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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Race day dawned bright and clear with no wind. This was a big plus compared to the previous two years, when the rain and high winds had caused havoc. The organisers had remembered the weather – transition was indoors in the Echo Arena.
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I’m not sure I ever truly expected to race on the Big Island. Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to. As an athlete and fan of the sport it was always the dream and I promised myself and the “Kona Gods” I would not step foot on the island unless I qualified to race.
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Kona isn’t just the race itself, but the whole show – the experience of all that’s good and ridiculous about…
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Have you noticed how not all text alerts are equal? Some ping in, in such a way that you know…
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Ironman is a stupid enough way to spend a day at the best of times – so racing Zurich four…
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On the 10th July, I competed in the Women only Shock Absorber race in Eton Dorney. It was an all…
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Almost as soon as I had crossed the line at Kona last year then I knew my goal for Austria…
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This was my second ‘half ironman’ distance event. The course showed as pancake flat so would never get easier (that’s…
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I did only one standard distance last year, so time to up my game and the first of this years…
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First open water sprint race of the season for me and Judy, a day of sunshine, optimism, a new Tri…
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