Saturday 11 September 2010

Driven To Tri go AWOL

The Summer hits and we dissapear. Not great from a corporate marketing perspective, but in terms of getting stuck in and going fast plus making sure our athletes do the same it's probably a good thing. Once the races start, my priorities are training, recovering and looking after my 10 athletes. Then all of a sudden it's time to start thinking about winter camps, and we need some publicity so i'm back on the blog.

Quick update on the team.

Dibs is being elusive, probably because she's so busy winning everything and is a month off her Hawaii debut.

Pete: Has been sort of retired and rumour has it he's even been wearing a shirt and tie this week, it hasn't stopped him breaking 15 minutes for 5km on the track and finishing 3rd Brit in the mens elite race at the World Duathlon.

The Tobster: Finished 12th at the European 70.3 Champs, got married and is desperatly trying to persuade someone to give him a morgage.

Jim Bob finished 5th at the u.k off road tri champs in Scotland last month after spending most of the summer touring around Europe. He's also considering spending some time in a shirt and tie distributing bicycles.

I've spent most of the summer training in Morzine and racing European cups and french grand prix. I took a weekend off and went to Alp d'huez, where I had my beautiful baby blue planet x stolen and finished 5th in the long course race on a bike I was kindly lent 5 mins before the start. I had the fastest swim and run of the day. I finished off the European trip with the World Sprint Champs and World team champs. I spent 12k in the 3 man break at the sprints before exploding and finishing just outside the top 30. We had a young team for the relay, but it was a fantastic race to do and a great experience. I'm going to keep racing a bit longer and try and chase some ranking points.

Our athletes have also been dominating all over the u.k and abroad, so i'll do a seperate post with some updates on their performaces.

We'll get the provisional winter training dates up on the website in the next week.

below the swim start for the Mens race in Lausanne, I love it there.