So… swimming… Seems like I have been doing a lot of that recently. I guess it is normal with the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim coming up, a 7km crossing of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. And with the #50kinMay challenge I participated in on Twitter. How are things going, you ask? Well, not too bad… […]
In less than 4 weeks I will be swimming across the Chesapeake Bay, in the great state of Maryland (Fear the Turtle!) in the US. The Great Bay Swim is a 4.4 mile challenge, crossing from one side of the Chesapeake Bay to the other. Traffic is closed, the event is run with the assistance […]
About a week ago I posted that I was torn between my head and my heart when it came to my participation in the UK Paratriathlon Nationals this Saturday. As I attended the BTF paratriathlon day in the autumn of 2010, I have a 50% discount for entry. And with paratriathlon’s acceptance as a paralympic […]
On Sunday we participated in the Suffolk Sunrise 100 cycling sportive, run by and for Action Medical Research. This was our second year doing the 100k. Last year it was cold and pouring with rain – this year we were hoping it would be warm with the rain which was promised. We were lucky – […]
I’m back from over two weeks out of the country – back to London. I’ve often said that home is wherever my heart is – on holiday, my heart was on the bike, on the hills on the ride from Houston to Austin, in Florida as I spent almost two weeks with my sister, bro, […]
I can’t believe that more than two weeks has passed since I completed the MS150 – cycling from Houston to Austin in the US over the course of a weekend. The MS150 was a huge milestone for me – it marked my first (mile) century ride. And it opened up a new mindset for me […]