As you might expect, I had hoped to be part of the 2012 Paralympic Games. This wasn’t to be as far as cycling was concerned and triathlon didn’t get included in next year’s programme which was a great shame as this is…
Dancing on ice?
Well, seems like Luke and myself were right to be cautious last Saturday when we went out for a spin on the Matrix tandem in freezing conditions. Unfortunately several of my former club mates from CC Breckland came to grief on…
Drugs+Sport
I don’t know how many people are aware of this; the British Olympic Association (BOA) has a rule stating that anyone convicted of taking performance enhancing drugs is not eligible for Olympic selection. A few weeks ago this rule was challenged at the Court…
Birthday Weekend
Despite it being my birthday over the weekend, it’s been another busy few days for Tri Team Dawson… Friday After of spot of work as usual I had a short review of my Orthotics from the Foot Function Centre. All…
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…
Website Updates
Keep an eye on the site as we will be trying to find time to update some of the pages over the next couple of months. With new sponsors on board and one or two possibly yet to come, the…
The Matrix
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…
Paratri Talent Day
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…
Luke is BUCS Champ!
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…
What’s in a name?
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…