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.

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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 niggles [...]

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 [...]

Been an interesting week. My lookalike Brad Kahlefeldt took me on some dodgy trail in Nerang! I stacked it twice, he stacked it once and I came away with a very bruised wrist and a nice pair of sore legs from the downhill running!
Trainings been a bit dodgy since then.  I’m struggling to swim! I’ve [...]

I just arrived in Madrid. Probably the road trip that I have most been looking forward to.  After this battle I will be heading directly to Des Moines for the big money race.  Madrid is my priority though…I will give all I have here and then for Des Moines I will give what I have [...]

I don’t like being the guy who turns up to a foreign country and never makes any sort of effort at all…

I asked the bus driver to our hotel what ‘Hi’ is in Korean.  He said something completely impossible to repeat! I gave up then, unfortunately I won’t be taking one Korean word back home!
It’s [...]

Sorry guys for the lack of updates but I notice with all of my Triathlonteam mates that their blog count has slowed.  It’s only because racing is getting closer, heads been down, stuck into training and when this happens there really isn’t a lot to talk about!
My friend tagged me in this photo…Please say we don’t [...]

I say all this should I qualify again! I know what a ball ache it is to qualify for the Olympic Games and I am also aware you have to be lucky as well but I get more excited about London 2012 every day…
I first learnt that we were awarded the Olympics while having a [...]

Don’t you just hate those ‘bad days‘…Bit of a Rant here!
Does anyone have any tips on how to handle these days?
Some mornings you wake up and you realise almost straight away you shouldn’t have bothered waking up at all today…
I can always tell when I am on for a bad day, for me it usually [...]

Got back from Spain a few days ago.
Was a tough camp, got in a lot of intensity so feeling pretty smashed. I now have an easy week though to adapt before we make another push! This winter is never ending I tell you.  It doesn’t help that it’s still snowing.  Usually I go to South [...]

Cant believe this first part of the year has gone so quick almost Christmas and 7 weeks into my training, I’m really enjoying the process.  If you are looking for a good present for the family for Xmas…

It’s quite different being coached by Ben Bright, things feel very under control, not one day is particularly [...]

Just so as many people know as possible…Cheating w&%ker Davide Rebellin just tested positive for Cera, which is an advanced version of EPO.
His Silver Medal has been revoked and Cancellara has been promoted to Silver and Kolobnev to Bronze.
I hope he never races again and everyone loses all their respect for him!  It’s all very [...]

Well yesterday saw the end to my 10 day block, and my last hard block of the year!
This training block couldn’t have gone better. I managed to back up hard session after hard session and now I feel ready to smoke it at the Worlds.  My swimming and running are going especially well which is [...]

I pulled up from London pretty well in the end.
One of my competitors and friends Clark Ellice is down from New Zealand, he’s a good athlete and were getting our heads stuck into this last block of training for just one more hard week this year and it’s gone really well so far. I think [...]

The swims are getting faster, we knew that anyway…that was before these two rocked onto the scene! Can they really change things?

This is Marco Rivera.  He raced us in the FGP in Dunkerque and a few other races where he was 30 secs off the front of 2nd place.  Guess what, I was watching the [...]

It’s funny! I’m always quick to write something when it’s going well! When it’s not necessarily going well…nothing! Same with a lot of people I think!
London went great at the weekend, I competed at the end of a difficult period for me, motivation wise I felt a bit low, I worked hard in Wales but [...]

Off to Wales tomorrow with Rick.
I’m looking forward to it I have to say, especially as I’m at Rick’s, I don’t have to do the washing up, laundry, cleaning and when I am not training its chill time…
We have 35hrs planned, I’ve got to say, I think I need it and I need to get [...]

That’s because my head is well and truly down this week…after that nightmare journey back it put me in panic mode before Kitzbuhel World Championship Series! Wanted to get back into my training as quick as possible, start my aerobic work and basically train straight through Kitzbuhel with one day easy before to give myself [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]