Seems some had some successful stories yesterday and at the Standard distance on Saturday. Have to say from a personal point of view, despite a decent amount of training this year, I had a better day marshalling on Saturday than competing on Sunday! First off, always prepare by studying the course, including the swim. Of course […]
The alarm went off at 4:46 am which is the earliest I’ve been up since my Irish dancing competition days 30 years ago. After a quick coffee to wake myself up, I jumped into the car and headed to Box End.I thought I knew where I was going having been to Box End earlier in […]
Its seems like ages since I have done a ‘proper’ Triathlon. In fact it was October last year. Seeing as this could be the only one I get to do this year I jumped at the chance.I hadn’t been to Box end before but luckily I marshalled for the standard on Saturday so had a […]
This was my first event of the year and first post-lockdown event! The start was run TT-style for distancing purposes, with a deep water start at 15 seconds interval which worked out fine from a competitor standpoint, but I imagine it was an extra burden on the organisers, trying to get everyone to the right […]
I have survived my first aquathon 💥My decision not wear a wetsuit was a good one. From the moment I put my toe in the water I knew it would be too hot for a wetsuit. Not that is quickened my transition 🤷♂️Started slightly away from the pack and didn’t get too many kicks during the swim. […]
The last few years I’ve been focusing on the longer tri events but recently I decided to put a bit of fun into my training and try to speed things up a bit so I entered this. Well the forecast was for lightning so I didn’t really think it would go ahead. I arrived ready […]
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). […]