So I went out to Spain for January and February to escape the cold winter here in the UK and wanted a good start to the year with a nice ten week training block away from the pressures of work/ home life. It was to be great preparation for my first race in 2017, Ironman …
The lead in to this race had been fine until a couple of weeks before the race. I had a suspected stress fracture in my leg and so based on professional advice my race was ‘off’. I took advantage of this time to catch up with friends and ‘socialise’. Ie: go out, have fun and …
Race Report – Ironman Barcelona 2nd October 2016 Read More »
Race Report IM 70.3 World Championships – Mooloolaba, Australia I qualified for the half ironman world championships in Bahrain in December 2015. This would be my second outing at the 70.3 Worlds but my fist time to Australia so I was very excited. The Worlds are always a great race because there’s no pressure, I …
Ironman 70.3 World Championships, Mooloolaba, Western Australia ; 4th Sept 2017. Read More »
I woke up just before my alarm went off at 3.50am. Down to breakfast 4.15am. Then the shuttle buses took us to the swim start. I was booked on this race at the last minute with the lovely Ken Glah from Endurance Sports Travel. Ken has this race really sewn up, everything is exceptionally well …
Race report Ironman Brazil 29th May 2016 – Florianopolis Read More »
It appears to be somewhat cooler than you think Brazil is going to be. Race day at the moment shows rain and temperature starting on the bike about 17 celsius rising to about 19 celsius before starting to cool again around 3pm. Sun sets early around 5pm. The swim is one lap but with two …
Arrival in Florianopolis, Brazil and course recce Read More »
So after a relaxing holiday in Dubai, drinking copious amounts of champagne and eating lots of really good food in some of the best restaurants in Dubai, I return home. After having a conversation with my coach we decide before writing Kona off for the year to have another go. I’m left with two options: …
Race day dawns. In the dark at 4.30am. I stagger out of my comfy bed realising it’s D Day. I love the mornings of race day. I think to myself, ‘the page is totally blank now and today the story will be written. I wonder how it will read tonight’. The hotel puts on a …
So I arrived in South Africa 4 days before race day. I must say that before flying out with the tendonitis problem, I’d felt quite depressed. I had worked so hard out in Spain over the winter months and everything had been going great and then these things just happen. On a 120k bike ride …
Just before going to camp I realised I was having a pain in my right foot on the outside half way down, when I ran. As most of us do at the beginning, I ignored it and thought ‘it’ll go away’. Well it didn’t. It got worse and at training camp I kept it to …
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