Most of our #TeamTCUK athletes work full-time and more than understand the difficulties of balancing the demands of their day job with training. But there's one athlete, Jo Sutton, who has a little more to contend with than most. Never work with children and animals, right Jo?!

Working full time and juggling triathlon is common place amongst a lot of triathletes but there are certainly aspects of my job that don’t go hand in hand with the sport.

After an hour's delay to the start due to thick fog, #TeamTCUK athlete Mike Senior took this ever popular race by the horns and definitely didn't hang around on either the swim, bike or run leg!

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Corned Beef Hash was something of a staple in our resident nutritionist and founder of Real Food Func, Jon Hodgkinson's, kitchen growing up. As much as he still loves the processed corned beef dish, he knew after making this from the remnants of his fridge the other week it would become the top trump of hash dishes from now on!

Time and time again we come across triathletes who have spent small fortunes on improving their swim and bike performance. Swim analysis can be vital to improving your swim and highlights the key areas to work. A new bike or a bike ‘fit’ is commonplace among triathletes or an upgrade of wheels or a more aero helmet - the list is endless!

However, when athletes have a poor race or find they didn’t quite achieve what they are capable of, it is more often than not down to the run phase of the race.

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With “super support from crowds” #TeamTCUK athlete, John Percy, describes the Royal Windsor Triathlon as a real UK classic. We’ll blame the very early start on the fact that he lost his bike in T1 and T2 - great racing John!

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Good, my training was pretty consistent and I was looking forward to it. It is a very early start, and you have to rack your bike the day before – so in many ways the logistics were the most challenging!

#TeamTCUK athlete, Niall Duncan, took part in the second ever IM70.3 Edinburgh. Well prepared for his race with some surprising (for Scotland!) warm, sunny weather, Niall powered his way through a calm sea swim, a hilly bike and half marathon to complete his very first 70.3 race in just over six hours.

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#TeamTCUK QoM and AG-winning triathlete, Jo Sutton, headed to Morzine at the beginning of June with several of her TCUK team mates for our annual training camp in the stunning town of Morzine in the French Alps. Verdict? She'll be back for more next year!

I hadn’t planned on going on two triathlon holidays this year but with feet just seconds on the ground following from Team TCUK’s trip to Lanzarote earlier in the year, I found myself booking onto TCUK’s Morzine training camp with Buzz Performance in June.

Back in September last year we ran a competition with 220 Triathlon magazine to celebrate the launch of the our new website.

The prize was a season’s worth of coaching with Triathlon Coaching UK and out of the hundreds of entries 200 received, Nic Lydford, was selected at random as the winner.