Having made the decision to at least look at the options around the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic triathlon I recently travelled to two ITU World Cups on the hunt for some ranking points and good performances. The first was out…
Great North Run
The Great North Run is one of the largest half marathon in the World with 57,000 entries this year. Like the London Marathon in April, I was lucky enough to gain a place having deferred from 2017 due to the…
Superhero Tri
Jill and I participated in the Superhero triathlon at Eton Dorney on 18th August. We were racing for Scope with Jill taking on the half superhero challenge (400m swim/10km bike/2.5km run) and I went for the full superhero (750m/20k/5k). The…
Paratri National Champs
Having recently competed at the ITU Long Distance World Championships I wasn’t sure if it was a good idea to race at the national championships or not. On the one hand I wanted to support the event, especially since Arctic…
World Multi-sport Championships
Matt Ellis and I travelled out to Denmark recently for the ITU Multi-sport World Championships. We had decided to take on both the Aquathlon and Long Distance triathlon events during our stay on the island of Fyn. The Aquathlon was…
Fritton Triathlon
Matt Ellis and I decided to do Fritton standard distance tri on Sunday 17th June in preparation for the upcoming multi-sport World Championships during July. The 1500m swim, 39km bike and 10km run would be ideal to get back in…
2018 Para National Cycling Championships
It was a double header for the weekend of 9th and 10th June with the British Paracgcling Time Trial Championships on the Saturday and the Circuit Road Race Championships on the Sunday. Jack Peasgood was piloting for both races having…
General Update
As usual we have been beavering away with one thing and another. Here’s just some of what we’ve been up to lately: – 28th April – Swimathon 1: Jill organised two relay entries for our Beacon tri team, each covering…
Race Report – Arctic One Paratri
Bank Holiday Monday (28th May) and I was back at Dorney Lake for the Arctic One Paratri festival to tackle the Open Para Sprint event. Two years ago I had raced to the win with Nick Beer. This time around…
Race Report – London Marathon
It’s Wednesday 25th April – 3 days after London Marathon and my legs still hurt a fair bit. Post race I’ve found it best not to sit still for too long as it only makes it harder to move again…