I-am-Specialized blog

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Worcester Hill Climb TT

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Up at 5am - drive to the bottom of a 15.5km hill - lets see who can get to the top first ….. one of those wild weekends !?

Winter Training in the Summer

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Introducing my newest set of wheels - He doesn’t like going around corners, coming to a halt or taking me anywhere after dark (!) - but I do love him, his name is ‘blue’.

Post Triathy News - Don’t tell Whacker !

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Contrary to what I said on my twitter - this Tractor was not a prize in Triathy ! Maybe though something for the organisers to think about for next year.
Myself and Fraser Cartmell packed up and checked out of the Cartlon Hotel in Athy 3hrs late - admittedly it was more my fault than his [...]

Training - what would Ernesto Gruhn say ?

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

What would Ernie say in this situation ???
He would say ” Hey listen Boykie, you’ve had a great winters training, you just need to start adding to the account again instead of using up any interest dividend”

Toughen Up

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

It was an evening turbo session sometime in the 1990’s ….. note the ‘under cut’ hair style, old school profile tri bars, very dubious blue lyrca and extra weights attached to my top tube - im still not sure why I used to add weight to my bike … if only I had of known [...]

In the coming days ..

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Im into my last weekend here in South Africa and theres a lot to catch up on - in the coming days Ill report on how my 10 weeks of training have went; the characters I have met and the weeks and indeed the season ahead.
My new website has taken a long time to wrestle away from [...]