2019 review – racing/training summary

2019 is already well and truly in the books, but I've been enjoying my Christmas pudding and mince pies far too much, so there's been a short delay in publishing the much anticipated 'how much training and racing does a semi-mediocre 'athlete' do in a year' post. For those of those of you bored at …

Diss Duathlon – 30/03/2019

Another year, another trip to the flatland's of Norfolk for the highlight of the spring East Anglian duathlon calendar, the Diss Duathlon. Katie and I love going to visit my Nan and Grandad - they put us up, make sure we're extremely well fed, before sending us home with approximately 752 eggs laid by the …

Diss Duathlon – 08/04/2018

It's the one they've all been talking about lately in the press. I've had a reporter staked outside my flat for the past couple of months, trying to glean an insight into how my training has been going. There's no doubt that the Diss race is the premier event on the Norfolk Duathlon calendar (by …

2016 training summary

Quite unbelievably, this blog has now been running for over 3 years, and the little stats page tells me that people are still reading it (well at least opening the page and getting through the first paragraph or so before going back to browsing Facebook). At the end of each year I've done a little …

Jekyll & Hyde Duathlon -30/10/2016

I'd like to say the season is drawing to a close, but I'm not a big fan of an off-season. I'm at my happiest when I'm up early on a Saturday/Sunday morning, flogging myself senseless. It's been a decent year for me, in terms of improvement and performances, and I finished it off this morning …