After performing atrociously at yet another tournament, Colin Montgomery was quoted as saying: "Well at least I'm maintaining my current vein of form". I feel you buddy! I feel you.

Yes, as we all know consistency is key. Unfortunately though, I am doing an excellent job at being consistently pish. Turns out even though I have put in a good 5 weeks' worth of solid training at Loughborough,

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

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

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