Sunshine. It happens en Ecosse you know….
Nearly October? Swimming in the sea, and in SCOTLAND??
Yup, needs must, and well, I hadn’t raced a Championship event at home this year. Plus, David had won two events this year already, so I figured he’d had enough already!! Just kidding. Well, not really.

Give Lance Armstrong his due - Google him, YouTube him, watch archive footage of him, - you can’t fail to be motivated. As the clip says ‘if you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind’.
Whatever you’re take on him, one thing is for sure; he’s hard as nails!

I was luck enough to head along to the Competitor studio whilst in town in August, and you can listen to it at www.competitorradio.com/details.php?show=258
But i wasn’t the first Scottish multi sport athlete to hang out with Babbit and Huddle . . . . . .

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I’ve started to add some pictures to a Flickr page; not many yet, but i will do my best to start taking more picutres on my travels from now on. You can find the link down on the right hand side bar. Under Flickr surprisingly…..

So Lance is Back: Is he bored? Does he think the level isn’t moving on enough? - Did he think when the groupe maillot Jaune took 42 minutes to ascend Alpe Duez during this years Tour, ‘that’s not very quick, I can do that again‘? Has he got a point to prove regarding the plethora [...]

I was in the cinema the other evening and saw a short little Orange advert about him (you can’t go to the cinema anywhere in the world without seeing something ‘Orange’). It charts the journey of Mark Beaumont - from Scotland no less - as he circumnavigated the globe on his bicylce faster than anyone [...]

It happens every now and then. Usually I expect it to happen after a flight, one of those (usually long haul) where the coughing fit is sat in the seat directly behind or in front. But more often than not it just creeps up, as it did this time. Although I expect the attempt at [...]

I am not an Xterra athlete, and I don’t know Jamie or her husband, but I am a fellow pro triathlete and I, like many people in this world have experienced the effects of cancer on our friends and loved ones. I am an avid triathlon enthusiast and student of the sport, so I was fully aware of Jamie [...]

I tried to suggest that it should be the first place that goes in the middle. But Welsh logic whilst pointing right (my) to left says ‘first, second and third’. Thanks to Evan Dobson for the picture.

Where is the pontoon going?
I last raced at the Bala triathlon in 2001, as a not-so-fast-junior. Yesterday I raced as a not-so-fast-senior!

Alhough it is nearing the end of the season for many folk, i’m still looking further down the road. The 2008 Foster Grant Ironman World Championship 70.3 in Clearwater, Florida is a mere 8 weeks away, and it is a big goal or mine.

Well, i didn’t finish. Just to clear that one out of the way. Unhappy? Of course. Stiff and sore today? Aye. But not really much worse than if i had emptied the tank racing a 70.3. My point being? Simply that i was never going to ruin the end of my season by simply finishing an Ironman, [...]

It’s Thursday morning and we’ll head off down the road in the general South West direction a bit after lunchtime. Blair and i are thumbing a lift with our great friends/second family/often-helpers-in-a-bind/supporters and most recently providers of transport (alas, the Clio died a death and we had to scrap it…. but thankfully there was a Punto going spare for [...]