Hey everyone

I haven’t blogged for quite a while unfortunately mainly because it’s been quite a hectic period for me and I’ve been blogging a lot for Realbuzz which takes up a fair bit of my blog concentration!  So please check out the archives on that if you are interested.  My blogs can be read here.

So, what have I been so busy doing.

Well, obviously my training comes first, and it’s been going pretty well.  I’ve been hitting out some solid sessions in all 3 sports. Doing a fair bit of running with an amazing group we have down the track with Ryan Mcleod, John Beattie and James Wilkinson among the other lads.  We must have about 10 Sub 30min guys there right now! Swimming is going quite well swimming on my own as well as 3 times a week with the squad in the morning for the big swims and cycling is ticking along with various different groups.  It’s all been a bit too inconsistent for my liking though and consistency is the name of the game so. With all the media commitments, sponsor days and Christmas festivities, I decided by the start of the year i wanted to be out in Aus so I booked my flight to Australia and here I am…pumping the miles on the Gold Coast, getting in a consistently hard rhythm that’s going to set me up nicely for the season. gone! So far i’m not hurting too bad from the Jet Lag and it’s been awesome. Amazing weather and fantastic group to mix it up with.  I just came back from a criterium bike race with Courtney Atkinson and Stuey and some other Gold Coast roadies.

In other news Clare and I just moved house into Barrow Upon Soar which is 3 miles out of Loughborough.  It’s a nice village, with great community feel and the running is awesome straight from my door so we’re really happy with it!  This year we hosted Christmas and New Year for our families in our new home.

I’m really excited for 2012, it’s probably going to be the biggest year of my career in terms of ‘this is our chance to shine’ and ‘making it happen’. I along with everyone else is desperate to make the British Team in the 3rd spot so it’s going to be a scrap for it.  I feel like I’m in a great position after last year and I believe in myself to do it with a podium finish from 2011.  So I know when I am fit I can be racing at the very front but I’m going to need to prove it again in 2012 .  Come the first few races of the season I’ve got to be close to my best ever shape to give myself the chance.  British Triathlon wont take an also ran to London, they want a genuine medal contender, and we need to prove we can do this in the first 3 races of the year in Sydney, San Diego and Madrid.  If no one is capable of this then they’ll take a Domestique to pull together all the energy into the Brownlees chance.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year!

Will

I hope you all had a great season this year! I certainly did and I enjoyed some nice relaxing time off to recover the body and the mind!  I holidayed in Ibiza for 3 days and then 2 weeks cruising around Florida with Clare in a convertible for our more chilled holiday!  I definitely wouldn’t call 3 days in Ibiza a holiday, I was more nackered then I’ve been all year!

I started back training this week with Stu Hayes just ticking through 2 or 3 sports per day and I’m sure next week it’ll ramp up again to almost full training so we’re currently enjoying not training particularly hard right now.  It’s nice to do some good training with good feel in the legs without the feeling of being totally smashed all the time!  So far I feel really good, I know that as you get older it’s a lot easier to get fit especially if you have a big base from all the years of  training that you’ve backed up.

I got some good news this week, It’s not confirmed yet, but I should be back on World Class funding this year so it definitely makes things easier for me when I am preparing in Australia this year.

I’m really excited for the year ahead and it’s a massive year for us Brits!  I know that everything I do on ‘the road to London’ will determine the outcome at the Olympics.  I’m very motivated to make sure that I lie down at the end of the year and can put my head on the pillow and say that I did everything that I could and I’ve got no regrets!  I know for certain that this will be my only chance ever to win an Olympic medal in my home country and on that note…I had better get my bike ride done!

Morning everyone I hope you are enjoying this extended summer we are having here in the UK!  I’m pretty chuffed, apart from our holiday we usually miss out on weather like this as by the time it’s time to take a break Autumn is well and truly under way.

I’m having a great break so far.  I really look forward to this part of the year as it’s just for me a complete change in lifestyle and something I’ve mostly missed out on in my life.  As much as I love competing and training 6hr a day I also like to wake up knowing that I can do whatever I want today.  I can eat that pizza hut for lunch if I fancy it, or I can go out for a drink in the evening with my friends!

I just last week got back from a 3 day trip to Ibiza.  I was out there with my friends from school that I hadn’t really spent much time with since leaving 10 years ago.  My time with them was just like it used to be though, I really enjoyed catching up.  I didn’t want to go longer then 3 days as I knew that 3 late nights is my limit before I start to crack, and to be honest my predictions were perfect because I was very tired when I got home.  Actually when I was on the plane back to Stanstead most of the flight were people in their 20’s – 30’s all fast asleep.  That’s what nights out starting at 2am does to you!

Clare and I just put an offer in on a new house that got accepted and we’ve managed to sell ours as well so all going smoothly we will be in a new house just down the road in Barrow Upon Soar by December.  It’s so damn complicated though to sort out, I can’t wait till it’s sorted!

We are also off for our holiday on Monday to Florida for two weeks. We are cruising around everywhere south of Orlando in a rental convertible.  I’m looking forward to relaxing after my exertions from the season and also from Ibiza!  After this it’s back to it and i’m getting very excited about preparing with a new focus already.  The break is doing it’s job!

Cheers.