Wet morning at Stanborough today wondering if the thunderstorm was heading towards us! Wetsuit or No Wetsuit that was my second thing I needed to put more thought into. Well I was planing on wearing it but decided against it with about 5 minutes to go as I didn’t want to wash and dry it […]
So… where to start… It’s been 8 weeks since I completed my first Olympic triathlon and became the Herts Champion and so there was definitely some nerves around but overall was excited to get back out racing. So the swim was the toughest I have experienced so far in my recent move to Triathlon. Firstly […]
Quick race report before we head off on holiday (Alps and heatwave here we come…) Um swim – terrible. Beaten up from the start – punched and kicked round every buoy on first lap – so far behind by second I couldn’t do much to limit the damage. All good practice at how to get […]
After the nightmare of Ibiza last year I decided that I was going to take a couple of years out from competing in the European Championships but when I heard it was going to be in Transylvania, I just couldn’t help myself (I have to admit I didn’t know that Transylvania was a real place). […]
In summary, brilliant race, fantastic location, well organised, enthusiastically marshalled, eye wateringly expensive and lots of fun. With the race fee, camping fee at Holkham and a night in a B&B (to keep Charlie happy – she is not a keen camper) having blown the Fowler race budget for the whole summer, a bad weekend […]
Coming into the race I was quite nervous as I’d been going quite well in training on the bike and run speed was coming along nicely – I’d even done some good brick sessions. All I had to do was survive the swim. Conditions were actually very good on race day having been quite miserable […]
I suppose the advantage of writing a late report is that others have said most that needs to be said, but after Graeme’s report this one is going to be quite bland. I was also waiting to see a picture of myself wearing the Centurion helmet, but I haven’t seen it yet to add to […]
Bit late but here’s my story from the Centurion. The swim start is often a grind a good pace is quite hard to find. So in my wetsuit I farted, just as the ace was started, and scared the poor lady behind. Now I do not usually swim fast, and many others kept splashing their […]
Entered back in October during the early bird offer. Had it in my mind that it was somewhere in the middle between a standard distance and 70.3 race. Early part of the year was generally spent running with non-existent swimming and occasional cycling. Didn’t think much about training for the event until April/May when I […]
A bit late to the party, but here we go, a long report for a long race. I have raced the Centurion (metric of course, I don’t do made up measurements systems) for the first time on Sunday. It was my first longer-than-standard distance race, and as such a guaranteed PB as long as finished. […]