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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
St Neots Bit of a moody roller coaster this one. I arrived at registration just as the rain started. It wasn’t too long before I was asking myself “Why?”. I needed to snap out of it to be honest. You live in England, Olly FFS. Kerry said to just try and embrace it, so with … Read more
Strava reckons this was the result of 372 hours, 13 minutes and 2 seconds of training. I am so proud of my body and of my mind for allowing me to endure this, for allowing me to enjoy and to celebrate my first long course triathlon. When I thought about writing a race report I … Read more
Heather’s event report from the Dartmoor classic sportive. Last Sunday saw possibly my only real event of 2021 thanks to a knee injury that has prevented me running since January. We recce’d the route for the Dartmoor Classic over half term and in some ways I’m glad we did because we got to experience the … Read more
This event hasn’t had much luck with covid and now two years of blue green algae making it unsafe for the swim. Either way I was happy just to be racing and a duathlon was better than no race! The first run leg was 3km out and back and I started off with a pretty … Read more
Back in my happy place of middle distance today and what a cracking course the Grafman is. Left home at 4:45am and still seemed to run out of time before the 7am start. 6:45am quick lake dip was really welcome and reassured me that the water temperature was indeed pleasant. Swim course was perfect. Two … Read more