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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This weekend I travelled to Avignon in the South of France for the first race of the Division 2 French Grand Prix championships with my team ESMGO Triathlon. ESMGO were relegated from the 1st division last season and I had been signed up to help them get back in the top flight for next year. I really didn’t know what to expect in terms of the standard of racing, with 80 guys racing at the very top level in division 1 I thought they might have run out of guys by the time it got down to the second division. I was wrong, the top 22 athletes finished within a minute of each other. Read the rest of this entry »

I was 10th overall yesterday and 6th Brit, a so so day at the office.
Since christmas I have been working predominantly on my run speed, so a hilly technical bike course was never going to bring out the best in me.

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It’s always more difficult to write a post after a bad race and I have in the past been accused of taking an Ostritch approach to things hence its been a couple of outings since my last update.

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