Monthly archives: May 2019


Outlaw Middle Distance triathlon – Nottingham May 2019

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 […]


Etape Caledonia

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 […]


Marius Outlaw 1/2

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 […]


Ashridge Duathlon

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, […]


Kinross Sportive

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 […]


Bishopbriggs Tri – a different perspective

This was probably the most nervous I had been going into a sprint race for a long time. I have been training for an Ironman and due to a niggling calf injury that had bothered me the previous year I have just spent my time building up distance slowly and […]


Liege-Bastogne-Liege Sportive

I’m not sure how I ended up doing LBL.  On the back of our cycling trip to Majorca the year before plans were put in place to do it again that fell through.  Somewhere in the midst of this Jeroen had mentioned doing LBL as he had wanted to do […]