I’m pleased to share this post by fellow Salvation Army Officer John Clifton…

Following a training programme is crucial to being able to complete any physical event. Towards the end of 2022, I signed up to do an iron-distance triathlon. Knowing I couldn’t just turn up and complete it on the day, I followed, in a manner that could be called ‘religious’, the ‘Be Iron Fit’ programme by Don Fink. It is a 30-week programme that, starting on January 1st, 2023, meant that the event day landed perfectly on July 30th, the race day for Outlaw Nottingham Full. The format of the programme is clearly structured. Monday is rest day (there was an addictive dopamine-rush of achievement from ticking off completion of the first training session on January 1 – a Monday!); Tuesday was swim and run; Wednesday was the brick session (google it); Thursday was swim and cycle; Friday was run (then also swim at a later phase of the programme); Saturday was a long cycle (then followed by a short run brick session; again, google it) and then Sunday was a short cycle and a longer run (not back-to-back, so not a ‘brick’… Ok, here you go…).

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