This is Jen’s story – She will be like many of you. The story of how she actually achieved her goal: As you can tell from the subject line, she wanted to break 3 hours for the marathon. She was a good runner but had failed to dip under her target on 3 separate occasions. […]

When trying to lose some weight the obvious thing to do is eat less or exercise more. As my regular readers will know, whilst I accept this will help especially at the beginning of your journey, there is only so much LESS food you can eat and MORE training you can do. So let me […]

When I was at school I went to see my careers advisor, I had no idea what I wanted to be. He told me to keep my options open. Basically he told me he didn’t have a clue what I should do! At that time I was fat, probably about 3 stone overweight or at […]

I remember a time when nobody really cared whether they were eating too many carbs. Phrases like: “I’m not eating carbs at the moment” Would have seemed, quite frankly weird! But then Dr Atkins came along and low carb hit the main stream.

I know that feeling well. Things are not going as well as you would like training wise, maybe your garmin is telling you lies, maybe the scales are just having a laugh. What do you do? It’s obvious isn’t it? You need to find a way of fitting in some more training and eating less […]

This is something that I’ve thought to myself many a time. A part of me would love to be normal – love to be satisfied with less. I wish that I didn’t have this burning fire inside of me that meant being “normal” was enough. You’re likely the same – otherwise you wouldn’t do triathlon. […]

Yesterday I had been out training and on my return was presented with a box of wooden planks by my wife. “It’s Lottie’s sandpit – can you put it together” FFS! Just when I should have been having my recovery shake and doing a bit of foam rolling – I now had this unforeseen challenge.

It gets to the point where it feels like you can’t possibly fit in any more training. For some that means a max of three times a week, for others it means you’re already doing twice a day. Juggling that with work, family, friends and having fun away from triathlon can seem an impossible task. […]

I love to eat, it makes me feel good. Like most people I have dieted and restricted my intake which isn’t a particularly pleasant experience, especially when you are training hard, ever had that “wiped out” feeling? The more you train, very often the more you want to eat. I get that 100%. This is […]

I am a married man with two daughters and I most definitely appreciate the opposite sex.  That said, in my adult life if there was ever a man who had my attention it was Lance. I know I’m not alone with that – the guy was an inspiration. I remember reading “Its not about the […]