Intro

I would like to think of myself as an unselfish person, certain friends may disagree but despite this my primary reason for starting this blog is largely for my own personal gain. I tried last season to unsuccessfully finish in the top 20 in the Welsh National Sprint and Olympic triathlon races, I finished just outside the top 30. My aim for this season is to try and break into the top 20 and while it may only mean shaving a couple of minutes off the swim, bike and run leg this is pretty difficult to do. While all other sensible human beings are tucked up in bed throughout the winter I will be going through the back catalogue of Blackadder spinning the pedals on my turbo trainer, why Blackadder, well I really need something to keep me sane while in essence sweating rivers and going nowhere.

My aim is to use this blog as a way of recording my progress over the year to see whether it is possible for a (very) average age group triathlete to break into anywhere near the top 10 within a year. I know it will be very tough, not necessarily the training but the keeping of the blog – thinking that it will only last a matter of months. I have already been informed by my closest friends whom I have known for over 20 years and being only 29 this is a large proportion of my life that they think it unlikely that I will keep up with the blog. If they have doubts about my ability to keep an uptodate blog then it is at the very least going to be v tough!