So tomorrow morning I’m racing an Ironman again - Tempe, Arizona. I’m excited to have a shot at the long stuff again, as its been a little while since I last gave it a go. Quite some time actually. That being said it (like most things in life) seems to have rolled around much sooner than [...]
As I’ve admitted, my blogging has been at best, poor over the past couple of months, but that’s not to say that I don’t have anything to blog about. Quite the opposite – it’s probably been the most busy and fun 60 days I’ve been lucky enough to have because of triathlon! I thought I would [...]
Careful, don’t you go falling off that chair now… I mean it! – It’s been a ‘lenghty while’ shall we say but I’m back on it and ready to give you some race reports. Promise, but I can’t promise anything regarding the quality control processes in place. I’ll try my best, as always
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Well, I really must start off with an apology for the distinct lack in material on my site of late … truth be told i’m just having too much darn fun to find the time to blog! Excuses excuses… I know. However, I am going to start to fill the ‘race report’ holes from the [...]
Vegas baby! I just thought i’d better get that out of the way quickly…clear the air and all Sunday was a tough day in a lot of ways – tough bike ride, tough run course, tough climate and tough competition (it was Worlds after all) but mostly tough as my stomach didn’t read [...]
On Sunday afternoon I was on the start line of the richest race in Triathlon, alongside 29 other happy athletes … with over a million dollars being divied up over the course of the days racing and guaranteed prize money simply for finishing (a la Tennis and Golf to name a few other sports) we had [...]
Later today I will start in the Des HyVee 5150 olympic distance event … and I can’t wait to get going with it – excited indeed! This was an unexpected race for me, but I’m taking it with both hands!
The race is going to be live on the web at www.hy-veetriathlon.com so hopefully you can [...]
I tend to be lazy when it comes to having my hair cut … and this trip to Boulder has been no exception. I do believe that when I arrived here some 6+ weeks ago I was suggesting I would need to get it chopped soon. Well, it took till today and I reckon I [...]
On Saturday I rolled out at early o clock with my Trek/K-Swiss team mate Joe Gambles for what would be our last long ride before the up coming Ironman 70.3 World Championships. We went up high towards the mountains and into the thin(ner) air. It was only my 3rd ride up there, as opposed to [...]
Sometimes things just seem to work out … but if someone had told me even just two months ago that I would be able to qualify for the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Las Vegas early next month, I would have suggested they were having a (not very amusing) laugh.
Little did I know. After my racing at [...]
Steelhead was never a race that I had planned to race at before I arrived in the US – but after the Boulder 70.3 last weekend I decided to make the trip over to Michigan and do my first ‘back to back’ in some time; it could end in tears, or – I hoped - act as [...]
9th Place: Swim 24:00, Bike 2:03:48, Run 1:29:59 ….total 3:59:50
Yesterday was the next installment in my ‘racing myself back to shape’ programme … let say I maybe underestimated the effects of racing at a mile high elevation after less than 3 weeks of acclimatisation, but lessons were learned and plenty positives taken. Onwards and upwards.
Nearly 3 weeks of Boulder Time have passed me by already; time really does fly. That means that this weekend I am racing again; right here in town for the Boulder 70.3. So the past 7/8 days have been a mix of solid training (i still need to get fit; there ain’t no hiding from [...]
I have been in Boulder for nearly two weeks already; time to to get over the jet lag; time to get used to the slightly, lets say, elevated temperatures but mostly … time to get used to that little issue of altitude.
I’ll write more about settling in soon, but for now I will stick to the thin [...]
Before I raced at Racine 70.3 last weekend I spent an exciting few days in Madison staying with our legendary Trek/K-Swiss team mechanic Mark Andrews and his family …. it was exciting on at least two fronts:
1. I was getting given my brand new Trek Speed Concept - here is a preview of the bike I did for SRAM whilst [...]
Let me tell you – this week has been a busy one; starting off with a trip to Switzerland , a couple days at home to pack (read: procrastinate) and head on over to the US for 6 weeks of training and racing based out of Boulder. En route was a visit to Trek in [...]
Two weeks further down the line from the trip to liverpool and with two more weeks of Shire-training tucked away it was time to head towards departures at Edinburgh airport once more. Destination Zurich; for the next round of the Ironman 5150 series of olympic distance racing. I had Ritchie Nicholls as a travel buddy, starting only his [...]
Keep the ball rolling! – One week on from the season debut at the Scottish Sprints it was up a distance notch for the UK round of Ironman’s new olympic distance 5150 Series in Liverpool at the weekend. The race was higher profile and a little bit busier than last weekend shall we say, so I was looking forward [...]
It’s been a while, but I’m back in the game! And I’m glad to say I’m loving it. Today (in case it wasn’t clear from the heading!) was the Scottish Sprint Championships at Lochore Meadows and my first race for 2011.
Training had been ticking over nicely the last couple of months and at the beginning [...]
Hello from South Africa! First things first – I am back in Stellenbosch, where I have spent this time of year for the past 3 winters … but phew I had forgotten how hot is it out here at this time of year! - A far cry from the cold and chilly weather I left behind in Edinburgh last [...]
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