Human Performance Unit Athlete Blogs

Centre for Sports Science Support & Physiological Testing at the University of Essex


Race Team Team Members Athlete Blogs Join The Team	Home > Race Team > Athlete Blogs Athlete Blogs In this section we will be adding a selection of blogs from members of our current team so you can see how they are progressing! These highlights give you a flavour of what they are up to, for more info clicking on the title links on each article will take you to the athletes blog.
	2009: European ‘amateur’ champs 5th in age group	2009: Ironman Switzerland 9hrs 29mins
	Matt Ellis Triathlete British Triathlon Website Iain Dawson crossing the line with a 'pushy' guide http://www.britishtriathlon.org/index.php	Laurence Pidcock Triathlete Mukamuka Munter Madness!! Perhaps there's some fitness coming back - 3rd place and a race I'm proud of... Description of the Munter from the BetterThanTV website - "Keen on a real off-road run that is worth the bragging rights on the Monday? Do you miss that feeling of the lungs searing while you are gasping for air and the legs screaming with lactic acid while knowing that you are still less than half way to...

	2009: national ‘amateur’ champs 2nd in age group, 7th overall, London triathlon 7th ‘amateur’, Norwich triathlon – 1st	3rd national youth champs Hyde park, 3rd Blenheim youth race
	Oliver Milk Triathlete PB & Injury - highs and lows Well this could very easily be described as bad timing. I'd had a relatively solid 4 weeks of training after London tri, but unfortunately seem to have aggravated something in my ankle a little over a week ago which has put me completely out of running and in a bit of discomfort on the bike. With Budapest coming up next week this really wasn't what I was after, but will just have to see how it t...	Alex McKibben Triathlete The season so far Well its taken me a while to get warmed up this season but at last I delivered a hint of the kind of performance I've been looking for at the Lakeside triathlon. This was my first attempt at a sprint distance triathlon and I placed 1st female and 9th overall. Although I won both Fritton and Waveney triathlons earlier this season, and placed 4th at the National Duathlon champs, Lakeside was the fir...

	Member of three woman great Britain team selected for European youth championships, regional junior champion
	Becky Hewitt Triathlete First tri of 2010! I headed off to the Cotswolds on Saturday (8th May) for my first tri of the 2010 season. Dave said that it would be wise of me to do a warm up event at the beginning of the season and this was the only one I could find with places still available. The weather was definately not ideal. It had been cold all week and the lake was currently around 11 ÌŠC. Fortunately I had done a few weeks of open wate...

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