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April 2024 Round Up
Racing We’ve made it… we’re finally into “race season” and the events will be coming on thick and fast from here on! Again it’s a great mix of events for our members this month starting off with an Ultra Marathon Read more…
Racing We’ve made it… we’re finally into “race season” and the events will be coming on thick and fast from here on! Again it’s a great mix of events for our members this month starting off with an Ultra Marathon Read more…
Stupid Brain… A bit of background… Last year (2023) I entered the Tri Team Glos race in May on a borrowed bike and with very little experience in swimming or road biking. In fact a whole length of the pool Read more…
The Big Day – Sunday 21st April 2024The day that I have been looking forward to for so long is finally here. Having eaten my second dinner at 8 pm while watching the beautiful London sunset outside the window, I Read more…
Ahead of the 51Fiver, I thought it would be good to do a Sprint to practice transitions and the feeling of doing all three sports together. This Birmingham tri fitted the brief in date, location and distance – great! A Read more…
Well sit back with a brew because this could be lengthy! Where do I start? Manchester has been quite frankly a journey thats been in the making for a lot longer than the 16 week training plan I followed to Read more…
BACKGROUNDI have been meaning to do Marathon for quite some time now, at least a year. Last year I did enter Portsmouth 2023 but had to withdraw at the last minute due to the snowstorm (Elin & Fergus) that hit Read more…
My watch told me I’d covered 50k and I was inching my way up a particularly steep and muddy hill – on a day characterised by steep muddy hills this one stood out as being particularly horrible. So slowly was I Read more…
Easter Sunday 2024 I had entered Gloucester half moreover as a “training run” for the bigger picture and goal for the 2024 season and to comfortably get the distance under my belt and to work on a pacing strategy. In Read more…
Well that was a wet month! However it didn’t stop our members getting out there for all sorts of training and events with some superb results and medals to take home. As we edge closer to the start of Triathlon Read more…
The Cotswold Cross sportive was a race I was supposed to do back in 2020, in fact was the reason I bought my ribble gravel bike! Covid unfortunately put an end to that grand plan but a couple of weeks Read more…