It’s possibly the hardest part to get right for a race. You do too much and you feel tired and obviously can’t get the best out of yourself, you do too little and you can feel really lethargic and just struggle to go to the best of your ability. I’m now tapering for the UK70.3 race at Wimbleball on Sunday and will be reducing the volume of my sessions, probably to around 50% but will keep the intensity there. In…

It’s been a long while since my last blog update. Basically after my last blog my laptop decided it would randomly stop working on me, at round the same time I also decided to drop a big weight n my phone which as you can imagine made getting in contact with people interesting!  I’ve done a little race report of each of the races I have competed in and in between a brief update I’ve what I have been up…

On Sunday I competed in my first race of the year down in Malaga. I picked this race as it was fairly close considering it was a big race. Well I say fairly close it was still a 300 Kilometre drive and considering I hadn’t drove a car for 4 years I wasn’t even sure I would make it there in one piece for the race! Before I even left for the race the drama started with me managing to…

Before I bore you all to death rambling on about my training and how that the grass is always greener on the other side I need to tell you about these sweet podcasts for any hard turbo session, actually any session where your just spending time in the pain cave these are what you need. Two of my favorite ones are: Best of 2012 (features bits of commentary from the classics and big tours) https://soundcloud.com/velobeats/velobeats-best-of-2012 Oh Trap (if Bradley Wiggins…