Iain’s Blog

I’m really pleased to announce two new sponsorship tie-ups for the coming season which some of you may have already heard a bit about. The first is with Tank cycles from Taiwan who make their own range of  Tank branded aluminium frames and also the Matrix range of carbon frames. This is all complimented by a whole range…

Last weekend I paid a visit to Loughborough to help out at the Paratriathlon talent day supported by GE. It was great to be invited to join the group of athletes who had been selected for swim and run trials in order to assess their future potential with Rio 2016 coming into view on the…

Well done to Luke who pulled off a great win in the BUCS (Students) run-bike-run duathlon championships last weekend against some top class opposition. Luke has been putting in some big training weeks recently of up to 25 hours (Students have loads of time don’t they?…but that’s still impressive!) which is clearly paying off even…

The other day I heard that after 119 years my favourite football team, Newcastle United, are to sell the naming rights to St. James’ Park (below. To ‘help’ with this it’s temporarily going to be called the Sports Direct Arena… I can’t say I was overly keen on the idea. It’s always been St. James’ Park and…

On Monday I took a trip to the Foot Function Centre in Great Blakenham near Ipswich to pick up my new orthotic insoles. You might remember from my last post that I visited a few weeks ago for an initial assessment. I thought I would give a bit more information about this whole process. Coming from a cycling background and having…

Well, it’s been an interesting couple of weeks. Last week I eased myself into doing a little exercise again after a short post season break. It was by no means full-on training, but it was good to get active again. I did what I felt like, including cycling to work twice, a 90 minute ride in…

On returning from Spain to open the post we had a timely boost to our triathlon funds (and morale!), which have taken a bit of a hammering this year… Reepham Rotary Club, who we visited a few months ago, have made a very generous donation towards our sporting exploits. We had a great time meeting the club members  and enjoyed a…

As you might know from my recent posts, 2011 hasn’t been a good year. Here’s a bit of a review… After a few 10km running races and the odd duathlon for training I had a solid start to the season with two 4th place finishesin local events during May (East coast and Waveney sprint triathlons). At the…