Archive for the 'race report' Category

Season’s done (pretty much)

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

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 [...]

London World Series

Monday, August 8th, 2011

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 I’ve [...]

1st place in Schliersee

Monday, July 4th, 2011

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 [...]

A big result in Kitzbuhel!

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

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 to [...]

Howler in Madrid

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

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 Italian [...]

Great weekend in Paderborn

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

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 & Sabine [...]

8th in Dunkerque

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

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 I have [...]

Nice French Grand Prix

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

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 [...]

9th in Sydney Opener

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

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 good [...]

Mooloolaba World Cup

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

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 swim was [...]

Australian Sprint Triathlon Champs

Monday, February 21st, 2011

Had an interesting weekend in Geelong for the race.
I decided to drop in about 5 days out from the race.  I twisted my wrist while I was out running with Brad Kahlefeldt and Emma Moffatt. I thought that as my training is going to be disturbed I may as well turn it into a positive [...]

London World Champs Series

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Notice how you didn’t get a race report straight after Paris…
It didn’t go to plan!  A combination of getting screwed over by the race official and our rival teams and tiredness heading into the race from that 10day block! It hurts having a bad race….even if you can justify it.  We were meant to take [...]

Europeans Championships

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

We had a fun weekend at the European Championships this weekend in Athlone.
Firstly well done to Alistair (getting boring saying it) and Lucy who won the Juniors.  Also to everyone else who raced and didn’t get medals.  Everyone put their best effort in and “you can only hold your heart rate at 180 for so [...]

6th in Des Moines World Cup

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

That’s a big few races done and done.  I’m pretty happy with my result in Des Moines today.  I wanted to make up for a bad result in Madrid and thankfully I redeemed myself.

‘My team’ sent me the analysis from Madrid.  I found it really useful and soon found out that the problem was I [...]

A late race report from Madrid World Champs Series

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

I’m on the flight from Madrid over to Des Moines after racing the World Champs Series.
It didn’t go great to be honest, It was far from the result I was expecting.  I didn’t see the move and the race moved away before my very eyes! Quite frustrating really but major fault by me for not [...]

Dunkerque FGP

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Had a good weekend in France.  Great weather, great racing and great company with Team Lagardere Paris Racing.
Picked up heaps of cool kit as usual.  I always feel very spoilt by the team, although the hotel always leaves something to be desired!

Race morning I was feeling good.  Woke up at 6:15 with excitement.  I trained [...]

Peaks and Troughs on Sunday

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Our flights to Ireland were cancelled like all the other thousands of flights around Europe!  I feel for the people who are stranded abroad.  It sounds like fun but I bet they are spending a fortune and getting really stressed out about not being able to get back to their normal lives now!  Hope it [...]

National Duathlon Champs Silver.

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

Raced National Duathlon Champs as my first race of the season today.

Must say, it was bloody good to get racing and get away from the training phase if only for a short weekend.
It was a very windy and very exposed circuit, and a good field!  There was Tim and I, I guess as the favourites. [...]

Fraser Cartmell 4th in Abu Dhabi

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Massive congrats to Nessie! My Triteam team mate had a really solid race to finish 4th in Abu Dhabi.
The race had a 3k /200k/ 20k format and to boot a fantastic prize purse.

Good start to the season Fraser….long may it continue!
1 ) Eneko Llanos 6:34:37
2 ) Dirk Bockel 6:35:30 (+0:53)
3 ) Rasmus Henning 6:36:07 (+1:30)
4 [...]

On Holiday

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Very sorry for lack of blogging!
I am now on Holiday in Thailand with my Fiance and my friends. We are having an incredible time.  The weather has actually been pretty shocking…but we did see the sun today:) For the first few days we were still on the beach though because we are Brits and however [...]