18/01/2026
Meet Dave Taylor.
And after a great season last year, please have a read of his season review with some fantastic results Welldone Dave and goodluck for this season 🏊🏻🚴🏼♂️🏃🏻♂️
Embracing random I took on both long and short course races this season, chucking in the 200k Dirty Reiver gravel ride and some involuntary tumble turns in Cornwall’s surf to keep my body guessing.
Two trips to Spain for middle and long distance championship races delivered two top-ten results, above expectations and leaving me wanting more. At times it was like racing inside Satan’s jockstrap with 37 degree+ readings on the ubiquitous neon pharmacy thermometers. With heatprep normally relying on Evesham leisure centre’s tepid sauna, I was (unlike humanity) saved by climate change as our hot summer allowed me to execute hard sessions at the hottest parts of the day.
My ever tolerant family continued to enable the obsession and like a faithful stray, my bike followed us wherever we went. ABT as no one has ever said (Always Be Training).
With the summer done, I rehabbed my creaking body, and bathed in beer for a few weeks before shocking my legs into short course shape.
It was great to race with mates at Barry Island, Perranporth, and Thruxton (even when they beat you!) and to cap it all I managed to win the English sprint duathlon title for my age group.
Thanks to everyone who has supported me and apologies to anyone that I’ve neglected.
What’s next? Probabaly poverty. With 4 overseas championship races this season I’m raiding savings and pleading forgiveness for my growing carbon footprint. Do you think Red Bull need a grey haired aging triathlete on their roster?
Seasons’s age group results (open 50-54) 👴:
/ Middle distance Euro Chanps Pamplona - 6th
/ World Long Distance Champs Pamplona - 5th
/ Barry Island sprint tri - 5th
/ English Champs Sprint Duathlon Thruxton - 1st
/ Perranporth STD distance - 4th
