http://will-clarke.com Will Clarke - 2 x British National Triathlon Champion and Beijing Olympian Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:56:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have been in Iceland for the past 3 days. Was nice to travel without a bike bag! Very refreshing! I won the trip at a 10k that I did in Hyde Park.  My friend Clayton organised the event and the first prize was an all expenses payed trip to Iceland ... http://will-clarke.com/a-3-day-break-in-iceland/ 1) Don't go out too hard, and especially don't finish the first lap ahead of Mo Farah, you should still feel fresh after half way and not like you are about to collapse! 2) Don't do any sessions that are going to deplete you in the week before...maybe 10 days before! 3) ... http://will-clarke.com/things-i-learnt-about-running-the-uk-inter-counties-cross-country/ Massive congrats to Nessie! My Triteam team mate had a really solid race to finish 4th in Abu Dhabi. The race had a 3k /200k/ 20k format and to boot a fantastic prize purse. Good start to the season Fraser....long may it continue! 1 ) Eneko Llanos 6:34:37 2 ) Dirk Bockel 6:35:30 (+0:53) 3 ... http://will-clarke.com/fraser-cartmell-4th-in-abu-dhabi/ I love following this guys journey.... He ran 28:02 solo at the weekend in Trafford for the 9th fastest 10k ever by a Brit! I knew Thommo a bit from Loughborough, I only ever managed to jump into a few sessions with him but I am pretty sure that he wasn't any ... http://will-clarke.com/chris-thompson-most-talented-distance-runner-we-have/ [caption id="attachment_577" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Esquire Magazine Shoot, April 2010"][/caption] http://will-clarke.com/esquire-article-how-i-train/ Thought I would video my 2hr 26k run in Loughborough.  Don't think it worked as well as I thought! It's quite hard I tell you but at least the music is good... http://will-clarke.com/sunday-2hr-run-in-loughborough/ Just ticked off another good week.  Lots of hard training, something hard every day in fact which tends to chafe! I managed to find a few pictures from the Cross Country.  I Felt fine coming off it although they do leave you in a bit of a hole for a while. ... http://will-clarke.com/this-week/ Here are couple of great paintings Vanessa Raw is doing for Adidas/Lloyds bank. Apparently she is the Official Olympic Artist and i think they are also going up for her Degree show. Her Website is still being finished. I will put up the link later. Can you guess who these people are? No ... http://will-clarke.com/ness-raws-art/ I raced the National Cross Country Champs at the weekend. (struggling a bit for photos but I found a few on FB) I rocking in 23rd.  I was pretty happy with this. it's a pretty solid result for me in the middle of my winter training and I finished with some ... http://will-clarke.com/hit-my-target-in-national-xc-champs/ Bathroom Before Bathroom 3 hrs later Finished Product http://will-clarke.com/how-about-this-for-bathroom-improvement/