We went mountain biking at the w/e at the excellent Glentress down past Peebles. We have had Mari staying this week - returning the favour in some small way for all the weeks I have stayed with her and her family in Stellenbosch, and we saw this cool VW camper. - There is a Life [...]

So there has been 3 very interesting races so far in the newly formed ITU World Championships Series. The most recent just having been in Washington D.C. I pretty much eat, sleep and breathe triathlon and therefore would happily describe myself as a tri-geek. Or perhaps as a ’student’ of the sport? Either way I [...]

Despite racing over the 70.3 distance last weekend I had a plan b for this weekend if the legs felt willing … thankfully by Saturday morning they had started to come around and by Sunday morning they felt like my own once again. Just.

Gav and Will are in D.C, Dan is in Arkansas (i think?) and Conrad is in hospital in Richmond.
Blair is back up North (and on the longest w/e in Scotland that means very little darkness which is really cool) in Inverness ready to hit the Highland Cross tomorrow morning. He’s been training regular enough and is [...]

Another weekend of summer and another weekend rammed full of racing - gottaloveracing!

Thanks to everyone who has been in touch since Sunday, it’s been fantastic support!! With a couple days of reflection I can appreciate that getting through to the finish line on Sunday was a fair old achievement, as the body wasn’t playing very fair with me once the running shoes were added.  It’s a funny old game [...]

3rd place wasn’t what I went to Wimbleball Lake for, but given it was - on reflection - probably the toughest race I’ve finished so far in my career, I’m content with a podium; my 6th on the 70.3 circuit.
More to follow when i wake up ‘tomorrow’ - its nearly 4am right now after driving back up North, [...]

The football season has finished and Wimbledon or the Ashes haven’t yet begun, so what is a sportsdesk to do?
Why, donate a whole page to a minority sport!
I was back page of The Herald newspaper by Doug Gillon today, which is a great bit of publicity for me, and triathlon as a whole here in [...]

I’m gearing up for my major goal race
of the first half of the racing season this w/e.
It’s been an up and down first few months of 2009 racing for me, but I am finally feeling confident about my prospects of being able to race to my potential on Sunday morning. I’m very motivated and generally [...]

I had a fun day today - firstly racing, and then mostly helping out - at the Stirling Triathlon which included the Scottish Schools Championships.

I like racing at home when I can, and the Stirling Triathlon Club have been very supportive of me so far, making it all the more worthwhile being able to give a little something back [...]

I sometimes worry that Nikola has a little too much time on his hands, and one of his latest posts over on the team site seems to feed fuel to that particular fire! Have a look at triathlonteam.org for the others!

Perhaps rather unimaginatively I have attempted to cobble together two seperate (and quite frankly unrelated) topics in order to avoid having a post title along the lines of ‘Photo’s for Norwell - Part II’….

After the early morning swim here in Stirling ( 21*100s on the 1.15/1.20 cycle broken) I wolfed the cereal, had a run up and around the uni, and somehow fitted in a visit to physiofocus before heading up the road to Aberdeen. The weather here at the moment really is superb, and I apologise (only a [...]

Dunnung Glen and Gleneagles loop. - 83k, 2hrs 45mins.
It happens a lot less often than I would like, but every now and then I find myself saying “who needs warm weather training in far flung places all over the place when it can be like this in Stirling?”. Today (and the past few days) has been awesome…. I even got [...]