Well Saturday was a glorious day. The sun was shining, there was no rain, not a cloud in the sky. It actually felt like spring. Sunday, however, was race day. It was zero degrees and bucketing down with rain, and fairly breezy to boot.

Despite this I got up at 6am and made my way to Dorney Lake for my first ever duathlon. [More]

Suddenly it’s upon me. How does this always happen? I have an idea about entering a race months before it starts, and in a moment of madness I sign up for it. Well it’s now just 4 days away. The weather is set to be cold and raining. Not much I can do about that. But am I prepared? [More]

I’ve read a lot of different training schedules both for cycling and for duathlons. I think that whilst they are all useful, you should really do what works best for you and adapt it to meet your goals and of course the weather conditions. Here’s my current training routine in preparation for my novice duathlon race that is coming up in February… [More]

So, over the last however many years my training has centred around cycling. But now I have all this running to catch up on. When I was a boy I did a fair amount of cross country running at school – mostly because it got me out of rugby! But then I pretty much stopped. I still play football every now and then and its not like I haven’t run at all, but certainly not competitively. With judgement day fast approaching I put on my running shoes and hit the road… [More]

I guess it’s that time of year when people start thinking about New Year’s resolutions. I’m not really a believer in New Year resolutions because the only one I ever managed to achieve was giving up smoking (about 5 years ago). Granted that was a massive achievement but I think I was going to do it anyway, it just so happened to coincide with the New Year. Next year is however, going to be a pretty big year for me.... [More]