thanks to everyone who helped us arrive in new zealand so smoothly, including Richard our fantastic man with a van who was able to get us to heathrow at a very reasonable price and extremely efficently. his next pick up…
more special olympic news with philip
oh my goodness, we have now heard that philip goodall, another of our special olympics athletes is running the olympic torch today in herts. philip has been a mainstay in our regional athletics squad and we wish him well on…
well done sarah
today I was delighted to hear from an old friend Sarah Simpson, one of our special olympic athletes who will be a games maker at the olympic tennis. sarah competed for GB at the world special olympic games in Eireland,…
Iain heads for the Olympic stadium
I am so pleased to be able to tell you all that Iain has been picked for the paralympic torch relay from Stoke Mandeville to the Olympic stadium. The run is on 28 and 29 august and we will let…
tri team dawson are dutch film stars
you may be suprised to know that Iain, Luke and myself are now featured on dutch TV ! Apparently while we were camel hiking around the desert ( see Lukes blog for pictures), we were unwittingly joining a Dutch television…
a shocking day
thanks to everyone for their support on what has been a dreadful day for team dawson. For those of you who are not aware whilst Iain and Luke were leading at the national champs, a child got onto the course,…
mark mcguigan and the buxton fun run
this weekend we have gone back into triathlon mode with Luke Watson coming to stay and look at the new tandem. After lots of training on saturday and some more photo shoots, we all went to compete in the buxton…
yet more sad news
we are sad to report the death of our naughty cat gizmo. we were woken on friday night to a horrendous noise -a stray cat had come into the house and was fighting Gizzy. Iain got up and chased it…
a desperate end to a desperate season
well – lets think about the positives Iain and lukes cycle time was better than the paralympic german and spanish cyclists – BCF take note! To see Iains legs give way and to be carried across the line in true…
To infinity and beyond – well Spain anyway !
Well what a busy few days since our return from China! Firstly hello to all the wonderful people we have made out there – I was truely touched by the warmth and generosity of our new friends most notably Jerry,…