ITU World Champs

In case you didn’t see the latest round of the ITU World Championship series in Hyde Park… it’s on the iPlayer for another few days and longer on the download service. Triathlon has received increased airtime of late, mostly in highlight form. It’s great that the BBC showed live coverage of the Hyde Park ITU event [...]

Will Clarke’s blog

Oddly – when considering I read BBC Sport daily - this is the first I’ve seen of Will Clarke’s blog. Will is the British Champ from 2008 and most recently won the Mazda London Triathlon. I watched him compete on Eurosport recently: leading, his bike broke mid-ride, he hit the deck hard, fixed it, remounted, and still won the [...]

Mazda London Triathlon

Sunday 2nd August 2009 It’s 5.15am and I’m driving through the quiet streets of East London; bike, wetsuit and a bag of gear are in the boot. The sight of people standing, laughing, stumbling, and inebriated outside bars and clubs whilst us hardy sports nuts make our way in the breaking daylight to the start of another [...]

Training diary: week 3

With the London Triathlon on Sunday I’d planned in a lighter week than usual. My main goal is the New Forest 70.3 so I didn’t want a proper taper; nonetheless, I want to be sharp and tuned up to put a good performance in on Sunday. A favourite from my Mike Gratton marathon schedule is [...]

London Triathlon

The route and race details are now online for the London Triathlon. I’ll be starting in Wave 3 at 7.30am, along with this year’s number one F1 driver Jenson Button! Jenson managed a 2h22 time in Windsor last year with a 28m swim, 1h10 bike and 44m run; I don’t expect to see much of him [...]

Notes from the pool

In search of lost time, or Swim for Tri session three I made a mistake: after session two with Swim for Tri, I didn’t get back in the pool for four weeks. Big mistake. Okay, I ran the London Marathon, I recovered from the London Marathon, I moved house, I was busy with work, I [...]