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 was looking forward to a good night’s rest. Perfect condition 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 friend who is also doing the 51Fiver with many of 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 get me around the course… Having signed up almost a 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 moving that the map on my watch kept flipping directions 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 the past I had only actually completed 2 half marathons, Read more…
This was meant to be my Strava notes post race, but then realised it was getting a little long and so it’s become an accidental race report. This is the “Berkeley 20 & Half Fission” race. A small race down at Berkeley Nuclear Power Station, and consists of a 20 Read more…
My second time doing runwalkcrawls excellent Celtic Trail Races on a “sunny” December Wales morning. After not an amazing year of racing, I wanted to get something in the calendar to prevent or at least partially mitigate the standard winter rut but was umming and aaahing.. So.. one evening in Read more…
Having arrived on the Friday afternoon, I found several other triathletes at the same camp site. We were able to compare previous experiences and talk about what to expect on the day. Three of them were more used to fell running and one had already completed the Roc, England, 2 Read more…
September 3rd 2023 – Spoiler alert… I finished!! BuildupI’d always had the dream of one day completing an IRONMAN event, not just any Long Course event but a full on proper branded IRONMAN event. However so often things remain a dream unless you actually do something about them. Watching a Read more…
River Dart 10 km challenge. Having undertaken a mind numbing 10Km swim at lake 32 earlier in the year, I decided any future distance swims needed to be sea or river, which led me to this event. Seemed a little pricy when booking until I read that all profits go Read more…