When you are not in ‘an every day performance environment’ with team mates or a coach at every session you need to ‘create situations’ or surround yourself and interact with as many positive experts as you can. Join in with athletes from other sports, ‘take’ from others, learn from others. Find your limit every so [...]

    That is the rule isn’t it ? The day you think you have recovered from an injury … take a couple of days off !? Pleased with myself that I have been able to hold myself back. Grateful to the work and support of the Physios at the Irish Institute of Sport. Mindful [...]

  How is your Condition ? I thought that was ‘cycling chat’ ?  But when I asked a dude that question as we rolled out he looked at me as if I was a Triathlon Fred  . . . Maybe I shouldn’t have tried to put on a Belgian accent ? 

It was almost as if they knew it was my Birthday and that I was going to jump into some bike races . . . a big box marked ‘S’ arriving mid week. A Birthday week and what better way to celebrate than with some beer and cake before chewing on my handlebars. A year [...]

  Blog entries and ‘doing stuff’ have a positive correlation coefficient – Would I be correct in saying that? Those entries being directly proportional to maybe your frequency of racing, your motivation, injury status, or how many times you are able to take a nice a photo whilst training – or – sometimes, as it [...]

  It’s that deliberate pace that challenges my mind. It is during that deliberate effort that I find myself talking to myself  . .  although talking to myself is nothing new !