A really quick post as I got back from France late last night and need to be in Loughborough this evening and still have a bike and a run to do before I go.

I finished 16th in Eguzon, normally not a great result, but after the last few weekends I was quite pleased. The course was insane, the picture above shows one of the flatter sections of run. The bike didn’t have more than 30m of flat in it and most of the run was cross country. I led the swim and got into a break of around 20 guys on the bike. Compared to the last few weeks I felt good on the bike and sat comfortably with the  group. On the run I hadn’t brought my fell shoes and was still a bit tired, but did enough to be first finisher for my team. We are now two points off making the triathlon eqiuivilant of the play offs, so the next race over an Olympic distance in Vesoul is going to be really important.   

I’m looking forward to a weekend off next weekend and i’m already really excited about London!!

From Holten I travelled down to Lemgo with Flemming Neuman and my German team. The Lemgo squad is strong, with double Olympian Lucy Zelenkova doing the coaching and athletes like Garhard Wolfhard from South Africa and Mike (whos second name I cant remember but who finished 4^th at Ironman Roth and rides like an animal) in the squad. I was looking forward to spending a week with the group and experiencing a bit of Germany.

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I’ve been having a look at a few athletes website recently, and it’s funny how people talk about getting the positives out of bad races and using them as a learning experience. I guess people want to keep sponsors happy and give out a positive image. Well, my last few weeks have been pathetic and embarrassing, and that’s that.I can see what has gone wrong in each race, but its more the position I’ve got myself into that annoys me, I should have seen it coming and plenty of people told me it was about to. I ended up making promises that have meant dragging my ass all over Europe for the sake of a couple of hundred euros. What I’ve found over the last few weeks is that travelling messes you up, and once you’ve got sick from travelling and are still committed to racing it’s a very slippery slope that’s tough to get off. Still i’ve done my race report below and posted the one from munich above.

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