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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Regular trips to the Borders for some of the club members over the last few months have provided some competitive training in the XC Series. Whilst competitive for most of us just means getting around the course the juniors were nearer the front of the field and Cammy Fordyce won […]
A couple of years ago I decided to give myself a new challenge – qualify for Team GB. At first it was just a pipe dream and frankly a ridiculous idea, having never been particularly sporty in my former years and being one of the slowest runners on the planet. […]
Dave’s Report from Aberfeldy where he won his age group to become Scottish Champion Not a great start in the Aberfeldy Middle Distance Triathlon on 19-August 2018, awaking to rain at 5:30am and 11⁰C as a light breakfast was eaten before heading off to T2 to drop off training shoes […]
Whilst Forrester has been a good training location on a Saturday we have faced a high admin load in the background to continually make things work. This has been particularly the case for running and cycling when sometimes you can use certain areas of astro or grass and other times you […]
