Category: Sports

Beet-It Athlete 1

Check Me Out!!!

I’ve just been added to the list of ‘pro performance athletes’ on the Beet-It website… Check me out: http://www.beet-it.com/athletes/ Looking good!

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Bristol Harbourside Triathlon Results

The Provisional Results from the Bristol Harbourside Triathlon are out. Click here to download them. So far it is just the finishing times and positions so there aren’t any splits but this is how the people I was with did (In overall order). I’ll update this post later once the full results are out…. [EDIT]...

Me on the Bike 2

Bristol Harbourside Triathlon Photos

Just some photos from the Bristol Harbourside Triathlon yesterday thanks to Jay and Anna. Read the full race report here: Bristol Harbourside Triathlon Race Report.

Bristol Triathlon 2012 – Race Report 4

Bristol Triathlon 2012 – Race Report

We’ve just got back from a great weekend of racing in Bristol at the 2012 TriBristol Harbourside Triathlon. Organised and run by BADTri and 1 Step Beyond it was a well run event that saw 900 triathletes competing in either a Standard Distance or Sprint Distance triathlon. The Sprint Distance Triathlon had been “chosen by...

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Run Comparison

Just a quick little video clip using Ascent to compare my two recent runs around a hilly loop that I do. The blue dot and lower graph represent my run on June 27th 2012 where I beat my personal best for this route by a massive 2 mintes and 5 seconds with a time of...

Fun Facing your Fears of Failure 1

Fun Facing your Fears of Failure

I think one of the reasons that many people don’t do things such as triathlons is that they have a fear of failure. It’s hard to get motivated at the best of times, but if on top of that you think you won’t be able to do it then for many people there just isn’t...

Bristol Harbourside Triathlon Preparations 0

Bristol Harbourside Triathlon Preparations

I’m racing again this weekend in the Sprint Distance Bristol Harbourside Triathlon. This was the race that first got meĀ interestedĀ in the whole Age-Group World Championship thing. I wanted to do a race in or around Bristol again this year so that Brad, Mike and possibly Jay could join in again, but having done the Wotton...

Team GB Top 5

Seeking Sponsorship

As you’ve probably already read elsewhere on this blog, I have recently qualified for Team GB to compete in the 2012 ITU Age-Group Triathlon World Championships. These take place later this year in Auckland, New Zealand. As you can imagine, travelling to Auckland to compete is going to be expensive. Not only are there costs...

Buying Some Time 2

Buying Some Time

As you may know from a previous post, I’ve been doing a weekly time trial on my bike as a way of improving my bike splits and testing my performance. I was due to do the time trial again today and wanted to try out my new aero helmet as well to see if it...

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Go Faster Hat

It was only a matter of time. I’ve already blogged about my faster shoes for triathlons and the go faster purple power potion, so now its time to get aero! Everyone said that I looked a little out of place at the Big Cow Triathlon as the athletes I was racing against had full-on aerodynamic...