I’m the first to admit, sometimes I find swim training tedious and well, a bit boring. But it’s a necessary evil if you want to be a...

There's no doubt about it, Mallorca has some of the best descents a road cyclist could ever ask for, from Sa Calobra to Puig Major and...

Ever since the first pictures of the then as-yet unannounced Oakley Flight Jacket sunglasses leaked onto social media a few months ago, I...

To paraphrase a certain song really badly, “I rode an S-Works Tarmac SL6 and I liked it”… Granted it was only for less than 12 minutes,...

I’m not sure if my bike has the longest name out there, but with a five-word name, it has to be up there. I guess that’s a testament to...

I have to admit that sportives aren’t my thing. Maybe it’s the image of a collection of old men in loose-fitting lycra on bikes with...

With my two opening races of 2018 both cancelled or postponed due to weather (first snow, then torrential rain), a late entry to Newbury...

When I decided to get into triathlon, the first bike I bought was a £700 Wilier Escape with an 18-speed Campagnolo Xenon groupset. After...

If, like me, you can’t function let alone face the idea of training in the morning without a hit of caffeine, Point Blank thinks it has...

With a handful of unused holiday from 2017 that I had until the end of March to take, I headed out last week to the warmer climes of...

Edit June 2021: I've got the new 2021 TCR frameset and you can read the review over on The Sartorial Cyclist. In cycling terms, the Giant...

This blog should really be titled “learn from my mistakes”. As you will see, even a ‘seasoned’ triathlon Age Grouper can still make a...

Road cyclists take pleasure in criticising us triathletes for our poor bike handling and inability to ride in tightly-packed bunches. ...

It was all going so well. At 69km into the bike leg of the Cotswold Classic I was comfortably in the top ten, having ceded ground to a...

So, once again, I’ve left it too long between updates. Although the definition of ‘too long’ is something of an assumption on my part!...

If there's one luxury I don't enjoy when it comes to triathlon it's consistency. Or rather, if there's one thing about my triathlon...

Runderwear takes advantage of new seamless knit technologies (you might have already seen this on some trainers and other sports apparel)...

Having spent all summer riding a Giant Propel worth more than £3,000 and an S-Works Shiv, I was worried that the Contend was going to...