Can I really call this a ‘race report’? It’s not as if I stood on the start ready to push the limits and determined to set a new PB or finish in a certain placing. No, this event was a…

Last weekend Jack Peasgood and I took on some of the best Para-cycling tandem teams in the World at the Manchester Paracycling International track event (24th-26th November). Teams from Great Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Holland, Germany Greece, and Ghana competed alongside other…

The summer racing season is now over and as they say in the TV series Game of Thrones, winter is coming. Before my end of season break (which I hardly felt I had earned or needed after not racing much this…

Swim Serpentine, for those not in the know, consists of a whole day of aquatic fun in Hyde Park, London (16th September). It caters for all abilities, with half mile, 1 mile and 2 mile distances as well as the…

Having managed just one practise session the weekend before in London, David McGaw (Cambridge CC)  and I headed off to Derby for the GP track meeting on 26th August. This was the first time races for Para cyclists had been…

I’ve made a comeback – well sort of anyway! I’ve been working hard on my rehab for several months now after finally accepting I needed a period of rest and recovery to let my back settle. Over-all it’s gone quite…

Prior to my current enforced rest period, this is what I’d been getting up to racing wise: – 5th March – CC Breckland Open 10 Mile Time Trial: First TT of the season – and it felt like it! I…

David McGaw (Cambridge CC) made his competitive debut on the track piloting me around the National Cycling Centre’s Velodrome in Manchester at the National Championships (27-28th January). It’s difficult getting track time if you don’t live near a velodrome and…

Sometimes you just have to tough it out. This was definitely the case at the recent European Middle Distance Triathlon Championships in Walchsee, Austria (4th September). It was nice to have Matt Ellis back on guiding duties for the first…