Monthly archives: March 2017


2017 Scottish Duathlon Championships

High pressure over the Scotland meant for a beautiful sunny day on Saturday but the temperature dropped significantly over night and, coupled with the start of British summer time, the frost was laying thick when we left the house to pick up Roy at 6:30am on our way to the […]


CLS Day 2 – The Road to Tabayesco

When I first looked at Kev’s training schedule for the CLS week my first impression was “there’s no way we’ll manage to do all that!”.  But somehow we did most of the sessions, keen to take advantage of the warm weather, the amazing training facilities at Club la Santa and […]


Teguise-Haria-Tabayesco Day 3

  With a little more climbing planned for today and a valuable lesson learned on the nutrition front after a tough 10km end to a section the day before‎ into Teguise we set out at 9.15. Two water bottles, 550ml water, 700ml with a high 5 tablet, 2 gels, 1 […]


Lanzarote turned me from a novice to a sprinter!

When I booked the triathlon training camp I looked it as a goal to improve my fitness,  lose a bit of weight, and really what see what level I could take my cycling and swimming to. As we neared towards the trip my fitness was not too bad, but weight […]