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 […]
With over 3000 athletes representing over 50 countries for the ITU Multisports World Championships it was going to be great week of sport in Penticton BC, Canada. Race morning was an early start with the first waves going off at 7am and my wave, of around 150 athletes, starting at […]
My plans for Dusseldorf had been in place for months; fly to Dusseldorf for work on the Tuesday then stay for the weekend and race. Unfortunately work got in the way and I had to attend a Sales Meeting in Munich from the Monday – Wednesday. Cue much worrying about […]
This started when Coach Kev said that the Knockburn Tri’s are fantastic and that the Standard at the end of the season could be something to aim for (?!!!). Luckily for me, the Knockburn Sprint came up while on the lookout for something to do in June and I figured […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
THE HEB – RACE ON THE EDGE 3-4TH SEPTEMBER 2016 RACE REPORT (Nicola and Sally) When Sally and I decided last year that we would enter a race in 2016 we had looked at half-ironman events but decided that we needed something a bit different, yet still multi-sport and […]
After 2 and a half years as a member of the club I did my “first” ever Triathlon on Sunday 15th August. So…..What took me so long? Well, although I love running and cycling I avoided any swimming as I was pretty rubbish and had a fear of putting my […]
