Iain’s Blog
Update on British Cycling Talent ID
The bottom line is that it appears I don’t have enough talent to make it to the second stage of the Track2Tokyo programme. I wasn’t entirely surprised and this is why: – I would be compared to Steve Bate who just won a few shiny medals at the Rio Paralympics on track and road. He…
Read MoreBritish Cycling Talent ID
I was a bit surprised recently when an email dropped in my inbox inviting me to a British Cycling Talent ID day on the 30th October. The session will take place on Sunday 30th October at the new Derby Velodrome. It’s part of a Track2Tokyo programme looking for potential athletes capable of joining the GB…
Read MoreRace Report: ETU Middle Distance Champs
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 time in a while. With an interesting course in stunning surroundings combined with some decent…
Read MoreJill’s 2016 Events
Tri Team Dawson isn’t all about my racing schedule. Jill is keeping just as active with her own endeavours again this year, with a few fundraising events already completed: – March 13th: Jill completed the 14 mile Eye2Eye walk from Moorfields Eye Hospital to the London Eye, raising money for the former. She completed this…
Read MoreIronman Norway 70.3
It was inevitable that I’d end up ‘going long’ one day. After all I like a challenge! Before embarking on the full Iron distance of 3.8km swim/112mile bike/26.2mile run one day. it seemed ‘sensible’ to do some Middle Distance events first (half the full distance). I decided to make my middle distance debut at Ironman…
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Two triathlons in just six days. Not too bad if they are ‘only’ sprint distance maybe. However throw in a busy few days at work and whole pile of travelling and it’s quite different. I know because, with Guide Nick Beer, we completed the Artic One Paratri on Monday 30th May followed by the ITU…
Read MoreRace Round-up
Although my early season was disrupted by to injury I still managed to keep quite busy: – 14th February: The Valentine’s 10k run was an event I did last year for the first time. This year I posted an almost identical time, which is OK as I wasn’t feeling overly fresh. Thanks to the organisers…
Read MoreInjury Woes
Moving up to Middle distance/half Ironman races this year I had two main concerns: – Getting enough training volume in over the winter to be competitive Not getting injured I could probably get round most events on pure effort/stubbornness (I did a 12 hour time trial a few years back off the back of a…
Read MoreITU VI Classification Working Group
I recently spent a very interesting weekend in Lisbon, Portugal. It wasn’t for a race (although this year’s European Tri Champs will be held there in May) or even for a mini-break, which would have been nice. My trip was to join a small working group looking at classification of visually impaired and blind athletes…
Read MoreEquipment Update – Matrix Apache
I mentioned before Christmas in another post that I wanted to get various things sorted ahead of the 2016 season. So on that basis I have a new bike – It’s always nice to have some new carbon fibre! It’s a Matrix Apache full carbon frames running an 11 speed Shimano Ultra groupset with some…
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