Category: Blog
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September: Global Success! Pt.1 – European Youth Triathlon Championship Kitzbuhel
With September holding two significant races I’ve split the two across two blogs, with the first an insight into my race recap of the European Youth Triathlon Champs, representing Great Britain in Kitzbuhel, Austria, against the top athletes from countries across Europe. European Youth Triathlon Championship – Kitzbuhel, Austria 📍…
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Nutrition REVIEW: Veloforte Energy Gel (Riba)
Nutrition Category: Energy Gels In my first nutrition review of more, I will be bringing to the website over the coming months, I’m starting with the (Riba) Energy Gel from Veloforte – a natural energy gel I’ve been using for my recent international racing, being both natural and Informed Sport…
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Delivering a Top International Performance: 6th at European Triathlon Junior Cup Izvorani!
Individual With a large field and strong athletes, I lined up ready to start my debut ETU Junior Cup, in Romania, racing up a category and looking to deliver a strong performance. Having arrived later on the Wednesday, I had a couple days to do a few bits of exercise…
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Shaping up for International Racing – European Cup, European Champs and XTERRA Worlds
This month has been less of the big races, and more prepping and shaping up with some good consistent training for some big international races I have coming up, now confirmed to represent GB in Austria this September as well as head out to Romania next week racing up a…
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PODIUM at British Triathlon Super Series Llanelli
The weekend after XTERRA UK I headed across to the Welsh coast for the first real triathlon round at Llanelli. With a short pre-race jog the night before on some nice rocky trails around my apartment, I was up and ready the next morning, heading over to Llanelli for the…
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WORLDS QUALIFIED AFTER XTERRA UK WIN
XTERRA Weston Park, was stop 3 on the XTERRA World Cup circuit, for the elites for the first time, and my first time racing XTERRA UK at Weston Park in Staffordshire. With the aim of heading up the night before, ready for my mid-morning start, unfortunately we didn’t end up…
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Springing into April and a Preview into May:
With the beginning of the summer racing season starting in MTB and triathlon last month, this month has been a bit quieter racing-wise but things are feeling like they are and can go in the right direction at the moment. I headed over to Basingstoke for round 2 of the…
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March: Making Progress; British Triathlon Series, XC Running and MTB
After a hiatus due to illness, I was back on racing, starting with my only national xc of this season, at a home English Schools and some longer racing at round 1 of the Southern XC MTB Series. Another last bit of racing ended the month though, competing at the…
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FEB 25: Stepping Up
FEB 2025 has been pretty mixed. One race – a strong result at XTERRA Matterley amongst the Elite/Pro adults – and unfortunately having a small bout of illness not too long after. First off, with the opening cross race of the year and in conjunction with the title, this race…
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REVIEW: HOKA Mach 6 – The Ultimate Lightweight Speed and Performance Non-carbon Shoe?
The HOKA Mach 6 is a non-carbon road shoe, but does it still perform for speedwork and faster running? Despite running predominantly off-road and trail, I race on the road for triathlon except from XTERRA racing. I currently own my second carbon plated pair, both from HOKA, which is the…