Breakfast Pancake Bonanza
I’m not known as being a good cook (salad is my speciality), nor am I vegan/vegetarian, a raw person or intolerant of anything (except perhaps intolerance) I just like to mess around with flavours and...
View ArticleA.S.O announce women’s race at 2014 Tour de France
Amaury Sport Organisation have announced that a women’s race will take place at this year’s Tour de France. “La Course by Le Tour de France” will take place on 27th July on the Champs-Elysées in...
View ArticleResponse to DfE guidance on behaviour and discipline in schools
This is written in response to the Department for Education’s recent guidelines on behaviour and discipline in schools, in which it states that ‘extra physical activity such as running around a playing...
View ArticleA Response to Parliamentary Commission on Physical Activity
Attached is my response to the UK’s Parliamentary Commission on Physical Activity’s recent call for evidence on increasing participation in physical activity, with parkrun as a case study. It’s rather...
View ArticleEating Disorders in Triathlon: a 220 article
For those who haven’t seen this 220 magazine article from 2013 is well worth a read. Food for thought C 220_282_eatingdisordersV2Final…
View Article4321 Challenge: a recap
After months and months of preparation, ups/downs, broken bones, healed bones, rebroken bones, blood, sweat and a fair few tears it’s so incredibly satisfying to being able to say that we actually...
View Article“What’s your next challenge?”
I’ve just got back from the World Champs in Kona. It was fantastic to watch the athletes battle it out, to achieve dreams, to celebrate success and to mentally re-live my own races on the island. I...
View ArticleTurning the Rwandan Wheels of Development
Sport means so many things to different people. A challenge, the opportunity to push yourself further, to beat your own time, to beat the times of others, to keep fit, to stay healthy, to make friends,...
View ArticleJuggling balls
The need to balance tri training with your career, family, house upkeep, and other obligations is common the triathlon world over: not least because of the time and energy intensive nature of the...
View Articleparkrun: running free
The recent decision by Stoke Gifford Parish Council to charge parkrun for use of Little Stoke park has attracted considerable coverage and discussion in the UK and across the world. I must declare a...
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