Well…things haven’t got better since my last post.  Just been trying to relax and enjoy some time off.
It’s been a rough few weeks, I’m not usually a guy who gets problems like this however if I do they blow over within a day.  However this is dragging on like anything.
Eventually my wounds got infected (both [...]

Couldn’t find a suitable picture!
I stacked it a treat on my bike yesterday….Thanks guys for the support.
It almost happened…I got a hole in my cycling shorts and 1cm more to the left would have left me being done for indecent exposure!
Clark Ellice and I were out riding and he put in a sprint…I responded, but [...]

I’m afraid there was no magic again for me in Kitzbuhel this weekend, it’s not been the best season, just a handful of races to be really proud of…I’ll get my excuses out now!
To be honest I’ve just been digging myself into a deeper hole as each race goes on and now I am more [...]

Raced London Tri this weekend.
I tried something different (not sure why in reflection) and it didn’t really worked out but I enjoyed the weekend at my favourite race of the year.
I had a great swim which is nice, I got round without getting beaten up and I had plenty of gas to play with!
Onto the [...]

Great shot my Delly Carr!
Everyone is always super quick to write when they have a good race…
No one ever wants to write about the bad times…however, these are the most interesting and I hate it when people cover it all up with smiley faces as professional sport is not like this.
I am currently in bit [...]

I’m currently at my parents house waiting to race in London.  It was funny this morning and bought me back a fair way to see my Boardman Pro Road bike parked up against my very first bike the Giro 300
When I first got this bike I thought it was top of the range.  I was [...]

After a rough couple of years, my nemesis Olly Freeman is back racing well again and getting better each race. By the way he’s going in training it’s only a matter of time.  After not writing for a year because he didn’t want to write about the lows of Triathlon it’s back up and offers [...]

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 [...]

Finally I’ve started my first taper for the Seoul World Championships Series. It’s awesome…but what a strange feeling!

I think in a sport like triathlon it’s especially difficult to get a taper right.  You have 3 sports to train for so you always think you should be doing something, but if you do too much you [...]

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 [...]

The day started terribly.
Wednesday morning swim, I hate Wednesday mornings. We swim at 6:00am and it sucks!  It falls right after my Tuesday run session and if I am tired at all when I swim…I can’t swim!

We then had to ride indoors at 10:30am to get away from the snow.  I rocked up, got set [...]

I’m off to bed.
Wow, that was a good send off, Wild In Loughborough!
Good laugh, spent a ton as usual! £10 entry, In Loughborough! It’s the new London!
Thanks for following me in 2009, It’s been a quality year, had some great races and had a lot of fun, but really looking forward to push on to [...]

Happy Christmas to everyone, I hope you have a great day and 2010 is a big success.
I am enjoying some more ‘pressure off time’.  I feel quite tired after the past 9/10 weeks so it’s nice to come back down from the volume and intensity that I was on.  Christmas came at a good time, [...]

Just arrived in Antequerra (Southern Spain) for our top secret British training camp.
I’m rooming with Captain Slug Eyebrows, Aaron Harris again and so far its not been too bad.  Were not on the rocks yet and no real arguments! It is only day one however.

Spirits in the camp are really good, its the biggest camp [...]

Probably get a bit nailed for this post…
One think that really annoys me about Triathlon is the amount of World Championships there are about and in-fact, the amount of races there are in the World.  It’s crazy how many top level races there are kicking about.
I would love to see one World Championships and the [...]

I’m running with Adam Bowden today, 29min boy for 10k!
Todays weapons of choice are as follows!

Granted, this race has been around for ages.  Most people know about it, but I am really keen to do this this year!
I wonder if I can get round without getting injured or ill!?

I’m going to get on the phone to coach!

Well, I’m now getting stuck into my 2nd week of training.
It’s going really well so far, It definitely gets easier the older you get, probably more relevantly the more years you have of backing up the hours.
I was hurting big time in the first few days, I was blowing up in every session and I felt in [...]