon my current fitness levels are reasonably good. I owe this to my regular football matches and training.
Although, recently I received a nasty knee injury from a 6-aside football match, only a flesh wound, but it has hindered my training this week.
This is a concern as I can't afford to receive any serious injuries, I will have to be careful over the next couple of months until the football season ends
Things that I need to work on primarily are swimming and cycling. These tend to be the most common weak points for most amateur tri-athletes.
I'm currently receiving swim coaching from a trained triathlon coach. I never received swim coaching for my previous two triathlons so this is a first. With only having one lesson so far I've already improved drastically and wish I'd taken the initiative to have coaching before.
I have another swim lesson next Wednesday, I'll make my next post then updating you on what I've done.
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