Iain’s Blog
Race Report – European Championships
On Wednesday 18th April we travelled out to the holiday resort of Eilat inIsrael where the European championships would take place the following Sunday.Israel seemed an odd place to hold this event, even if they are involved in the Eurovision Song Contest and European Champions League Football. Still, it’s interesting to visit new places. We…
Read MoreEaster Weekend
The long Easter weekend is a chance for a good rest, unless you are a triathlete in which case it’s a chance to do some training and racing! I usually go up to Derbyshire with Jill at this time of year. We stay for two week at our friends sheep farm near Buxton with Jill helping with…
Read MoreDiss Duathlon
Sunday the 1st April saw the annual Diss Duathlon staged by Tri-Anglia. It was no April fools joke though as this was a chance to test out the race legs and the new Matrix tandem before heading to the European triathlon championships at the end of the month. Helping me in this venture was Bobby…
Read MoreFinal session at Imperial College
If you have been reading my blog recently, you will know that I’ve been involved with a project at Imperial College London working with the design and engineering students. The project, funded by Rio Tinto, focused on innovation within Paralympic sport with my role being to help inform the students work by give some real world feedback and provide the…
Read MoreVideo from the Tri show
Have a look at this quick video from tri247 taken during the the show at Sandown Park the other week: – http://youtu.be/g4UcleyBBOA I will try to get this into my Video Gallery too. Iain
Read MoreThe Triathlon Show
The 10th edition of the Triathlon show took place between the 2-4th March at Sandown park racecourse and Tri Team Dawson put in an appearance for the second year running! Last year was about trying to meet as many people as possible as we were on the lookout for much needed sponsorship. Whilst we could…
Read MoreJames Brown
A big ‘well done’ to my old friend James Brown for winning a silver medal at the Paracycling World Championships last week in L.A. James is a 48 year old Irish rider, who like myself has a visual impairment and races on a tandem. James and his tandem pilot achieved their medal in one…
Read MoreCoaching Update
I’m please to announce that I will now be working with Simon Brierley of Paradise Triathlon Training. Simon is a level 2 Tri coach and is currently working towards his level 3 qualification. He will be helping with some technical aspects of my training. We will be using swim video analysis to disect my stroke technique…
Read MoreRio Tinto Innovation Project @ Imperial College
Yesterday I took a trip to London to join a group of design and engineering students at Imperial College. This was day two of my work there having also attended on Tuesday last week. So why was I there? Rio Tinto is one of the Olympic and Paralympic sponsors for London 2012. They are a mining…
Read More220 Triathlon Magazine Article
As some of you will now be aware, this month’s 220 Triathlon magazine includes a 5 page article about Tri Team Dawson! I thought you might like to know a little more about how something like this is put together, at least from the athlete’s perspective anyway. The article was created by Photographer and journalist Nigel Farrow.…
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