Where did May disappear to?! Time flies when you’re having fun, right?! May started off with a really fun ‘Moppy Camp’ down at Salterns Sailing Club, the children’s sailing club in Lymington where I first learned to sail more years ago than I care to remember! There are two Moppy Camps per year where a […]
I am writing this sat in Nice airport waiting for a plane that leaves in 4 whole hours time, having hitched a 4:30am ride on the only car/boat/trailer combination heading in this direction from Hyères… they say that life on the campaign trail seems glamorous and it certainly can be, but this morning not so […]
I had a tough month in February after injuring a disc in my back at the World Cup event in Miami right at the end of January. I spent 4-5 weeks down in Weymouth with the sports science team of physiologists and physiotherapists, all working really hard to try and get me back out on […]
I’m in Miami… well I was! It’s certainly been a challenging few weeks! The day after winning bronze in Copa Brasil del Vela in Rio I was due to be flying home with the rest of the team, but unfortunately I got struck down by a particularly violent stomach bug. It was sufficiently bad that […]
Winning a medal is always a good start to the New Year! It’s been an absolutely brilliant couple of weeks here in Rio. I can safely say that I love this city. We arrived late on 30th December and New Year’s Eve was a manic day. We had a container to offload, boats to sail around […]
As I write this I am currently sat in an aeroplane, a few kilometres up above the north coast of Brazil, en route to Rio de Janeiro. What a difference a year makes! This time 12 months ago I was sat at home, furiously writing, editing and re-editing my mapping project dissertation. With an early […]
Home for Christmas after a cracking, but exhausting fitness camp in Lanzarote. It was definitely a case of eat, sleep, train, repeat! We stayed in a resort called Club La Santa and the facilities were really cool. Running track, windsurfing, stand up paddle-boarding, great gym, 50m swimming pool, courts for pretty much everything. We had […]
I have had a super productive time out here in Gran Canaria. It was so great to get back into my boat after a long phase of land based training. Although I was a little rusty at first it was quite refreshing to see how quickly I got back into it all. Early in the […]
Six weeks of land based training to do before Gran Canaria training camp, and I am officially two thirds of the way there. Making great progress and hitting all the targets, which is always good! The gym in Weymouth has become my second home. I practically live in it. But it’s all ok when you get […]
I didn’t want to write this, initially. But time is a great healer and nothing looks so bad with a good cushion of time. It’s been a busy time since my last blog post. A couple of days after returning from the Europeans in Dublin we headed out to Santander in northern Spain for the […]