For many cyclists and triathletes, we are now approaching the early part of the racing season and even though that means some hard racing in the cold and wind it is often most welcome after a long winter of training. Hopefully everyone has been working on their base fitness and getting a few efforts in over the winter. And hopefully you have an outline plan in place for the season goals so I thought it would be worth talking about what sort of training would be ideal for this

William, we saw you join Team Bottrill in 2018, what has that been like since coming aboard? I joined Team Bottrill midway through the 18 season to see how much further i could go Previous coaches i had used was good, but i felt i had more to give and i needed someone with knowledge and experience to bring me up another level, that someone was Matt, he is a legend of the TT scene and the Team is at the top of their game in the UK. After the first consultation with Matt I kn

We’re well past the halfway point of Winter training and now less than 12 weeks off the event and thankfully I’ve managed to stay germ free and avoided all of the bugs that go around at this time of the year and therefore have had no interruptions to training as yet. Things are currently going to plan and I’ve been feeling good, gradually increasing my time in the saddle and also working on climbing technique, partly on the turbo due to the lack of mountains or climbs of any

Time for a catch up with George Fox, who handles our professional bike fitting and is also a coach here at MBPC! '2018 was a bit of an underwhelming year on the bike, it started well with good form but a crash at the end of March left me recovering for a few weeks before getting back into the swing of training again mid April. As May hit the legs had sure enough come back but at this point my overall health started to decline. Day to day tasks became extremely fatiguing and a