It’s been a few weeks since my last race report. Having started the year with a bang with 2nd in the Eddie Soens RR and a couple of time trial wins I was hit with a virus and tonsillitis. I’ve taken a few weeks out to recover and started to build back into structured training. This has been really frustrating and it’s very rare I get ill but at least it is early season. Writing this I’m just on my way to France for the team training camp at Les stables, a dedicated triathlon

After all the truly unpleasant weather over the winter the ladies of Team Bottrill – Vanguard kicked the season off in style on the weekend of 24th March. Triathlete Parris Williams achieved a new 5km PB in a parkrun event with an impressive 20:45. Parris was really pleased with this and said its gave her confidence going into her first sprint tri of the season in a few weeks. Steph Post came 2nd in the Ajax 10 on a lumpy Welsh course. She missed out on first place by 3 secon

Meet our new coach Simon Beldon, see how he came to be one of Matt's coached riders and now onto being a coach himself for MBPC. 32 years is a long time as a Police officer, especially in the world of murder investigation and Organised crime, where the stakes are high when it comes to risk to the public. As a lead Senior officer managing multiple departments across four Police Forces, hundreds of staff and multi million-pound budgets, my time for racing my bike and training f