A "flat/fast course" she said; "a nice way to end the season" she said. Well I'd never heard of 'PW's until now (personal worsts), so it evidently wasn't just me being a wimp. Both I and a lot of GB age-groupers hoping to end the season well in the European Champs, une...

Preparation for this event started back in July after Ironman UK. I went on holiday for a week first of all to Turkey and then when I came back I felt fresh and ready to get back into training. I took the first week pretty steady and then went back into the same traini...

So...I nailed the mighty Zell am See mountain. It was horrible but I seriously surprised myself.
I did start to recover in Austria. Our hotel was very quaint and quiet so we had a couple of reasonable nights sleep.  I'd promised myself to at least get up and do the sw...

Having finished IM France on a high I was extremely keen to commence my training for IM Sweden.

Sweden was 6 weeks after France, therefore my training block was planned to allow for recovery, whilst still maintaining fitness and finishing with a taper.

In 2011 I done a...

Embrace Sports offer Triathlon and Running specific training holidays in Portugal and France (Pyrenees & Alps), with a wide range of holidays to choose from including novice, general, marathon and long distance triathlon holidays.

The company have joined forces with th...

Race Force is now a part of the Challenge Tours network bringing their great travel packages to the UK. Alongside Tri Travel in Austrialia & Race Quest in the US we have an amazingly experienced, energetic & enthusiatic team to make your Challenge travel experience a r...

Team Race Force are having their end of season wrap up at Challenge Paguera and would like to invite you to join us.

In its first year the event is hosting the ETU middle distance championships and what a setting for it. A beautiful sea swim from the Playa Tora, a 2 la...

I entered this race last year 3 weeks after Austria, whilst lying on a sun lounger on holiday. I envisaged a dry warm day with clear blue skies, this was not at all distorted by the lunch time sangria I had consumed earlier.

The months flew by and after a few set back...

My taper for Ironman Nice started with the completion of Bala Middle Distance Triathlon, however I had goal of beating my previous 70.3 PB of 5:19 which I had got at Bala in 2011, so I wanted to go all out for my last race before Nice.
 
When I raced Bala in 2011 the w...

Last weekend was my first race of the 2014 season and also for my first race as part of team Raceforce.  

The weekend before the race, my bike and bike kit was collected by Kate and Grant.   I had arranged for collection to be from my friend Claire's house as we had b...