I’ve just come home from an exciting weekend in Stockholm, Sweden. It’s a new flag for me which is always nice, I love to travel somewhere new as sport usually takes me on multiple, almost cloned visits to the same locations.  I thought that Stockholm was beautiful place, however it’s extremely expensive and definitely far [...]

Things are starting to wrap up on the Gold Coast and we’re coming into the start of the race season again. I’m looking forward to getting home, It’s gone amazingly out here and I wouldn’t change one day. It’s really important to get in a big winter in order to go well for the whole [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been here for 9 weeks now and still loving Australia.  We’ve had an awesome month of weather, just a few overcast rainy days and other than that…too hot if anything! My tank top collection has grown to 6 since my 26th birthday! You won’t catch me wearing anything else now! The squad is battling [...]

Now the Xmas ‘break’ is out the way, training has well and truly resumed and we are settled into the rhythm here in Australia pumping out huge weeks…living and breathing triathlon. I must be training hard because I’m forced to take extra sleep during the day just to get through the week + I am [...]

It’s been a decent week…I’ve actually turned the DVD played off finally and I’ve been getting the blood flowing with some yogging…or it might be Jogging?!  It feels so nice to be out there amongst the clouds and mud.  I’m not feeling too bad so far which is crazy!  I’m even envisaging winning again and I’m [...]

I’m currently on day no.4 of probably the hardest block I have done this year.  I guess, it’s a “s%$t lets keep this season moving after a bit of a howler at the Europeans.  I spoke to Ben and Joel after the last race and we decided to really press on for 10 days leading [...]

The British Triathlon Team are now in Rio Maior, Portugal enjoying a solid week of training, all good! We are here ahead of the European Triathlon Champs in Athlone.  Apparently it’s a really nice race with lots of atmosphere. Ich is feeling pretty average so far but hoping to come good in the next few [...]

I return trip from Korea went pretty smoothly and the most difficult trip of the year is forgotten! Don’t get me wrong I felt like crap when I arrived back from Asia hTe jet lag can be really tough, I’m not sure my body really knew where it was when I arrived back. I have [...]

Girona is nice, really nice. Accommodation and food is really good which sort of partly makes the trip in my eyes. As long as it’s a nice interesting area and the suns out, I’m happy and we have that as well. We are under an hours ride from the Pyrenees here so a lot of [...]

Been in Lanza for 5 days. Its been great, lovely temperature (for winter).  These Spanish don’t even know what winter is I don’t think! Nothing special out here, just very consistent training, hitting the important sessions and taking it easy in the recovery. Today we rode with Dave Mclean.  Don’t think I have ever ridden [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

I’m really enjoying being back into my training.  It’s probably been the smoothest start I have had so far, which is great because that’s how I need it to continue!  The weather has been amazing recently up here, it’s starting to get cold though but as long as the suns out, it’s a pleasure! I [...]

Really keen to get my hands on one of these! Looks like a really cool bit of kit, I have heard amazing things about it. I am speaking to the guy from Normatec tomorrow to see what we can do I think it could make a big difference for recovery! You need every advantage you can [...]

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 [...]

I mentioned a month or so ago that Loughborough was changing. It’s been a controversial decision I guess…I just read 220 Magazines release all about it.  Well, my Dad told me about it! (Jodie Stimpson is not very happy!) I had an fantastic season coached by Rick Velati, incredibly consistent, and although I was obviously overshadowed [...]