Another funky little Abu Dhabi race video compilation from Wattie who was out there helping us Trek/K Swiss athletes out - many thanks buddy, especially for changing my flat in T1 40 minutes prior to the gun firing. I wasn’t flapping at all. Promise!?!

It’s been a while since I have been able to log a race report, so i’ll throw a quick one together here. I’m back in Stirling, it’s not raining, Spring is coming and I have (more than) survived my first long race of this year. It’s all good really.

Crossing the line to congratulations from 2nd place finisher [...]

It’s home time for us from Abu Dhabi. I am chuffed to bits with how yesterday went, and once i get home it will be great to have some relfection on the past month or so of training leading into the event. It seems a lifetime ago I was sliding along the road in Stellenbosch [...]

It’s nearly race day … and boy has it been a few days of hanging around an waiting for it to arrive. I’m not much of a fan of emersing yourself amongst you’re rivals and competitors for days on end before an event, but there wasn’t much choice for this race. It was a  long [...]

Well, it may not be the most appropriate of pictures to attach to this post, but I like what Nikola is doing here (my nutrition has never exactly been an ideal model to follow!) and you never know, if things go well after the race i may be allowed a mojito of two, who know’s?!
In [...]

Please have a look at this wicked video put together from the footage filmed of us at our camp a couple weeks ago at K Swiss HQ. It gives a great insight into our own thoughts of the team spirit being created. I’m excited! Good memories too

Sorry there has been little updates of late … either time seems to have flown by or I simply haven’t had much spare time to sit down and share what I’ve been up to. Well, I’ll try and stick to that argument for now ;) 
Some bits and pieces of what I have been doing for [...]

The last week has been a whirlwind of driving up and down the Interstate 5 from LA to San Diego and back with my side kick Joe Gambles. Joe had a number of sponsor commitments and I was keen to go see some friends down there, including web team mate Lesley Paterson. We managed (somehow) to fit in [...]

Riding out along the Pacific Coast Highway with the guys yesterday. Today everything got wrapped up - quite literally, as my new Madonne road bike has been boxed up and will be winging its way to Stirling without me having ridden it yet. It has been a cracking few days; leaving me super amped and [...]

Today we rode LONG - ‘5hrs, 150k and hilly’ long - here is me with Ironman 70.3 World Champion Mikie Raelert before we started outside K-Swiss HQ. - Note the loss of hair?!?

New team, new kit, new bikes and jet lag. - It’s all go here in Santa Monica, north of LA, at the K Swiss headquarters. Lots of fun stuff happening, a little bit of training and a tonne of learning and some terrible hair styling all in the name of team building……??

Lesley has had a fantastic resurgence into the sport … she’s been around for donkeys years however, and it’s fantastic to see her - a Scot no less! -  tearing it up on the world scence once again!

www.lesleydoestri.org - check it out!

I’ve been lucky over the years (touch wood) … and not crashed my bike too often, however yesterday I managed to be stupid. But lucky. Things always happen for a reason in my book, but I am still figuring this one out!

This was pre-crash … sans bandages ….

Well I didn’t do as I said I would - and get a post up on Sunday about the week that was … and here we are on Wednesday already. Time seems to fly by, but that is no excuse. Here are some of the things I have been up to;

A run with the boys [...]

I am I think. I’m back at the ‘grindstone’ (it’s a hard life in the Southern Hemisphere sun!) and it’s going fine. 4 days of the week gone, 500ks to the good with a smattering of solid swim and run work thrown in. A couple of massages for good measure and the odd cafe stop [...]

It’s been a week already since the 70.3 last weekend; how the time has flown by. I’ve been keeping myself to myself here in Stellenbosch since my wingman - Toby - has been missing in action whilst spending some time with his lovely fiancee. I’ll let him off!
So I have been having some nice food, getting [...]

Woohoo! I won! It was 2 years and 3 attempts coming, but I secured a victory in East London on Sunday finally - and it felt good for sure. It’s not easy to win a race these days, so I am more than happy with how I coped on race day to do just that.

Breaking [...]

Participating in the Press Conference on Friday avo - evidently deep in listening mode!!

Tonight was spent getting ready for the red eye to East London from Cape Town in the morning. It’s nearly race time already … the last 3 weeks for me here in Stellenbosch have flown by that’s for sure. Last night I had my last hard run since the daytime temp peaked at 44C. Trust [...]

….. you might aswell, because who else will?
on this Tuesday morning in Stellenbosch I got up, ran 10 cracking Ks along the trails behind the University and town, came home, ate a breaky that was far too colourful for my own good before wandering down to the pool for a leisurely 3ks in the wet stuff.

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