It’s done and dusted!
I finished 11th in a very strong field feeling weak as the whole way round!
I’m not over the moon with my result but my head hit the pillow last night safe in the knowledge that I did everything I could on the day. It was a really tough race for me, In [...]

Will Clarke finished 11th in Hy Vee Triathlon.
1 S. WHITFIELD (CAN) 1:49:43
2 B. KAHLEFELDT (AUS) +0:00:01
3 J. FRODENO (GER) +0:00:01
4 K. GEMMELL (NZL) +0:00:02
5 J. SHOEMAKER (USA) +0:00:04
6 J. GOMEZ (ESP) +0:00:08
7 B. MCMAHON (CAN) +0:00:24
8 T. DON (GBR) +0:00:38
9 D. SAPUNOV (UKR) +0:00:43
10 R. YAMAMOTO (JPN) +0:00:49
11 W. CLARKE (GBR) +0:00:57

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I stumbled across a small article from Bevan Docherty just now.
It’s an interesting situation that myself and a lot of other athletes are finding ourselves in. The races just keep following the same trend at the moment. Fast swimmers get a gap in the swim, motivated they give their all on the bike and we [...]

Had a great evening with some of my good friends on the circuit last night. Laurent Vidal, David Hauss and Andrea Hewitt joined Clare, Alistair, Stu and I for dinner.  It’s not like the old days where we used to party after almost every race! Much more serious now.  These days, just 1 lager and [...]

Always a pleasure racing World Championships Series events!  Its a good job I didn’t write this post a few hours ago because I wasn’t a happy bunny!
What a race.  I’m tired but want to get the info to you tonight so I’m gonna write it in a wacky time line.
Saturday
14:00 Went to swim practice, found [...]

This time in 24 hours we will be ready to rock and roll again! I’m looking forward to it albeit slightly nervous about getting the result I want to get – – but being in a great city like this distracts you and in a way makes it easier to get the job done and [...]

We arrived in Washington DC!
The journey was relatively painless to be honest, I had a good night sleep and here I am! Absolutely loving it so far, Washington DC seems especially good! For America, everything seems really close together so it saves us hiring a car to get about. We are staying in the Grand Hyatt [...]

Another race down and it was yet another good hit out in France and a big confidence booster for myself enabling me to have a bit more relaxation with my racing programme and practice some vital racing scenarios. It was spoiled a little bit by the ending but I was happy to rock up get [...]

Clare and I finally got everything done today and left Loughborough to begin our next trip in France and America. We are staying at my parents house tonight in Cambridge before heading to France tomorrow on the Eurostar for a change.  I’m racing the 2nd installment of French Grand Prix in Beauvais. We are then staying [...]

We did 4×1k on the track + some 200m reps to start us up. You can do as many miles as you like but this is where the magic happens!
I ran a PB session which I was really pleased with. Really feel like my form is coming, there’s no way I was running nearly this [...]

Here is a quick roundup of what happened over the weekend…
My sister Rosie finished her education…Congratulations!!
Clare got a part-time job at Cooking Made Simple (my favourite take away in Loughborough:))!
I got a parking ticket on my Vespa (again).
Dan Hugo won his first international XTERRA.
Mikko Finished his first ever Triathlon and got 3rd in his age [...]

A good friend of mine has set up his own kit company called Zone3, they make some cracking wetsuits and race kit…I always thought James Lock would do well eventually and it looks like this is it!
RaceZone3.com

I sort of helped him develop it (for 10mins) and tried it out quite a few times in the [...]

Day One
Press Up Count: 75
Target: 150 per day before Des Moines race on 24th June
 

After getting a good ass kicking from the Russian Boys in Madrid – Vasiliev Brothers, Brukankov and Polyansky – I decided I was sick of having sand kicked in my face and I have set off on a mission to get [...]

Forgot how tough it is to be back racing, it’s great travelling and competing and I really enjoyed the last 3 weeks of it but now I come down from that to start training…it’s tough! 

I got back from the race well on Monday, yesterday I managed to get in a decent 5k swim, 1hr run [...]

 
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Had a good chat to one of my friends Tom Curtis today, left me with a beautiful quote I thought I would share!  We were talking about how tough Triathlon is getting these days. 
“If something is not challenging its not worth achieving now is it?”
Spot on I thought, can you tell I’m still angry at [...]

Just got back home after my first World Championship series race of the year in Madrid. To be perfectly honest I feel pretty frustrated about my performance. I am analysing it a lot though because the first outing of the year on the World Cup circuit is very strong. 
I really don’t take bad results well [...]