Hi All, we are heading to the white loch for the south side open water debut. I think its about 12-14c but not really sure. Hoping to get in the water btw 4-4:30pm. All welcome!

Since last week adverts for training peaks have popped up on tinternet. One of them gave me pause for thought and not in a good way. The lady was saying when you dont feel like doing a session then you remember why and she then turns to a pic of full green and grins. If thats your why then its a bit screwed up. Yes it is very satisfying to nail everything and coaches love it but if green tiles become an unhealthy obsession then buy a pickleball racket. Life happens so dont get unhealthy on numbers or widgets. That said here are two pics one of a pure champion the other of Walter mitty training for a DNF

Hopefully people like seeing and hearing who is up to what. This weekend may be the new record for number of combatants ( 21) out daein stuff. We have: GTC Bishpbriggs Tri - Finlay, Catriona, David and Vicky with Sean as RD and Alan as MC for the day Etape Loch Ness - Sean, Mark B, Zoe, Beppo, Fiona G, Felix, Gerard and Darren Dirty reiver - Chris, Jo and Julian with Stevo and Dunc from LTC Kinross Sportive - Alan K, Mark C and Paul Davies 10 under the Ben - Dieter and Coops ( may not start but going up anyway) Hidden Glen 10k - Jill Holyrood 10k - Craig T Hope the sun shines for us all - lets be having it.

We have been conducting tests on athletes in the last month - both remote and in person using lactate. The results have been very informative and allow us to guide training with more detail in the science. Historically this was super expensive and lab based. Now we can get the insights relatively easily. Dorian works with Norwegian coach Arild Tveiten and Corey fed in some info from Jumbo Visma so combining this insight will give us a little edge. If you are interested, I have attached Dorians test details

Need to get new tyres for road bike. Thinking of going up to 32. Any thoughts? Very tempted from a comfort and rolling resistance….?