Kevins Training Diary 2026

This fortnight started with a week of holiday in Aviemore to prep and recce for the British Cross Tri Champs. The prep week and the recces went fine. I even managed to get in the water a couple of times. I didn't manage to do any useful swimming but I did at least get some time being cold enough to get used to it.  My actual race was a disaster, which started with me getting vaseline on my goggles so I couldn't see where I was going and had to take them off and breast-stroke. And finished with me walking round most of the run. The bike wasn't a total disaster, but it was slow as I was wading through traffic from being so far out of position after the swim.  It also turned out that I had a cold of some sort which I honestly didnt notice during the race, but was evident before we even managed to drive home in the afternoon.  We did have a good week away though. So at least that was worth it.  Then it was back to work for a week with the cold and a messed up week of tra...

With all of my late posts, I have completely lost track of the weeks. Google tells me that Weeks 35 & 36 were 24/08 - 06/09. So I am over a week late again.  That window basically took me through a two-week run in to the Scottish Standard Triathlon Champs. Knowing how little I have ridden my TT bike in the last few years I purposefully took it outside for a ride, and then set it up on the turbo trainer for a week to try and get some feel for the position. I think this helped a bit, but not enough to make me competent at riding it in a race.  I raced the last of the Krunce hill race series, and after some jiggery-pokery from the officials to account for me changing age-groups mid series, I was awarded second place in the 40-49 category, despite being 50 for half the series.  As per my previous post, I didn't really want to race the Scottish Standard at Knockburn, but I had paid my entry fee so I went along to take part. My swim was poor, but given the cold water and my...