2021 marked the first full Ironman event in Poland and with the swim, in the familiar Baltic waters, it had…
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First 70.3 by Christina I booked the Huntsman 70.3 in New Forest early in the season to have something to…
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First 70.3 race of the season for the team was the Huntsman middle distance race in the New Forest. Six…
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If you were to pick a year for your first tri, most certainly you wouldn’t pick 2020… or would you?…
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Competing in this year’s grand final meant a short hop across the North Sea, after three years in North America.…
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I had an amazing experience at my first international race: the European youth championships in Panevezys. After an anxious wait,…
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With the Norseman fast approaching and very little racing miles in my legs this year I was keen on a long distance hit out - whilst there were some 'big' middle distance races available on the perfect weekend (5 weeks out from Norseman)...
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Great to be back in the city where I’d started my working career, long before I’d heard of triathlon, but…
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After my trip to Bedford, the following month found me in Spain – around 2 hours drive north from Madrid…
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The racing season started with a duathlon at the Bedford Autodrome. My aim was to qualify for the European Duathlon…
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MARCH 19, 2017 ~ OPTIMARACINGTEAM Fresh from two weeks of warm weather training out in Aguilas, Gill was the first…
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It felt like a particularly bad dream – you are racing, swimming hard through warm clear blue water (good dream this) the next buoy seems quite far away, eventually you reach it and try to swim round it...
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