Before I bore you all to death rambling on about my training and how that the grass is always greener on the other side I need to tell you about these sweet podcasts for any hard turbo session, actually any session where your just spending time in the pain cave these are what you need. Two of my favorite ones are: Best of 2012 (features bits of commentary from the classics and big tours) https://soundcloud.com/velobeats/velobeats-best-of-2012 Oh Trap (if Bradley Wiggins…

A day at the park

On Tuesday I thought I would do something a bit different and video one of my training sessions. It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time but haven’t had the chance to it. Luckily though being back in Lowestoft I was able to rope my Dad into filming it and this is our effort. Joe Skipper Training Run Reps February 2013   Some pictures from the Day: Food of Champions, Porridge and Clif Stuff, it’s like rocket…

February 2013

Since my last blog post I completed 3 weeks of training which was pretty hard. Every 3-4 weeks since November I’ve been building on the previous block with more intense sessions and a bit more volume. After this recent 3 weeks I had an easy week which finished off with the Almeria Half Marathon.   During the easy week I did a 400 Meter swim time trial which I completed in 4.56, it’s a 2 second pb which I was…

Happy New Year!

It really has been a long while since I updated this blog, looking back it was the end of November since my last update. At the end of November I had just finished a block of training so I took an easy week and did some swim testing over 100m, 400m and 15 minutes to get some data to use to work out what paces I should be hitting when doing certain intervals in the pool. I managed to swim…