Having completed a race course reccie last weekend on my TT bike, I then found out that the qualifiers were going to be draft legal, and on the modified bike course (21.2km on the not so lush and smooth new tarmac), oh well! I have never done a draft legal event so I was very excited about this but totally…
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All Nations Sprint Triathlon
Allie’s first race of 2022, warm up pre Eton Sprints weekend. First race of the season and my ‘mojo seeker’. Having spent 3 months not training due to a combo of study, foot injury and the dreaded ‘Rona’ virus promptly followed by shingles, I wasn’t sure if it was a bit silly attending this race. Then again it was a…
Outlaw Half – Nottingham
Emily’s first middle distance of 2022… Outlaw Half Ironman I entered this with one goal – to serve as a recce ahead of the full Outlaw Ironman in July. Arriving at Holmepierre Point on Saturday took me back to doing the National Relays there about 15 years ago! My campsite was 7 miles from the start. Not insurmountable but when…
John races the Lapland Arctic Ultra
So where do I start with a race report on this one? So many lessons learned: Lesson 1, never drink loads of beer before committing to an event! We started the epic journey with a compulsory cold environment survival course of 4 days – absolutely key to getting to grips with some of the finer details of not becoming an…
Emily takes on her first IM Branded event! Weymouth 70.3
Weymouth 70.3 Sunday 19 September 2021 This race has been a long time coming. It began as an entry to Stafford 70.3 in 2020, then became Weymouth 2020 and then Weymouth 2021. As I sit here I’m still not sure that it even happened, it all feels very surreal. The atmosphere in Weymouth was buzzing. Two thousand or so triathletes…
Boxend Standard distance Euro qualifier (Allie)
I foolishly went into this race fasted…..long story but suffice to say Friday nights Chinese was a foolish choice as I never left the house yesterday for fear of, well you can all guess! So my diet yesterday was a crumpet and a bowl of pasta, woke up at 5am and was going to not bother but then remembered what…
Emily takes silver medal and British Sprints Championships
Box End Sprint National Championships 4 September 2021 Genuinely entered this as nothing more than an opportunity to re-awaken the legs after last months Ironman and before Weymouth in a couple of weeks time. Night before race spent camped in my son’s room and up and down with a little boy who felt sick after eating too much toad in…
St Albans Sirens Swim the channel (Leanne’s Report)
I’ve still not really processed the fact that, less than a week ago, I swam from England to France as part of a four-woman relay team. I wasn’t planning on writing a “race report” – it wasn’t a race – but feel I need to do something to help me process the 12hours 20minutes of team swimming. Plus the preceding…
St Albans Sirens swim the English Channel
The backstory to what made me do something that had never even been on my radar a year ago! December 2020 was a real turning point for me – so much happened in that month that changed my entire outlook and plans for 2021. Back in 2018 I had glandular fever, followed by shingles, followed by tonsillitis – every month…
Midnight Man (Ironman distance) – Emily Taylor
Getting carried away I had always planned to do an Ironman at some point but promised myself that I’d get all the children into school first so that I had time to train properly for it. All four kids are not at school yet. I hadn’t had the time to train for it properly. I’d trained to Imperial Centurion distance…