It's been a couple of weeks since I was seriously ill with man flu but I'm well on the road back to recovery. I'd taken it easy over the last week or so as I've been training solidly throughout summer and had started to feel a little run down, so thought best to recharge the batteries with a little light training, lots of rest and the odd duvet day. It seems to have done the job as I was all fired up for the weekend training camp in Hayes, outside London, which was also to e

It's been a couple of weeks since my last blog and a big part of that has been spent in bed with serious man flu. I should have spotted the early warning signs when a couple of my team mates had the same thing and I just thought it had past me by - but oh no. So with a heavy cough and sour thought, training went out the window but at the begining of last week, I started to feel a little better. This weekend saw the latest round of the GB roller ski series. It was a 5km fast

Well not that its been much of a summer weather wise, but next week I head back to school. The Scottish schools break up earlier that the English schools but the downside is that they also go back earlier too. This summer hols have flown past quickly and when I look back over the past few weeks, its been pretty full on training, certainly for the past 4 weeks. I kind of feel I'm going back to school for a rest. That said, it's going to be a busy six months as I juggle schoo

After nearly 3 weeks of solid training, I turned up at this morning's session at the Huntly Nordic Ski Club expecting to see one or two teammates for our usual Sunday session. As it turned out, I was the only one who made it - so managed to get some one to one technical training from my coach Alex Standen on my Classic technique. For those that don't know, Classic is the more traditional method of XC skiing and something I'm not that great on - I much prefer skate. However, i