2018 has been my best season to date by far but at one point it looked as if I might not even be racing this summer. At Ironman New Zealand unbeknownst to me at the time I raced with a slipped disc in my back. The pain started about 5 days before the race and was a mild sciatic pain, I had never experienced anything like this before and thought maybe it was due to the taper or a bit…
This is long overdue now. I meant to do a race report pretty soon after the race but I was just so disappointed by the result. I’m still really disappointed by my result out in Kona and think about the race pretty much everyday while I’m out training. To be honest I don’t know what it is about the race which gets to me as I gave it my best shot and took a roll of the dice to try…
Back in May I did some Attitude training in Font Romeu, I was hoping that I was going to be absolutely motoring when I came back to Sea level. I came back on the 30th May with Staffordshire 70.3 being on the 12th June. I wasn’t sure how I would react to being at altitude as when I looked at the research there were so many different studies with many opposing views on optimal time to be back at…
Ironman New Zealand Where do I start with this one! First of all I would say the overwhelming feeling is relief, relief that nothing went wrong and that I was able to race to the best of my ability. A lot of you that read this on a regular basis will know that on the 30th December I had a bike crash where I ruptured my ACJ and broke my collarbone, the rupture was very bad and was a grade…