Iain’s Blog
Race Report – Paratriathlon National Champs
Sometimes, no matter how prepared you feel, luck just isn’t on your side and there’s not much you can do about it. That’s how it felt last weekend in Llanelli at the Paratriathlon national championships. Jack Peasgood was on guiding duties and looking fit, the tandem was pimped and ready to roll and I was…
Read MoreRace Report – Spring Waveney Triathlon 2015
As I’ve mentioned before on my blog, Waveney Triathlon is one of my favourite events of the year. It’s got a nice feel about it and a nice mixture of people taking part and helping out. There’s always some fast guys racing but it’s a perfect event for first timers too. Don’t get me wrong,…
Read MoreDerbyshire 2015
After a super busy period at work it was time for a change, so Jill and headed off to Derbyshire for a week or so as is usual for April time. We were certainly lucky with the weather as it was in the mid-high teens all week with sunshine every day. I even got my…
Read MoreGeneral Update…
I haven’t updated the blog since early March, but that’s not because there hasn’t been anything happening – quite the opposite in fact. If anything I’ve been a bit too busy recently. Work has been relentlessly full-on since September as we are a bit under staffed currently and by a happy coincidence the referral rate to…
Read MoreSponsorship Update
I’m super pleased to announce that all of my sponsors and supporters from last year will continue backing Tri Team Dawson in 2015! This is despite the fact that the Rio 2016 Paralympics now looks to be out of reach and my race schedule isn’t 100% clear as yet – just goes to show what…
Read MoreUCI Newport Para-Cycling Cup
The weekend of 30th January to 1st February saw the UCI Paracycling International Cup return to Newport, Wales. This event was last held in late 2013 when I raced with Neil Rutter. It was a great event so I was keen to dust off my Matrix track tandem and race there again. This time I…
Read More2015 Race Programme
For any budding stalkers out there who might want to follow me around, you can see my planned race schedule for this year by clicking here or on the ‘2015 Events’ tab from the main menu. I say ‘planned’ because it might be subject to change. Following the decision to exclude my category from the 2016 Rio…
Read More2014 Season Review
With one thing and another 2014 was a funny old year really! Here’s a kind of review of some of the highs and lows divided up into the good and bad bits. Bad things: – The last-minute introduction of factoring at the first ITU Paratri of the season – This changed the whole dynamic of…
Read MoreGeneral update
After the disappointment of the Rio 2016 Paralympics decision to exclude visually impaired men it would have been very easy to take my foot off the gas, be lazy, drink beer and get fat. I did do a bit of that, but it’s called an end of season break, and it was REALLY needed! 2014…
Read MoreRio 2016 Paralympics
The aim was to make the GB team and win a medal at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio where triathlon will make it’s debut. That was at least until the 7th October when the International triathlon Union (ITU) announced that the PT5 category for male visually impaired and blind athletes would not be included. See the press release here.…
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