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 [...]

I am back home now after a tough past month of training and racing, but my season is now finished now and I’m really excited to relax and recover after my best ever year. Since my last blog it all started to slip through my fingers a bit!  I picked up a bit of a [...]

Just got home from London.  What a fantastic weekend. 14th wasn’t the result I was hoping for but I’m happy with my effort.  I was 3rd best Brit which I’m happier with as it hopefully looks favourably towards me with the Olympic selectors.  To be honest the race didn’t suit me yesterday, It’s not how [...]

So, it’s been quite a week! I’m starting to feel a bit rock and roll recently after my new found skills in Hamburg!  I’ve picked up my new BMW 5 Series GT from ELMS Cambridge.  The locals call us the mainies now because we’ve been spending our evenings driving up and down the main street [...]

Mr. Clarke was second overall in Hamburg. We kindly ask he runs faster than 29min 47sec next time BRAVO! Full results here.

Hello everyone.  I’m currently sitting on the EZ 145 flight from Munich to London Stansted, I was on the exact same flight two weeks ago returning from Kitzbuhel excitedly writing my blog after one of my best ever races.  Here I am again sitting in same inhumane position they like to put us in writing [...]

Hey everyone, I had an awesome weekend. I enjoyed the uncharacteristically hot 2 days that we had and did lots of hard training to keep the body topped up in this rather intense period of racing!  I got so used to the hot weather in Australia but these two days threw me…I couldn’t sleep properly and [...]

Hello everyone.  I just got back to Loughborough after a longer then necessary days travel!  Phew I’m tired and my legs are way sore! Let’s not waste any time though, every day counts and it’s back to the grind but this time with heaps of motivation after a wicked weekend in Kitzbuhel! What a difference [...]

Just wanted to say a BIG thank you to professional sports photographer and friend Nigel Farrow for all of his fantastic race images so far this year. He even gives us access to our own secure online gallery to download the images from, which we are very grateful for – thanks Nigel! Here’s a sample [...]

I had a lot of fun this weekend in Madrid. It was good to be back on tour with the GB gang and I spent some good time with the team and also some good friends from other countries! It’s the 6th time I’ve been to Madrid.  Same course, (It’s still bloody difficult) the same [...]

This weekend was the first round of the Bundesliga in Paderborn Germany.  I decided last year that I’d like to compete in the Bundesliga after 6 years of competing in mostly the same races.  I’m really pleased I did because I really enjoyed this weekend and it was awesome to experience new races. Rainer & [...]

Lots of racing this weekend.  Well done to my training buddies who raced in Strathclyde, Joel Jameson in his really great Ironman debut (4th in Lanzarote) and everyone else who raced!  What a weekend! Dunkerque wen’t well I guess…actually very mixed feelings about it really. I had to train right up to this one because [...]

It’s not arrived yet but can’t wait till it does.  Boardman has launched a new range for 2011… The Brownlee’s chose the AiR 9.8 I chose this one.  It’s the climbing frame. I originally ordered the AiR but then I saw this the other day in the Cycling Weekly offices and thought it looked AMAZING. [...]

Currently I am half way through a big block of hard work which will carry me through a heap of races in France for my team Lagardere, Germany for my Bundesliga team Buschhutten and the World Champs Series races in Madrid and Kitzbuhel.  I’m currently ranked 9th in the World and want to try to [...]

Racing for Lagardere in the French Grand Prix is probably my favourite racing for the year.  It’s always a pleasure to meet the gang who by now are really good friends.  We always have a laugh and the other great thing is it’s usually just a 1hr flight away! In on Saturday back home on [...]

This weekend I competed in the opening round of the ITU Triathlon World Series in Sydney before I headed back home after 4.5months. I had a really good winter this year and was waiting for a good result, I was a little bit frustrated with my first 2 races out here in Oz but came [...]

I’ve been swimming for 19 years but I’ve never been very good… I work very hard in the pool but it’s still always been a struggle for me. If all the ITU guys in the world did a test set in the pool I’d probably in the bottom 20% in ITU racing. Sometimes I beat [...]

The first one ITU race of the year in Mooloolaba is done and dusted. I ended up 11th and a bit frustrated but optimistic about the big one in Sydney.  To be honest I thought I’d go a bit better then that but unfortunately didn’t have great legs on the day for whatever reason. The [...]

I just wanted to plug two of my friends Blogs. Mark Buckingham is on the GB Tri Gold scheme and you can follow his journey from GB steeplechaser – World Class Triathlete Click here. Conor Murphy is an ex fat Irish accountant, who canned in his job and decided to try for qualification for the [...]

Today I raced a 5k. It started at 7am…I have to do a morning run before any race so this time I took my camera…may have looked a bit weird in my running kit at 5:15am carrying a big camera taking shots of the sunrise! This is the secret though…you gotta get up early if [...]