2009: the Big Review
Last Saturday’s Tour of the Pennines was my last endurance event of the season (and what an endurance event it was!). I’m now having a fortnight off all training to let the aches, tweaks and niggles...
View ArticleBottled it: season over. 2010 Season Review
The weather forecast for the Oulton Park Duathlon was truly awful and my waning motivation for racing was being sorely tested. Sure enough, when my alarm went off at 5:45 on Sunday morning all I could...
View Article2011 – character building
For the 3rd season in a row my race season was dominated by an Ironman race. Where the season differed was in the build up; I raced more triathlons, including a half ironman, and did fewer cycle...
View Article2012, it’s a wrap
Looking out of the window the skies are dark and the rain is pouring down. It doesn’t seemed to have stopped for a week. Last week we had a whole months worth of rainfall in 24 hours. All in all it’s...
View Article2013 – A funny old season
The 2013 season for me was very like 2012 in many ways. For the first half of the year I was still trying to recover from my achilles injury of the previous year. Despite long periods of doing no...
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2014 Season Review
After the 2 previous seasons where injury had limited my races I was approaching 2014 with a renewed sense of optimism. 2013 saw me finish only one triathlon (Henley Half) and 2012 was similar....
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2015 – The Toughest Year Yet
2015 for me was all about returning to Ironman racing. After 3 seasons of half ironman and Olympic distance racing I felt I had recovered sufficiently properly from my Achilles problem to up the ante...
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2016 – a solid if not spectacular season
2015 had been all about returning to Ironman racing, and at the time I reckoned it to be my toughest season yet. To top that experience I had decided that 2016 would be another year of Ironman, but...
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2017 – could do better
I’m done for another year. The race bike is booked in to Steve the cycle mechanic for a pre hibernation fettle, and all thoughts of squeezing in a late season cycle sportive or half marathon have been...
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A Topsy Turvy Year
2018 turned out to be quite different to previous years. I managed to stay largely injury free possibly linked to the fact that I didn’t compete in a half-ironman or ironman race for the first season...
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The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
I haven’t done any cycling or running for 5 weeks now on account of my back injury, so I might as well write my season review. Progress is being made, slowly. I’ve seen my GP and had some physio and...
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The weird one
Looking back, everyone will have their own particular memories from 2020, their own particular stories, and their own particular interpretation of events. Whatever those maybe it can certainly be said...
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2021 – A Second Year Of Weirdness
With 2020 being the year of the pandemic, there was a lot of hope that 2021 would see the return to something like normal. Both my postponed races from 2020 had entries rolled over to 2021 meaning that...
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2022 – Relighting The Fire
After 2 seasons of lockdown, race cancellations and deferred entries, surely 2022 would allow us a return to some kind of post-Covid normality? My race year was already largely set in stone, with a...
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2023 – Back Down To Earth
It was always going to be hard to beat 2022. Last year I achieved personal bests at Ironman and Half Ironman, took part in 8 triathlons (a record) including my first ever relay and qualified for the GB...
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