My Mum's better than your Mum. Fact.
And I thought triathlon gave us manly figures.....Watching the female shotputters at the European Athletics Champs and all I'm saying is, those are some women (ahem...) you would not want to get in a fight with! My new hero is the 10k silver medallist Chris Thompson. It was so inspirational to hear about an athlete who has had a turbulent career, fell in and out of love with the sport, been
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Big scary changes...
So I promised you a big announcement. Here it goes…
I have taken the decision to split from my coach Chris and will no longer be based at the High Performance Centre in Stirling. I will be going on a trial period in Loughborough for the next couple of months with the view to moving there permanently in September and becoming a full time athlete if it works out.
I would like to point out
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Update from Rio Maior...
Just to confirm I made it through the remainder of my flight back to the UK without doing any serious damage to the woman behind me. Probably for the best really...
The trip however did do a lot of damage to me, particularly my body clock. After 4 flights in less than 24hrs and only 5hrs sleep in the 48hrs following the race I was a jibberish wreck. I became nocturnal, sleeping for up to 15hrs
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Des Moines World Cup Report
The Rock should really have given up a long long time ago….I’m sitting here on my third flight out of four today and it is physically hurting me to try watch ‘The Toothfairy’. I’d even go as far as saying I would prefer some WWF right now to get rid of this. Glee. Big Brother. Even Jeremy Kyle. Just anything is better than this surely.
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