robintherunner

Maximise Your Chances of Success: Reverse Engineer Your Goals

A few weeks ago my mum was talking to me about potentially getting a road bike and taking up cycling. This followed with her asking me various question about tr...

Baptism

I hope this is to of some encouragement to any fellow believers in Christ throughout the steemit community, and to anyone else Jesus is the way and the truth an...

Second Year

I am currently situated at the tail end of my second year studying Psychology at Aberystwyth University. A great deal has happened since my last post now over f...

The influence of background colour on the performance of word memory recall

Abstract This study investigates the relationship between colour and memory. This was investigated via the means of presenting a series of 10 words in two diffe...

Training Day: Thursday

So yet again the weather has been awful. Up bright and early ready to rock at 5:45 AM ready to head down to the pool at 7:00 AM. But when I got up, the wind was...

Coming to Faith

My story is a pretty standard one I would say in the “Christian circle”, I grew up attending church with my family and so have always had the knowledge of what ...

Training Day: Wednesday

Today the Lord saw it fit to test my patience... Woke up, usually thing sat on the edge of the bed and prayed for a minute or two, it's the best way. Necked my ...

Training Day: Tuesday

This week being an easy week means this Tuesday is an off/recovery day. No real training scheduled for today, so no massive banana smoothies and tubs of peanut ...

Training Day: Monday

So here we have a pretty average training day. I'm up around 5:45 AM, first thing I do is sit on the edge of my bed and pray, just to give thanks for the day, a...

2019 Race Calendar

Bonjour...!!! (No I am not French...I am always stumped when it comes to introductions on here.) 2019 is going to be a busiest year of racing so far. Over this ...

Back to University: Lessons a training block

At present I am just over three weeks into my September to December training block after starting my second year at Aberystwyth University in Wales. It has been...

Running: The Principles Of Training

At present I am writing on the tale end of my triathlon race season after one month off of unstructured active recovery. The latter part of this time as been sp...

IRONMAN Hamburg: Race Report

The 29th of July 2018 was the hardest day of my life so far. I managed to knock 5 hours off my previous ironman time from around 16 hours 7 minutes down to 11 h...

Burnt Out & Fighting The Good Fight

If you are a first time reader on my profile, I have been preparing past ten months for an Ironman triathlon in Hamburg and at present, I am a mere two weeks aw...

How to lose 2 to 3 KG of body fat in just ONE WEEK

First of all, I highly recommend you do not attempt this, unless you are a seasoned athlete like me. Two to three KGs, BIG claimes right? Well, their on solid f...

Running: Back At 100%

Five days ago I had my toughest ever day one the bike, you can see the full breakdown of how it went down here. At one of the highest points on the ride... The ...

How To Recover Like An Ironman Triathlete

Been training, or took a random unplanned trip to the gym, or maybe you took a particularly long walk. This is how to optimize your recovery to set yourself up ...

A day in the life of an Ironman Triathlete: First Ever 200 km Ride

Last Saturday was by far my longest and toughest day on the bike so far. Several weeks before one of my training partners, (Dai) sent me a couple of potential r...

Getting Rekt

Yesterday I decided to ride with the local "Chain Gang" here in Aberystwyth. The idea of this kind of riding is that the person at the front of the bunch rides ...

Training Block: April to end of May

At present I am 14 weeks away from my main event this year, Ironman Hamburg. The aim of the next few weeks are to start conditioning my body to get as comfortab...