Toby's Blog
I am a professional long-course triathlete for Team Timex - I've a few years of hard work and fun coming up! Here's to the long-game as I work my way up the professional ranks!
March 4th, 2010 by Toby Radcliffe | 1 Comment
Toby takes his first look at Nikes’ latest running shoes, the Lunarelite+. Find out what our resident international ironman thought of the shoes before the serious testing begins!
Tags: nike lunar elite, nike lunar running shoes, nike lunarelite review, Nike LunarElite+, nike running shoe review
March 3rd, 2010 by Toby Radcliffe | 3 Comments
Yesterday I went along to the launch of the new Timex product range, to discover what their plans are for the the Virgin London Marathon on 25th April.
Tags: london marathon, Running watch, Timex, Timex 150-Lap Sleek, Timex Ironman Global Trainer
September 9th, 2009 by Toby Radcliffe | 1 Comment
This race tested my mental endurance as much as my physical endurance. A true epic that will live in my mind forever!
Tags: tobt radcliffe, Trans Rockies Race, Utra Race
August 7th, 2009 by Toby Radcliffe | Comment
Having just raced in the Ironman UK last Sunday, I’m in ‘big race’ recovery mode and have done absolutely nothing but rest for the last week. So guess what I’m going to write about?
Tags: big race recovery, recovery from running, triathlon recovery
June 10th, 2009 by Toby Radcliffe | Comment
While 11,000 cyclists relaxed and tinkered with their bikes the day before the Italian classic bike race the Nove Colli , about 100 runners were getting ready to run the same route as the cyclists, albeit with an 18 hour head start. While the hardened few had their sights set on the full 200km run, [...]
Tags: ironman, nove colli, Toby Radcliffe, ultra running
May 21st, 2009 by Toby Radcliffe | Comment
This year I managed to get myself signed up for the Trans Rockies 6 day ultra run in Colorado in August. Very much a novice when it comes to (a) trail running and (b) ultra running, my training schedule has been adjusted slightly. The first major changes were to my long runs which are getting [...]
March 3rd, 2009 by Toby Radcliffe | Comment
I’m 5 weeks out from a major race, so I’ve just had a tough week’s training. At this point in time I am trying to log high volume and still maintaining quality and some above race pace efforts.
To make this a bit easier, I had a partner in crime come down to train with me [...]
Tags: Australian Masters Olympic Race, Ironman Training, Toby Radcliffe
February 5th, 2009 by Toby Radcliffe | Comment
This weekend just gone saw the first race of the year for me. In reality it was less of a race and more of a high end workout. There had been no taper, no peak. In fact, I’m still well and truly in the ‘base training’ phase of my year… a couple of months away [...]
Tags: ironman triathlete, race goals, race strategy, Toby Radcliffe
January 22nd, 2009 by Toby Radcliffe | Comment
I was going to write this blog entry on running form, economy and how I’m trying to change my form to run faster and be less injury prone. But that’s not what I’m writing about at all. In fact, quite the opposite. I’m having a ‘ditch day’ today. I got up at 5:30am, went to [...]
Tags: ditch day, ironman, running technique, Toby Radcliffe
