Don’t worry, I’m still here, and sorry for the silence. It hasn’t quite been the start to the year I had I mind. On the first weekend back after my 1st of 3 planned training camps, I was out on a bike ride on roads I’ve cycled hundreds of times. There was some grease/oil on a corner and before I knew it, I came off
Expectations Well, what an eventful season it has been, full of highs and also lows. It’s probably been the toughest year of triathlon I’ve had since I started racing 4 years ago. I had lots of preconceived ideas coming into this season. I figured I’d fly in every race, finishing in the top 3, and
Ironman 70.3 Weymouth is the only race in 2018 I also raced in 2017. I was hoping to have a few more races where I could compare my performance year on year but illness meant I missed Grafman and I didn’t fancy the revised bike course up a mountain in Dublin. Repeating it was the
It has been a busy couple of weeks with two half ironman races on back to back weekends. I entered Ironman 70.3 Gdynia in Poland on the 5th August, followed by the Challenge Turku in Finland on the 12th August. Racing on consecutive weekends at this distance is never ideal so I wanted to see how quickly
1st Ironman completed I still don’t think I’ve fully processed that I have now finished a full Ironman! I think this is partly because I actually didn’t feel as bad the next day as I thought I would do, which seemed to baffle my sister. I surprised myself at how calm I was