James Allen

Well all done and dusted! Great race, what a triathlon, I am still buzzing. The cycle made it for me. Drafting isn’t allowed in the scottish border races that I have taken part in the past but today everyone was flat out drafting and what a difference it makes. Here is a short summary of [...]

Home for 10pm last night and In our pits for 11 ish. Should have been earlier but weren’t that tired. Anyhoo, 5am came round way too quick for my liking, quick shower, kit check, tri suit on and a leisurely cycle across to starting point at Marbella beach in Barcelona. Was dark until 8am and [...]

Set of to register today and other than that the plan was to eat well, drinks lots of water and chillax. Below is a picture of the Botanic Gardens we are due to run through on sunday. Barcelona really is a beautiful city. Registration was busy but mainly folkb queueing to hire wet suits. Had [...]

Arrived at apartment which is basic but clean as they say. Bikes are all in one piece and definitely recommend a set of rubber gloves to build the bike again – check the picture out. Attaching this made me think that a little app to crop, rotate, size, blur and zoom into photos then save [...]

Well the trip has been eventful to say the least. After a couple of extra large americans couldn’t get their seat belts fitted Aidan and myself ended up sitting with the cabin crew. Yes we became BA trolley dollies and along with our new colleagues Beverly, Ellie and Julian (who took a particular shine to [...]

A few pics of our bike boxes from Edinburgh Triathletes, ETs which we have on loan for £10 each. Great job, very impressed with them but will wait to see how the bikes come out at the other end in barcelona Another thing to note if travelling is that BA’s oversize luggage policy has just [...]