Another week of successful training and mostly successful nutrition, but still a long way to go…
I’ve added a blog entry about my recent Shanghai Ironman 70.3 race. A short summary is as follows:
Swam like a idiot, biked fast with quite a few cheaters, peed myself on the run, missed World Champs qualification by 2 positions. Good day all round!
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Oh man. Congrats. But you think a 70.3 is an all-out race? It’s something I always say about the sprint distance (and like about it). Having never gone longer than 70.3 (and having raced the middle distance just 3 times in my 25 triathlons), I find it really long and certainly not balls out from gun to tape. I’m not nearly as fast as you (up to 36 km/h and 4:48 run pace in a half), but I suspect the same can be said about our respective performances in shorter distances 
That’s a fair point @kajet! I suppose ‘balls out’ is relative in this case. I was looking at it from the point of view of an Ironman-distance race, where the early stages of the bike feel like an easy Sunday morning ride! It’s hard not to think of effort being the maximum I can sustain over the entire race distance rather than just hammering it these days.
For true balls out, I do enjoy a good short duathlon or 10k road race.
Living in Japan, a trip to the hot spring is always a good balls out option as well! 
I started writing a blog this week. It’s about how I picked up cycling in my late twenties (in Sweden) and ended up riding at elite level and living in Guatemala: https://suecoguatemalteco.blogspot.com/
I think it’s fun to write down memories and thoughts and it’s also a great way for me to practice and improve my English. Still struggling with feeling egocentric
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After racing for almost 10 years, only taking it marginally seriously for most of that time - I finally earned my first win this weekend!
I have restarted my TT training at 60+ blog - I have a new found enthusiasm after a bit of a break during summer last year
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A tiny bit off topic but just wondering:
for those who are documenting their journey, how many visitors/views do you get per post?
I think you document it mainly for yourself but I do wonder about the response/feedback/views you get from people outside of your social circle.
So if you have any stats on that, could you please share it with me?
I get between 300-500 page views a month. Granted since I haven’t done much in 2 years, it’s slowly declining.
Just updated my blog. I’ve been slacking on writing.
-Hugh
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I use slip-box to document my training. And I have tried to find someone who shares a similar mindset to share their ideas.
Following is a public repo I create for my cycling group in China. It’s mostly written in Chinese.
I plan to document my journey to UoT’s training this year but was kick-off due to some misunderstanding about the rule.
You can find more thoughts on the topic of cycling. And if you know what’s Zettelkästen then we can have more conversations along this journey.
I want to post a training blog to trainer road as i get ready for unbound, but dont know if that would be acceptable.
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Only in the workout notes.
I was thinking about doing a blog about my journey
Not that many for me but I am persevering. I do enjoy thinking of articles to write but it mostly focusses around my own training.
Happy to follow other blogs on here - I do follow a couple anyway and hopefully they will follow mine.
I have a technical blog (Oracle Database) and that was well read and it does encourage you to post more frequently.
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@occasionalathlete Just looked at your blog but couldn’t see anywhere to subscribe.
@fastk9dad Have you stopped blogging? Nothing since 2019
Not intentionally. My last posts were from our Disney trip, which was our last vacation before I took a new job and relocated 800miles away. I still have a couple of videos from that trip I need to produce but life gets in the way. The second half of 2019 was pretty hectic with starting a new job, buying/selling homes and moving. I did a little bit of cycling in my new surroundings but nothing blog worthy. Well except maybe that first time out, getting chased by a dog, up a climb, in the lane of traffic, but sadly I didn’t have the camera rolling.
2020 was going to be a big year, but we know how that turned out. I wrote about my 2020 year here: 2020 in Review: What did you discover about your cycling self? - #30 by fastk9dad. I may actually steal this post and rework it for the blog as I think it may be decent content.
But now we are going to be traveling for a vacation again and I’ll be renting a bike while away so I plan on filming. Plus I’m upgrading my bike to Di2 so will probably do a video on that. I’m trying to get back into it. Filming is easy, it’s the editing that takes me so long to do.
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Following
You should be able to subscribe via a feed reader like Feedly. You won’t get much at the moment, though, I’m afraid. It’s petty much fallen by the wayside - work really gets in the way of this stuff!