Three tough races in three weeks…

27 June, 2016 by Rykno in Life, Race, Training and tagged #ironmanjonkoping, #ironmansweden, #kalmarswimrun, #kustjagaren, #swimrun, #tyrsverige, #tyrwarriors | Leave a comment

As most of you know my training over the last 20 months has been sporadic. Swimming being the only anchor keeping my training a float.

Jan and Feb I managed to find a better routine and found myself on a road back to hard training with 9-10 hours/week. But then work and illness got in the way so I only managed 1-5 hours training March and April. In May things slowly turned for the better and I was able to get over 6 hours/week for 6 weeks.

This past week I manged to push myself back into training and had
550 min biking
60 min running
210 min swimming
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Don’t worry, you’ll pass out before you die

15 June, 2016 by Rykno in Race, Race Report and tagged #kustjagaren, #stockholmswimrun, #swimrun, #tyrwarriors | Leave a comment

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So last weekend the 11th of June was the start of Swimrun season 2016 for Team TYR Warriors. Unfortunately, my teammate Fredrik was having some issues with his calf muscle as late as Monday the 6th, so we decided it was better he continue with rehab and save himself for our other two races coming up in July. Luckily through Facebook and my swimming friends I was able to find a replacement for Stockholm Swimrun. Marius contacted me and a day later it was decided. I was very clear that I was going to be slow, so it was going to be more of a workout for him than a race, and he was ok with that. Continue reading →