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The Inaugural SEC Training Camp - Lanzarote, March 2025
It had taken me 3 years to build up to organising this camp, as I wanted it to be a unique and bespoke camp catering for everyone’s needs...
Apr 159 min read
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Race Pacing Plans: Best Bike Split vs Garmin Power Guide Strategy (By Lindsay Straughton)
Generally, there are 4 methods of race pacing for the bike leg of a triathlon: 1) Level of effort aka watch your heart rate, 2) ...
Jul 1, 20245 min read
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"Fueling Success: A Journey Through Sports Nutrition, and a Personal Transformation"
TL;DR: Overcoming weight issues and sugar addiction. I developed a tailored food plan and macronutrient tracker with a sports...
Jun 4, 20244 min read
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Breakfast Butty in a Coffee Cup, No Bread Roll Please!
I’ll start this blog by saying that it is NOT a diet blog…… it’s a blog about changing my diet and the impact it’s had on my training and...
Nov 12, 20235 min read
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INSCYD Testing
Over the summer of 2022, I was researching options for getting a more detailed understanding of my own, and some of my athletes,...
Nov 13, 20224 min read
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Lakesman 2022
This weekend saw the annual athlete gathering in Keswick for the Lakesman 70 .3 and 140.6 triathlons. This event has been running since...
Jun 20, 20223 min read
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Taper Time
In the lead up to your A race(s) there will come a time when it is appropriate and necessary to reduce the training load and prepare for...
Jun 7, 20225 min read
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Bike Speed
So, after a few conversations over the weekend, and having spent a decent amount of time on my own bike outside this weekend, I thought I...
Apr 18, 20224 min read
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Food and nutrition – 6 months later……….
As we head into another full race season I can feel ‘inner demons’ resurfacing and threatening to derail a nearly solid winter of...
Mar 14, 20223 min read
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COVID Recovery - Lindsay Straughton
At the end of October 2021 I went into a 2 week off season break on the back of a summer of race PBs and the fittest, strongest and...
Jan 15, 20223 min read
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Food for Fuel – twice the bridesmaid, now the bride (and no Imodium required!)
So the end of a journey, or is it………??? For those who have followed my progress, you will know that I started working with Adam Wade as a...
Sep 30, 20212 min read
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Food for fuel – Doesn’t everyone carry a teaspoon in their handbag and stuck in a bit of limbo?
With just ten days to go until my final event of the season which is what I have been hoping to improve my nutrition for I feel a little...
Sep 15, 20212 min read
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Food for Fuel – Complacency and stress – a double whammy!
Returning from the Isle of Wight to my weigh in was a surprisingly relaxed affair, despite the daily magnum 🤷♀️ and no significant...
Sep 5, 20213 min read
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Food for Fuel - Holiday = A Magnum a day and ‘out of the mouths of babes…….’
Having travelled to the sunny Isle of Wight on very late ferry along with a very carefully packed coolbox having planned food prior to...
Aug 25, 20212 min read
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Food for fuel – one step forward, two steps back 🤔 BUT A POOP FREE LONG RUN 🤣🤣
This week was adaptation week so slightly less fuel required and a last minute decision to pop away for a few days meant planning all...
Aug 16, 20213 min read
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Food for Fuel Week 2 – wobbles, ‘poop issues’ and negative self talk, starting was the easy bit!
It would be so easy to say that ‘it’s all going well, problem solved’ and whilst I might wish this was true it is not that smooth a...
Aug 8, 20213 min read
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Food for fuel week 1 – overcoming the ‘fear factor’
Firstly it would be fair to introduce Adam Wade, the man behind the plan………. When I first began to think I had an issue I floated the...
Aug 1, 20214 min read
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Food for Fuel – a body conscious middle aged triathlete’s journey into healthier nutrition
Week 1 – Background Like most of us, when I was younger (significantly……) I could eat what I liked and remain slender or ‘skinny’ as...
Jul 24, 20213 min read
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