Helping new and aspiring triathletes
Tri Monkey is about sharing experiences, learnings, mistakes and hopefully motivating people to start “changing their life one hour at a time”. Yet ironically, for the past week, I’ve been debating whether or not I share my results from my
I’ve always been lazy by nature, and fall into the ‘all or nothing’ category of almost anything I attempt. This unfortunate propensity applies to my general physical fitness and wellbeing. In summary, I occasionally become alarmed by some aspect of my
So many new and budding triathletes start their journey worrying about things that are out of their control. And to often their excuses, fears, lack of confidence and assumptions result in them “not doing it”. Does this sound familiar? “I
I used to laugh at people who’d get up at 4:30am to go training. “You’re insane”, is a phrase that regularly popped out of my mouth. Yet I was also trotting out this little chestnut: “With work and kids, I
Inspiration is all around you. You’ve just got to know when and where to look for it. The thing I love about triathlon is that it brings to life the saying: “you can never judge a book by its cover.”
Our bodies have a way of giving us important signs when things aren’t quite right. For some of us we simply put on weight, others get sick more often, some can’t train as hard or as often and for me,
Like most people starting out in this sport, I couldn’t run more than 500m without stopping. And then after that first 500m I could only manage bursts of 250m at a time before I had to stop again and reach for