Iain’s Blog

I recently posted about Bagman – a new venture providing event support. Well, I’m pleased to say I will be supporting Bagman on a Coast 2 Coast tandem challenge this summer. The event will run over 3 days in August (12-14th) covering approximately 130 miles from New Haven to Sunderland. You should be able to…

The ITU have released there updated rules for 2016. For Paratriathlon there are a few notable changes, especially for the PT5 Visually impaired (B2/3) and Blind (B1) athletes. The key things are: – B1 Athletes must now wear blackout goggles/glasses basically for the duration of the event – This seems sensible/fair to me since the…

2016 is shaping up to be an interesting year for Tri Team Dawson. OK so there’s no Paralympics to look forward to in Rio since my category is unfortunately not included, but there’s plenty of other challenges ahead! I’ve finally bitten the bullet and decided to ‘go long’. Well kind of anyway. I won’t be…

As I mentioned a few weeks ago when blogging about my end of season break, one of the things I did was go to the final night of the London Six Day cycling event. Jill kindly got us tickets for what promised to be a great night of entertainment at London’s Olympic Velodrome. Six day…

Another season has passed so it’s time to look back and reflect upon the relative successes and failures during the past months before moving forward with new plans, aims and objectives. With last October’s decision to exclude my category from the Rio 2016 Paralympic Triathlon it was always going to be a case of seeing…

My 2015 season effectively ended the moment I crossed the finish line at the Royal Parks Half Marathon just over two weeks ago. Since then it’s been a case of having an end of season break. This is how I’ve used the last fortnight: – Paid a visit to the Physiotherapist so he could assess…