Category: Uncategorized
-
Challenge Bahrain – 6th December 2014
*** many thanks to Annabelle Rust for this race report *** Having read a lot of tri race reports in the past, I feel quite a lot of pressure as they have been so well-written, witty, insightful and instructive. Plus, I’m not particularly succinct so here’s hoping I don’t bore…
-
Challenge Bahrain – 6th December 2014
*** many thanks to Chris Queen for this race report *** Rise to the Challenge Everything great starts with a vision. The key then is turning that initial vision into reality and matching the power of the imagined. So it was that Challenge Bahrain, the first big internationally ‘branded’ triathlon…
-
Challenge Laguna Phuket – 30 November 2014
*** many thanks to Vicky Arscott for this race report *** Ok so here it is… that all important race report, some of you will be able to relate to it, having done the race yourself, others will be questioning whether that 70.3 race they had on their bucket list,…
-
Challenge Bahrain – 6th December 2014
*** many thanks to Mo Sayad for this race report [from a volunteer’s perspective] *** Thought of sharing my first experience as a technical officer in Bahrain Challenge for whoever is interested… Last week, I read an interesting post that changed the way how my long weekend was planned. My…
-
Dubai International Triathlon – 7th November 2014
*** many thanks to Paul Cox for this race report *** I guess for me the journey to DIT started in January this year when we moved to Dubai. I have been doing triathlon for over 5 years now and was content with training and competing with a like-minded group…
-
Dubai International Triathlon – 7th November 2014
*** many thanks to Chris Queen for this race report *** Just when you think the triathlon scene here in the UAE couldn’t get any bigger, a race comes along that reminds you that it can. And it did. In impressive style. Atlantis glimmers in the background, as transition awaits…
-
Dubai International Triathlon – 7th November 2014
*** many thanks to Nick Boyd for this race report *** As dawn’s first light spread across the beach on a cool November morning, competitors waited nervously for the starter’s announcement, feet shuffling quietly on the sand and hands fiddling with goggles. Looking at their chiselled features and fancy sports…
-
Dubai International Triathlon – 7th November 2014
*** many thanks to Lucy Woollacott for this race report *** I decided I should write a race report mainly because I just love reading them and thought there maybe someone out there who would enjoy my story. I guess all wannabe triathletes have to start somewhere and at least…
-
Ironman 70.3 World Championships – Mont Tremblant – 7th September 2014
*** many thanks to Kara Moddemann for this race report *** I arrived into Montreal on the Friday morning at 10am, and to my surprise they had registration closing on Friday at 4pm, even though the race was on Sunday! One of my former roommates and best friends lives in…
-
Ironman World Championships – Kailua-Kona – 11th October 2014
*** many thanks to David Labouchere for this race report *** Somewhere down near the Ocean a silent piper played an irresistible tune in the darkness. 0445. Garry and I walked quietly, alone with our thoughts in the peace of the night, drawn with a mass of fat-free type-A personalities…
TriDubai 