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World Duathlon Championships – Spain
Saturday the 24th September saw the World Paraduathlon championships take place in Gijon, northern Spain. This run-bike-run event was to be Luke Watson’s first event as a guide and my last chance for success in what has been a pretty bad season. Have a look at luke’s Blog for his report – http://lukewatson90.blogspot.com/ In the…
Read MoreLast chance saloon!
Tomorrow we travel out to Gijon to compete at the world duathlon championships. This will Luke Watson’s first race as a guide so hopefully we can make it a good one. After a terrible season this is really the last chance for some sucess this year… Thanks to Steve Paley, we have a tandem to…
Read MoreWorld Triathlon Championships
Jill, Liam and myself just got back from Beijing a few days ago where we were competing in the World Paratriathlon Championships. We went with high hopes of taking the win and retaining the title I won last year with Matt Ellis. Unfortunately like much of this season things didn’t work out quite as planned……
Read MoreTri-Anglia Club Aquathlon
On Wednesday evening I took part in the last of this year’s Tri-Anglia midweek aquathlons, my second in a fortnight. For anyone who isn’t sure what this event is it’s a swim followed by a run and these have been my first attempt at this slightly unusual event! I managed to find a last minute volunteer from the…
Read MoreGB Paratriathlon Training Weeknd
I recently attended the latest of three GE Great Britain Paratriathlon Performance Squad training weekends held at Loughborough University. These weekends are intended for athletes selected onto the Podium and Affiliate squads to come together as one big team. It is also used as an opportuniry for potential new athletes to join us from time-to-time so they…
Read MoreBreaking News
I had an interesting ride to work the other morning. . . my handlebars sheered off whilst I was doing 20MPH! This sounds dramatic but in reality it was no where near as bad as it could have been. I was holding the hoods of the drop bars and happily riding along through the Norfolk lanes I use for…
Read MoreTri Team Dawson
Hello and welcome to Iain’s blog on Tri Team Dawson. Here I will be trying to keep people up to date with all the triathlon related things i’m up to but for a different perspective, check out the bosses blog by ny wife Jill who is an integral part of my support team. We hope…
Read MoreOlympic torch run
Thanks to everyone who supported me in the bid to have Iain representing Norfolk in the 2012 Olympic torch run. He is through to the next round !!!!!!! Off to London tomorrow to get our Visas – hoping we have all the documents we need Liam……. !!!
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