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Sunday 5 January 2014

2013 - what a year!

As I sit here in January I can reflect upon 2013, and what a year it was.

Some great sprint-distance duathlon racing at Dorney Lake in sunshine, a cold Althorp and a torrential Marlow. The season culminated in racing for the GB age-group team at the European sprint duathlon champs in the Netherlands. I came 13th in age-group.

A couple of days after I flew to San Francisco with work and got some good running R&R and some great cycling.

A running niggle escalated to an injury and I ignored it, racing the Shinfield 10km and then I continued until the Grendon sprint tri; my only triathlon outing of the year. Finally I saw sense and took some time off running, investing the time in upping my cycling volume.

The knock on effect was that I would be in no shape for the 2014 duathlon Euro qualifiers which had been moved to autumn. I would live to fight another day!

As the autumn season approached I entered the new Dinton duathlon where I placed the highest ever; 10th overall. My focus then moved to training for a February 14 half-marathon and the impending winter cross-country league. Oh, and another 5km PB early December.

So despite some negatives it has been a great year for me.

My race schedule page has been updated for 2014 and I look forward to starting this new year, racing hard and getting some great results!

Happy New Year!