Competing in the world’s biggest triathlon is exactly what you’d expect it to be like EXPENSIVE bikes, shaved legs, and loud hubs. I was racing on the Sunday morning, however Noosa Triathlon festival had 13 different events starting from the Wednesday with a run, swim, run (1.5km, 750m, 1.5km). Somehow […]
Surrounded by mountains, Lake Geneva is beautiful but it’s not flat. Not today. Today, it feels like I’m swimming in open ocean. I have to be at the top of a wave in order to spot the next buoy , my swimming form is all over the place and to […]
I always said I never wanted to do an Ironman but as I had coached people through them I felt I had to do it once to experience it and know what the training really felt like! My initial plan was to do the new event in Ireland which i signed […]
Monikie triathlon club had put on a weekend of racing with a youth drafting race on the Saturday and the Scottish mixed relay championships. This was followed with the individual Scottish Championship and ETU Age group qualifier race on Sunday. Plenty of the club had turned up to take part either […]
Transylvania is best known as the mysterious land of bloodthirsty vampires and howling wolves but this week it was also host of the Transylvania Multisport European Championships with a range of multisport events including my event the Middle Distance Triathlon a 1.9km swim, 83km bike and a 20km run. Arriving […]
What a morning, the forecast had been unclear, but to be met with this view when entering transition as 6am on Sunday morning at the middle distance Outlaw was really quite special. Being one of the older competitors I was in the last wave and it wasn’t long after arriving […]
Wanting to do longer rides in 2019, I signed up in August last year. The plan was to go with Hugh initially, cannot recall why that did not work out but having signed up for Liege too I thought this was a nice follow up. However at the time of […]
It feels like it was only a few weeks ago that I took the bold decision to push my newly found sport to, what I would consider, my extreme. I only did my first novice triathlon in January 2018 and since then only did one sprint in August 2018. It […]
The Goal Age group GB Team qualification in either Sprint Triathlon or Standard Duathlon. Qualification Events Ashridge Standard Duathlon Monikie Sprint Triathlon Bedford Standard Duathlon The Standard distance Ashridge Duathlon is part of a winter series run at the Ashridge Estate near Tring and as well as a working estate, […]
Warmup at Kinross Sportive This year’s events for charity fundraising is made up of a warmup, the main event and a cool down. The warmup of choice was the Kinross Sportive on 27 April. The day started off with registration and trying to get everything ready before setting off. The […]
