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Iain ends the triathlon season with a bang !
Iain’s season continues to go to form 2011 style with a crash at the start of the bike leg. Luckily it was the tandem that took the impact and not their heads A trip to the hospital confirmed that some nasty grazes and road rash is the full extent of the damage. I think the…
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just to let everyone know we have arrived safely with no problems except no wifi in the hotel !! Thanks Buster for lending us your lap top !! just waiting to go to the race – all looking good !
Read Morebye bye tandem!!!!
we had to take the wheels out but the tandem has got on the plane !!!!! we have given Liam the nick name of pirish in honour of his awful accent when we were at the europeans in Ireland last year -an interesting combination of pirate and Irish congratualtion to Liam for becoming a first…
Read Morewhats in a name.
I feel we ought to explain a couple of nick names in preparation for the two world championships coming up. Luke Watson is nicknamed Walleee -the reason is that another Luke Watson was an inventor specialising in artificial intelligence so Luke has a robot name in his honour. Lukes partner is Jenny Manners who guides…
Read Moreiain has hidden the hack saw
I have a solution to our tandem transport problem -cut it in two !!! we could then get it on a plane as two bikes Iain could also income generate by riding half of it as a unicycle anyone lend me a hacksaw -ours seems to have gone missing!
Read Moreguiding stars
just when things were at their worst Iains guides have come to the rescue Liam has offered to drive his big van to heathrow airport which will fit us all in plus tandem (I swear it grows in the night) Luke has offered to swap his airplane ticket to me so he can drive and…
Read Moreare we nearly there yet ?
this is normally associated with kids, but this comment has been heard most nights in the dawson house hold here are some of the logistic nightmares we have had over the past two months beijing trip three visas to get which plane will take the tandem at least cost where to buy a tandem box…
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had a lovely evening yesterrday with Nigel Farrow who took some pictures of Iain at Whitlingham lake and came back this morning to take some shots of Iain on the bike. Seems he wants to do a feature on us ! Finished of the evening with a chinese take away to get us in the…
Read Moretandem nightmare
despite our best efforts to confirm that it was okay to take the tandem on the plane to the world duathlon champs, we had it confirmed today by Iberia (thanks Charlotte) that they will not accept the tandem. Having spoken to BA who were flying through, we are now having to fight to get our…
Read Moreiain is a z list celebrity !
Iain and I spent the day in london today getting our visas for china. We decided to spend a little time seeing the london sites with a lovely taxi driver who was also a cyclist. Iain has joined his list of celebrities that have sat in his taxi, including Steve Wright, Denise Lewis and Gladys…
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